an endless state of emergency in colombia in the west of the country collapsed a bridge over the lavieja river, two policemen died at the time of the incident , the car got stuck between concrete slabs that fell into the river and 15 people who were on the bridge in vehicles were also injured . they were hospitalized, the reasons for the destruction are unknown. it is reported that the crossing, built in 1984, underwent regular checks and the last one 3 months ago did not reveal any problems. cool her rainy weekend expected in belarus on saturday in some areas is possible strong wind up to 18 m/s, 28 heat at night, up to +12 in the daytime on sunday, the temperature background will still decrease with the arrival of cold air masses, the air temperature at night will range from minus one to plus six, and daytime maxima will be in the range from plus five in the north to plus 17 in the southern regions of the republic, while under the influence

of the frontal division in most regions of the country there will be rainfall at night and in the morning, with the exception of the southern regions. uh, possible sleet. at the beginning of the next weeks promise warming rains will be short-lived. more information at my colleagues at 15:00. on this i say goodbye to you all the best and have a good weekend.

good evening, this is the economic environment for belarus , one of the satellite tv channels belarus 24. the main domestic political event of last week was the address of the president to the belarusian people and the national assembly , which was instead devoted to a block of economic issues. and this is quite natural, as the head of state noted. give me the economy and everything else. i will do without you the economy is the real basis of any state and sanctions. as stressed by our president unfair illegal sanctions. we will not be stopped, the time has come for initiatives and

active actions to immediately introduce our scientific developments, develop existing and create new high-tech industries. implement import-substitution projects, implement union programs and, of course, maintain social justice in our country this year of the median in the current five-year plan, the task is to ensure gdp growth of about four percent. and we will do it we'll manage, because the economy today is one of the conditions for the sovereignty and independence of belarus. how can we figure it out? today we have experts in our studio, with whom we will discuss the direction of implementing the economic tasks set in the message of the president valery belsky deputy

chairman of the council of the republic of the national assembly of belarus doctor of economic sciences professor maxim ermolovich deputy head of the presidential administration of belarus and medvedev chairman of the national statistical committee of belarus dear guests. good evening. good evening. i propose to start with the main thing in our country with a person , i mean the topic of social justice, which sounded so brightly in the message of our president. e, argued systematically with specific examples. eh, valery ivanovich here. can it be argued that it is social justice that underlies our state policy and, thus, forms the foundation and framework of socio-economic stability in our society. yes, of course, dmitry vitolyevich, one can and must affirm. this

this is not the first time this thesis has been voiced in the message and the head of state emphasizes this, but the most important thing is that the decision and laws that are adopted in this direction. they are of a pronounced social nature, moreover, man as the highest value of our society and state. and hmm this thesis. this norm is enshrined in our constitution and the work in this direction is being carried out by the president precisely to ensure the social protection of our society and people. and this thesis is the most important achievement. eh, well, i’ll note this sender. what else? following, uh , the theses that the head of state voiced at one stage or another. eh, i liked it, just the thesis

on social justice, which sounded the message of 2006, he said that social justice and patriotism are the foundations of the ideology of our state and the president emphasized. uh hmm on that and the power should be focused on ensuring social justice. we are building a social state and this is our forte, and then the head of state spoke about the inadmissibility of social division. and here i will note, as an economist, that in some cases. well , these figures have been achieved. e but of such a biased value, for example, one of them 1%, e of humanity, that is, about, e, seventy thousand people, own wealth. how many are all the other 99%, and about sixty people have a concentrated total

world wealth, uh, who uh. hmm in this equivalent, owns half of the population of our globe, belarus in this regard stands out for the better. and i am sure that our state will attract for that part of society, uh, that wants to live in a fair society and develop , raise their children, ensure their health and comfortable existence . there are many indicators that characterize. uh, the level of social inequality. in society. it is not necessary to admit that according to all these indicators. this is the ginny coefficient decile coefficients. relations between the number of rich and poor are being established, within the society, according to all these indicators, belarus is at the level of those countries that consider themselves developed countries to have achieved social equality. and

we are nothing uh, according to these indicators, we are not inferior to the most uh, the best practitioner in the world. and here is the president in his message. he said that we have built such an economic model. e, a socially equal state, where there are no oligarchs, where there is no e stratification of society into rich and poor, and beyond. e thesis hides a fairly large system of relationships in society. this is the availability of education. availability of health care availability of standard services, including. and housing and communal services it is a whole complex. issues for which the state is responsible. according to these indicators, those countries that lose to us, e, have very significant social risks. we see

that social dissatisfaction constantly arises, conflicts of clashes, including quite severe ones, this is all from what people consider unfair, and their own social status and, as far as indicators of the country's social development are concerned, of course, the main thing is to provide. uh, money incomes of the population and employment are key issues in the last twenty-second year. uh, special attention was paid specifically to increasing incomes or not reducing low incomes, not allowing low incomes in 2022, when we understood that unprecedented sanctions were imposed on her country. as a result, we can say that, for example, the level of wages. we rank second in the cis in terms of wages are only ahead of the russian operation, in terms of employment, last year, and according to the results of the survey, we got a figure of actual

