this is the same reason knocked out people on the street. each resident of the country received a guide, how to survive in a crisis, by the way, the author was an expert rescuer, who has already proposed switching to creative toilets and his own bag and wrapping it with electrical tape in germany, while more than 2 million people receive help from food banks. individual cities, are forced to organize warm places for those who cannot afford a communal apartment and heat in apartments news of the european energy market according to bloomberg now looks like this germans considered as fuel. horse. manure berliners fear that the energy crisis will force them to cut down trees in a city park in france psychosis around wood pellets demand has increased by 50% the sales of stoves have also skyrocketed. in hungary, the export of pellets was banned, in addition to everything, state regulation of food prices was introduced; the inflation rate in estonia is more than 20%; in lithuania, it is more. 22.4% latvia over 21 poland over 18.8%.

record inflation in germany, britain and other western countries in belarus, prices, as they were and remain under control, and top-level economy is stable. exports, especially agricultural products at a height, stop-fonts are actively filled in apartments. it’s warm in indian summer and it’s completely hot for belarusians. winter will be warm and satisfying. we can feed the world, as well as warm it. well , listen to europe do not choose messed up firewood. europe will soon freeze.

in the studio of the economic environment are experts who are well versed in pricing issues. and just like all of us, we go shopping valery belsky assistant to the president for financial development credit system doctor of economic sciences professor alexei bogdanov minister of antimonopoly regulation and trade and medvedev chairman of the national statistical committee dear guests. good evening. good evening. as we see in the plot, the problem of rising prices is global in comparison with other countries. everything is not so bad here, but the issue of pricing is fundamental because it affects the interests of all belarusians. each of us with a wallet feels price changes. well, i want to recall the principled position of our president. by pricing policy, please, the manufacturer is an intermediary and traders are winding up prices. responsibility for justified import walls should be introduced along the entire chain and a system should be established. we have never had a shortage of goods and

never will. i guarantee this to people. they also report to me about the practice of circumventing anti-inflationary legislation by raising prices for goods under the guise of new goods. a whole chicken carcass costs 2 rubles. and in half dismembered 5 rubles. for example. there are no socially significant non-significant goods. i said there must be justice of the sixth on the other hand, any increase in prices is prohibited beyond the task of returning by next year to an inflation rate of 7-8% the position of the head of state is fundamental and tough on the shelves there should be goods of good quality in a wide range and at fair business prices. should come to their senses , unreasonable growth is prohibited. prices

, instructions were given to develop and implement effective price regulation measures in the country . directive no. 10 and 669 adopted with lightning speed. inflation parameters, as the head of the statistical office, of course. you have the most up-to-date information. say how consumer prices have changed in the current year. and what is our level of inflation today, what does it consist of? well , firstly, i want to pay a little attention to what they are. uh, consumer prices and the consumer price index, which are recorded by bell stats. these are all goods and services that our citizens consume. in this regard, the consumer price index includes all consumer goods that relate to food products. meat, milk, coffee sugar, that is, a variety of products that are food and, of course,

non-food products that we use in everyday life. and somewhere, let's say, like a car. we do not buy every year, but nevertheless it gets into our survey for sure. well, certainly not unconditionally in order to track this index. hmm. uh, we have registrars who collect about 70,000 product quotes every month. so here's for in order to evaluate these goods, we examine 8.5 thousand basic trade organizations. that is, these are markets and convenience stores . and, of course, these are chain brands as a result, and hmm for september inflation. compared to december, it was 14.8%. moreover, 6.3% is the contribution of a-a rise in prices for goods, e-e food groups and 6% is the contribution of non-food products. if we

are talking about a product group, then we understand that this one, and the contribution is provided by both our manufacturers and importers, who brought fish coffee tea. ah, well, as for non-food products, then, of course, uh, it had a big impact, how did the importer develop. and we understand that the leaders here turned out to be cars and spare parts, that is, where it was possible, roughly speaking, to hedge currency risks, and in this case, we understand that when the importer set the price for a certain product, he laid the currency risks there, uh -e. they did not at all correspond to the exchange rate used by the national bank, that is, about what the head of state said absolutely right. so we looked at consumer prices and, uh, paid attention. at such a moment that the conversion of consumer prices in annual terms in july of this year amounted to 18.1% in august 179, and in september

17.4 the dynamics is positive and uh, we have minus 7/10% of a point in almost 3 months. tell me if e. this is the situation that the anti-infection measures of the government and the national bank have made it possible to somewhat improve the price situation, yes. and in part we can say that the third our quarter was characterized by, rather, the production of seasonal products, which tends to deflate during these periods, so, of course, here, er, two factors came into play. it is that the government has held back a certain range of goods and growth on them. well, it’s understandable, such general economic reasons that influenced the fact that it developed at such a level , i’m ready to agree with all theses. i can only add that he has stabilized the exchange rate, definitely. here is the last period of time discussing it. this is also very serious.

influenced by the fact that the inflation rate in the russian federation decreased and prices fell. and we have a lot of products from there. additionally , we bring here to our country. in addition, the seasonal factor played a role in many goods, and many. so to speak, inflation peaks. they were liquidated in previous periods. this also contributed to the decline in general. of course, the government worked, it’s impossible to say that nothing should be done, and 214 resolution was adopted, where strictly according to the 3 penchatai system they regulated and so-called socially important goods. uh, the profitability of manufacturers was limited by allowances by the importer, but the president correctly said, stop liquidating. e with a flaw on other issues due to the implementation of prices. yes, due to rising prices. why look at costs? think how to adjust the market, so it was decided to price and time, she is developing a new document. uh, i’ll note that the inflation that we have today and the price level, by the way, that we have today, it is much

lower than in neighboring countries, for example, in dairy products are 50-60% cheaper than in the russian federation, the price of meat is 40-50% or bakery products are 60% cheaper. we have real money. yes, this is real money, and here, of course, there is a certain achievement, but at the same time there is no limit to perfection, and this task was set for the head of state. eh, dear experts. let's explain to our viewers. here are the fundamental reasons for the current situation with consumer prices at the micro level and inflation at the macro level. if you'll allow me to recap, yes, here's the first one you mentioned. at we have a tendency to outpace the rise in prices abroad. yes, respectively , we have imports for certain items, and imported inflation has played a very large role, the prices of imported products are growing as they act. there, as an element of intermediate consumption, our national prices are rising. here the flywheel of inflation is being launched in this vein, we saw it. by the way, it was a pronounced, pronounced inflation. the costs, that is, the

costs arose from the manufacturer and the focus is the second factor that greatly influenced it - this is due to increased sanctions pressure. at principle, on our country. this has grown five times. today, for many goods , the logistics are higher than the goods themselves. this also, of course, played a significant, really significant role. well, exchange rate difference. but the most important thing to understand is alexei, you need to understand that when we talk about chains, we need time to work out this optimal route, we will actually feel for it now after they have crumbled and possibly in the future the costs of logistical issues. they will certainly decrease, this is a fact, but by the way, i will note to the pride of our manufacturers, logisticians and product suppliers. after the tightening of sanctions, everyone reoriented instantly instantly. we used to bring what, for example, from the european union. today we are not from uzbekistan and artistic countries, from turkey from other countries they already carry vodka products from other countries, there is no problem with this, but we needed time for this and this, of course, played a little price increase at the

moment, but it already levels people. let's agree that this is work in progress and we are doing well in terms of logistics, so this gives cause for optimism. well, here and viktorovna noted the factor of hedging currency e, risks. eh, valery ivanovich, you are like a professor. uh, tell our viewers in simple terms, what kind of hedging is this? what it is? so, well, uh, we know that a major price spike has happened. we may well know the reasons if we compare inflationary dynamics, for example, in the first quarter, when we received 9% uh, that is, today's 14 and 8% price increases vs. uh compared to december. e of the past year 9%, we scored it for the first quarter. and more than six in march means, uh, what was the reason for that? that is, we, our importers , first of all, faced uncertainty in the foreign exchange market, that is, by

factoring in the price of possible upside risks. uh, exchange rate countries of the state, some manager is sitting, saying, so today the exchange rate is 2.5, what will it be? tomorrow he does not know ; he lacks the horizons of some economic knowledge. he says let's say it's four. as a result, we buy goods with you in which the course is laid, for example, foreign currency, 4 rubles. instead of 2 1/2 months at all. uh, in essence, this is an attempt to insure your future expenses probable. yes, due to changes in exchange rates, including them in the price. here, uh, the current batches of products. that's right. absolutely with all its politics. including the national bank of the joint commercial banks, in fact, they took control of the situation in such a manual mode and in almost 2.5 and 3 weeks. all these risks have been mitigated. e, information policy of the national bank e policy indicative containment of the agreement with our partners, because