unemployment of 3.6%. this is the lowest figure in the entire history of observations, and whether a repeated decision was made to increase pensions and the real pension. we have increased significantly and moreover, e in the framework of sample surveys of households. and we received information that the population answered us that 88% of people are satisfied with their lives in the republic of belarus. this speaks of how much that social policy is receiving a response today and we are successfully developing a socially just state among the population, but someone in the west does not like this approach, and our president reminded us of this during the message , many methods of hybrid war were tried on us and attempted coup d'état and sanctions and what about the boomerang economic consequences for western countries? let's

listen. great financial experts predicted the collapse of our economy, the collapse of the ruble, the promise of the population. and now that the predictions not justified, we have to explain to the citizens of the european union why, when they saved on warmer hot water, gasoline, belarus survived, moreover, in a number of areas , they even added now they are looking for objective subjective factors there in the west. write, the head of state noted that in some areas we have added, and in what areas, but the key is actually what the head of state said, this is that we withstood and found the opportunity to adapt to the sanctions that were imposed on us, for example, with second half in 2022, there was an increase in the main macroeconomic indicator, for example,

in industry growth. 4 by the third quarter was 15%, that is, this suggests that the main industries have adapted and began to work to build new supply chains of logistics supplies of financial resources in a completely different way. and we managed to get a record balance of foreign economic activity, which amounted to a positive 4.3 billion us dollars, that is, this indicates that we were quite successful, and our industries worked on external markets. and, of course, as the main example of successful work, this is the agro-industrial complex, which, firstly. uh, last year harvested a good grain crop, a record harvest of rapeseed, and grew by 3.6% compared to last year, but also made a significant contribution directly to export performance. this is 8.3 billion us dollars received for the supply

of agricultural products. for export, in fact, this is a quarter more than in the 21st century. and today the task has also been set to continue this work. we know that the flagship of quality economic growth in belarus has been and remains an industrial complex and the president sets the task of keeping the annual growth rate in industry at the level of 150-17%, that is, at the level of a successful 21 years. here is maxim leonidovich, due to which, in modern realities , we can ensure such a pace, just, in industry, more than 30% of the total gdp is formed precisely in the industrial sector. and how did they not convince us that the industry is not so important, we need to go to other sectors to develop more services. e to give up the material thanks to god, this production did not happen, and uh, if you remember. a very consistent

position of the head of state, which was that we must preserve and develop our industrial complex. we must build enterprises engaged in material production must create new types of products. we must preserve those priority areas of our industrial complex where we have competencies. and the task today, uh, that the designers of the sanctions packages set for themselves was to create the same the consequences that were after the collapse of the soviet union that operational communications will be lost, that our industrial complex will stop and will not be able to function in the new conditions, but in fact it turned out that our industrial sector quite quickly, unexpectedly quickly for those

who imposed these sanctions, refocused on new markets. demand has increased, where our products were not bought before, our interaction with the russian federation has only improved, we returned to e, discussion and formation of e union programs. e in the area the agricultural industry is a gigantic market, which has become for belarusian enterprises ready to supply new products that are in demand in these markets. uh, these are the sanctions changes. they have become nothing but blessings. and uh, again, this reorientation happened quickly , almost within 22 years, the industry significantly increased export volumes. there are examples of enterprises that increased the volume of production of exports

of goods by three or four times before, uh, it was very difficult for them to grow even by 3-4%. here it is reality and uh, those areas in which we have traditionally turned out to be in demand, but have retained the potential - agricultural engineering , automotive industry. today we are already trying and successfully trying to participate in cooperative ties in the field of aircraft manufacturing. we are moving into sectors dominated by the countries of the collective west. this is a new new challenge. and to answer this challenge. the president needs to work on this and said that the main requirement is the first time to modernize, invest, invest, invest brains, if you want to create those products

that are in demand by the market, and this market is not limited, if we talk about the achievements of our exports. yes, indeed, we exported more than 8 billion dollars of agricultural products last year, at the same time, the russian federation last year imported agricultural products worth 35 billion dollars with huge reserves, huge reserves china, a huge market. uh, again, uh, we, uh, are looking for ways to develop our own industry in cooperation with the russian federation accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars in the machine tool market. uh-huh machinery equipment. this market is not limited. today, we need to use all the opportunities that exist and have been preserved in our country in order to increase these volumes. and in order to increase them, it is necessary to transform the sources of financing

in time. they determined access to technological equipment, including the one that we can make on our own . implement and implement most effectively and quickly, but one of the main macroeconomic tasks from the president for this year is to ensure the growth of gross domestic product of about 4%. at the same time, the head of state formulated six factors for the economic development of our country. let's take a closer look at them, please. firstly, today is the time for active action initiatives, only outside-the-box thinking leaders, enthusiasts who are able to move the industry and

the field forward need courageous people who do not afraid to take responsibility not to be afraid to go beyond the boundaries of the instructions, if required by the production need. and if their courage and risk are not associated with personal gain, you know what i'm talking about, and the result is visible, then valery ivanovich will not cause such a management style of questions from regulatory authorities from the point of view of theory and modern management practice. yes, management science. does the manager have the right to take risks, and where is the line between managerial competencies, powers and degree of responsibility, of course. uh, all economic activity is risky activity. uh, this is an integral part of the work of a leader, but this risk must be reasonable, calculated, insured