sanctions risks have also been added there. we are about them. eh, that's somewhere behind the scenes of them erotically. we 'll talk more. e, say a. well, that's between hedging currency risks to speculative price increases. well, where is this line, after all, a speculative increase in prices, the head of the state also spoke, probably also one of the factors. this is the inflationary spiral that was unfolding. aleksey igorevich, you, as head of the ministry of antimonopoly regulation and trade, how do you rate? these speculative processes, the head of state absolutely rightly noted. it was precisely this nuance, and at that time it was certain. well, everything, so you can say a flaw, that is, what is risk hedging. yes, he understood that it was not clear to him what to do, and he laid higher unreasonably high rates, but he did not just describe in himself that i had laid such a rate. he overestimated the allowance in the allowance. this issue will be fixed today. the allowance will be clearly defined practically for the entire category of goods that we introduce

to our country and this is already an overstatement. and this speculative overestimation will not be due to risk hedging, or due to the desire to cash in on the moment on ordinary citizens. this issue will be adjusted. yes, i'll add it inside. now, if this situation was still touched upon, that is, within 2.5-3 three, maybe not. this is the maximum, which means that the situation was completely stopped, that is, the currency could be bought. both cash and non- cash. that is, today the foreign exchange market works without any hiccups. moreover, i can assure you that the range of currencies that are currently traded and put into our basket has been expanded, that nothing in the legislation today prevents our importers from acquiring foreign currency. today under the future contracts. if once there were such restrictions, today they simply do not exist, that is, there are reasons for hedging. in this case, no, as much as i would like to add that as soon as the national bank

stopped this situation. we would believe them all. we probably expected that the importers they will recalculate hmm yes, that is, realizing that there will be a normal currency component when they carry these goods, but what did we pay attention to when registering prices every week in fact. on tuesday registers we drew on the fact that they continued to grow. that is, no matter how it worked, the bank didn’t care for us, they didn’t return the price or this one, which is a currency component, they didn’t correct it, and therefore adding what the march leader said. i want to point out that in the project in addition to the decree, the allowance will also be clearly written how to recalculate at the rate of the national bank. and it is right. yes , valery ivanovich, tell me, here you are heading the e-commission on economic security. what are the internal challenges, e.g. risks, that form

strict price regulation? well, maybe in theory, that is, will we not see empty shelves on the shelves? no, of course, because , well, firstly, the requirements of the head of state ensure the saturation of the consumer market, and it will be fulfilled . three any situation. we are oriented towards containment. uh, price increases and we are talking about non- price parity for individual goods, which today exist both in our consumer market and in the market from the marginal countries. we know what trade tourism means, it has acquired a fairly broad framework and it is possible that if we gradually do not equalize, e, value with individual states, then we will simply partially wash out our budget, which goes to support, for example, agricultural production. because the goods will still be attractive super attractive, and we will see a fairly large number of foreign

buyers here, but we, first of all, are probably already guided by the belarusian e, a citizen of the state, and noted that first of all it is necessary to feed the belarusian people and only then solve issues related to increasing the build-up export to others. although when we talk about exports. we are still talking about the prices of the regional or provoly market, because socially oriented prices in the consumer market of belarus are one thing. world prices are different. they differ today, and we still maintain a fairly comfortable price environment by restraining, despite the fact that the level of price growth is quite large, that is, atypical for recent years. let me remind you that in recent years we have been less than 5% in one of the years in the nineteenth year, by the way, that's when all this leapfrog with political pressure on our country began in the twentieth year and a little here. eh, that's part of it. this led to such a situation in the nineteenth year, less than 5% dmitry viktorovich, so the risk

there is also a risk, of course, of adaptation, which may be associated with a change in the assortment structure. well, i wouldn't consider it like that. uh, well, something extraordinary. no, of course not, which means, uh, those measures are once again underlined that are being worked out by the government today. this is essentially the new rules of the game. new old, because these measures, especially those who worked in the market, there 10-15 years ago is already good. they are known. they work fine. new time demands new solutions qualitative new solutions. it is positive. yes, new is good forgotten side, but a positive effect. uh, of course, w- is expected to be colossal. it 's talking. what is it that a wall bacchanalia just started today, a positive effect from the implementation of these rather harsh worlds. this , as we said, is like a cold shower for our business, like goal setting. return to the fairway. if you think about it, think about it,

then, unfortunately, business unions have become a practice. means nursing and complaining about uh, heavy-handed regulation, instead of c organizing its own business community and taking into account the signals that came from the government and above all from the head of state. after all, we remember that the president several times. drew attention to this situation. well, it's just that they didn't hear her, probably, although. and if the business had reacted in time, er, it probably wouldn't have happened. i think that, in principle, we still have such decisions that are really correct. we hear this task a lot from the self- regulation of the market self-regulation business, yes, but in our situation it was absolutely right to say. this did not happen, and the role of business unions, probably, in this part should have been strengthened, and more from them should be more analytics. the more offers the more their mice openly, how dense their tasks are. naturally, unions are a bridge between the community and government bodies. please state your position. we gather

together constantly hold public cult councils and develop solutions together. we all hear everyone correctly, of course we do. uh, we make a decision aimed at uh, meeting the needs of the general population. primarily. i mean not just the satisfaction of a need, and today so is aimed at ensuring that the standard of living and quality of life of the population in the republic of belarus does not decrease. and this is the key thing that the president set the task at this meeting. this is the income of the population. they should not fall alexei igorevich question to you. tell me how the work is organized to fulfill the president's order to prevent price increases. how is the monitoring of the price situation organized? as far as the ministry of antimonopoly regulation is concerned, i will frankly say that they simply switched to an emergency regime. the order that we, uh, for the entire period, have been going en masse and looking at what situation on the trading shelf has exceeded; the hotline was closed

; the work was also established in an online format. today, all the numbers are all in the phone, please, we made online questionnaires such that any citizen could provide information, but uh, i want to note something? here, from the moment the resolution was adopted until saturday, we only had 500 appeals. this week , of course, each of these must be answered, of course, it must be considered, of course, but i want that note actually about the violation here is an honor, by the way, the business of the society in honor and trade. well breaking no flurry a bit. yes, there are some violations and they are dealt with, the relevant authorities most of the appeals came from e-e business entities, how to interpret how to apply? i have such a nuance, i have such a nuance, of course, in this part we tried to organize the work according to the answers. but maybe not everyone succeeded, because there really was a flurry. well great appeal. i want to say, first of all, that not only attention will be paid, in

fact, but by that tariff or another aspect. but uh, the most important thing, uh, what we came up with as a result of meetings with the head of state, that the entire chain will be monitored, starting from the manufacturer. uh-huh and ending the strife. shelf or well, in this case, this is not the topic of services, but nevertheless, that is, the entire chain of the manufacturer is a reseller wholesale link. we will monitor this entire chain, and regulation is supposed to be installed today on the entire chain, in order to understand how each of the participants in this chain leads millions of business entities, of course, maybe all of all regulatory bodies, there were not enough hands to watch all this. well , business entities and rulers also looked, and one of the poultry farms was already, uh, the famous one that sawed half carcasses and allowed it on the shelf was checked. she has already checked the head is detained and already well-read. approximately some

damage there, in my opinion, 7 million. or how much during this time was inflicted. everything is checked, everything is controlled. and this is correct. here is about e in the development of your thesis. uh, on an errand heads of state heads of law enforcement agencies. belarus held a series of meetings with labor collectives and toes took part. e, the first such meeting, probably, well, perhaps, such a little more frank and uh, the heads of the special services brought to our attention, including scenarios, e destructive forces. uh, in relation to our country, and now, in addition to frank military plans, and the enemies are still hatching plans to undermine the situation inside the country up to seizing power and changing the geopolitical course. and that's what i am for myself delivered as an economist. that's what i ran into, if i may, so to speak, that a necessary condition for the practical

implementation of most of these scenarios, e, is the need for a sharp increase in social tension in the country, and price growth is an extremely sensitive aspect and therefore the question is pricing issues. at this stage, they are not so much and not only and not so much. economically, how many issues of ensuring state security are unconditional, therefore, without control, alekseevich is definitely uncontrollable, there is no way to do it it is impossible and in the development of the topic e we prepared a story about the work of representatives of the state control committee. eh, let's see. the usual environment is one of the minsk districts, a store within walking distance, there are such stores throughout the country, specifically here the state control committee with an inspection has already come to find a violation. here, for the second time, they took us journalists with them. perishable goods are the first thing we see, always back to

cheese, president. let's get some 99. it was fixed at the old price of 3.89. we have two 99. that is, it is for a ruble. he is on the ruble this price always comes up. apply minimum trade markup and shop. it still makes money. just less money, probably just even at this price it is profitable for them to sell at the expense of turnover. how much time has passed between these prices days 2 weeks 2 weeks for 2 weeks so cheaper, how nice it was for ice creams, we will take it and eat top vanilla ice cream. ruble 69, and today for the ruble 49 marina dumplings with turkey or chicken. let's go 4.29. marina chicken 4:29 on the fifth day was fixed mm. price 4.69 then

here again we see, of course, for 40 kopecks. yes, this is someone who reduced the marginality of the store or supplier. uh, maybe both could have been lowered by the supplier. we have established violations on the network. how many stores are there? uh, twenty of them were set to overstate the marginal trade overstatement ranged from one kopeck to 70 rubles, just about canned chicken in their own kosako was overpriced by a ruble. almost. how so, maybe , but, well, they deal with it. our colleagues to whom this document was handed over for legal assessment uh-huh, but show me the canned chicken that was, with which it cost like cast-iron, here there is nothing like that, we did not find it in this store, most likely, it has already been paid off at inflated prices. thank you all. we are fine, we are behind you. after

the store within walking distance, we move to one of the usual minsk supermarkets, as the committee works here. now let's see if it is more difficult with a large number of scourges, in general, our retail chains, this is the absence of price tags and inconsistent prices for price tags and for goods and wu, and let's ask them for help. help, let's, we're going to do the old man again. this is about the fact that the state control committee checks and how, in principle, the store works with these price tags for goods, there were no violations specifically here. there was no violation here , but besides the overestimation of the body, we check and sanitary standards look at the expiration dates date of manufacture expiration date until such and such after opening 12 hours expiration date. uh, that means 12 hours of cheese after opening. in

this case, the head of cheese is cut into the store and term changes immediately. here it is an unexpected twist that we check in alcohol alcohol from svyaznoy goods pricing is regulated only on certain types of alcohol. in this case, wine. it is not regulated, of course, it depends on the quality, the wine, the guys say. no, 40% max. that is, it turns out the store. maybe, for example, to earn as much as he sees fit in vienna. oh, he's cheap here, 94 kopecks. this is a regulated item on your mind. what was the most expensive potato you saw? the most expensive was 4 rub. the place in the store where the committee has the least work for the committee. well, for example , drinks, for example, soft drinks , yes, yes, as a rule, you can't spoil anything here from the sixth. you started working more from the sixth day. we have more work to do. well, in any case, thanks to you with the

prices in stores, we will be shocked. correctly? yes, of course, everything, thank you very much for the interview. i think there's a lot to discuss, if we now look at uh, the issues under discussion from a business standpoint. uh, how does business perceive pricing measures? regulation and, most importantly, what lesson he should learn. is it possible in this case to count on the responsible behavior of business to implement the mechanisms of price autonomy? how do you think time dmitry i think that, uh, of course, you can count on us, uh, in general, conscientious responsible citizens? educated, i would say, that is, let's say, it means that many foreign bankers who are present here are surprised. uh, discipline, credit to our citizens who borrow resources and repay them on time. i think that, basically, business, respectively applies hmm well, to

all other issues and pricing issues also survived a little higher that it's a cold shower. yes, cold showers, but uh , the rules can be followed when there are such rules, and uh, the factor that will be determined, it will be, of course, taking into account the interests of the business. no one has the desire, let's put it this way, it means to lose this segment of our economic activity. we cannot merge businesses. generally. we say that, uh. well, some of the uh, businesses have tried to take advantage of this situation. uh more in addition, that is, the situation with sanctions, tried to take advantage of our traditional partners. that is, this behavior is typical. this means that even mars once spoke about capital. uh, it means to sell everything means to make a profit of 300%. well, uh, we didn’t remember, for example, today transactions have become uh expensive, that is, today we are talking about making a profit there from some kind of e.