, high results cannot be achieved, and managers are obliged to take risks. if you speak correctly, but this risk must be justified, it must be emphasized again. and you can't share. uh, here are two of these concepts, probably, the risks of responsibility, that is, the responsibility of the leader is in any case, if not certain results of the enterprise are achieved, if it slows down does not fulfill its social obligations, then, of course, responsibility comes, but sometimes we are faced with a situation where the action of the manager is objective, aimed at improving the efficiency of the enterprise is interpreted. maybe as an excess risk, like uh, illegal activity, including here instructive. i somehow have to say that the line, probably, or the red line for uh, risk-taking should be uh,

the law did not violate the law did not go beyond its limit, then you are acting lawfully. the second question is objectively or not - whether it has achieved results or not achieved in the business plan of the enterprise its plans for the work of the investment project. so the head of state also emphasized in her message that the regulatory bodies that provide work on the assessment of activities, including managers, and they should focus on prevention, and effective prevention of violations of the law, the supervisory authority, the supervisory authorities must say that this issue is under the constant control of the corner states , too, it works, it is associated with certain , including subjective, it is extremely important for us, including in the context of social justice

, to ensure an objective assessment of the activities of leaders who every day his work is associated with a certain risk , unfortunately, not in all cases today. hey, how's the show? this practice manages to achieve such objectivity, well let's say the state control committee, which is the ideologist of control activities. he is making certain efforts to improve the efficiency of his work, including opening, for example, an educational project of the current year. uh, in our main main university of the country , specialists will be trained in state audit, but the question is very delicate, sensitive, how do we monitor the permanent government in general. this is what we monitor the mood of the leader and today day. uh, the workload associated with inspections for business executives. it ranks among the top

management concerns at the time it is needed to ensure the country's economic and social security. need a business initiative in the face of e restrictions in the foreign trade gap. uh, traditional chains. supply chain search for new markets have to make non-standard decisions. and to substantiate them. hedge for hedging. sometimes there just isn't enough time, so leaders show this initiative, but still subconsciously understand that this initiative may be followed by a check, and based on the results of the check, negative assessments of these actions will be made. and this can hold back the initiative of the leader, so that this does not

happen, one must not only look at the inspectors. look, also at the legislation, at those administrative barriers that we built under normal conditions in order to liberate this initiative, to make all the tools for building up available to the manager. production and sales volumes in order to maximize profits at the same time. one criterion is the most important for evaluating these actions, if the leader is not looking for self -interest, corruption can destroy any undertakings of any projects. those who are wealthy in the country are insignificant or the lack of control over corruption risks can turn into

a big disaster. today, we need to give, uh, the right to take risks to the leader, to give him the opportunity to act on the basis of economic rationality. but at the same time strictly control and punish any corruption, but uh, maxim leonidovich, a question for you, as an employee of the presidential administration, yes, the political headquarters of the head of state. does this approach of changing the requirements for new leaders mean that we have new requirements for competencies, er in modern leaders. and if we have a personnel reserve in our country, there is enough personnel reserve. eh, such leaders of nursing, i would not say that we have some new trends recently. and

we are doing it. eh, something fundamental new from the point of view of the implementation of our personnel policy by personnel policy, a consistent generational renewal is taking place today. in the system of state bodies in key enterprises and yes indeed , young people come to leadership positions. a. well, let's say relatively young, if that's the gold standard of a high-level leader. this is 40-50 years on average 45 years. today, the personnel register of the head of state is a list of positions of about 800 positions that are consistent with the head of state's destination. this is the highest level of leadership. in our country. so, the average age of all this composition is 50 years old and the largest number of representatives

of the age group is 40-50-44% of all. in these positions. uh, this is exactly this age group 40-50 years old 44%. it seems to me that this is the right approach, because it is already, uh, the highest level when u leader. e, has work experience, including a good school, training and such a leader. e. well, let's just say firstly, he is active enough to keep up with the times and implement the tasks that the country sets before him. secondly, he has enough experience not to make mistakes or to reduce the number of these mistakes to a minimum and make decisions balanced reasonably without being too

adventurous, but there is one very important point. and it lies in the fact that we must develop business education. in our country, the academy of public administration under the president of the republic of belarus undertook this task and more than 50% of those who are in the personnel register. i think that the picture is about the same in the country as a whole for those enterprises that we call the flagships of our economy and which are leaders in the regions. ah, those leaders. e, one way or another, at least 50% of these number were trained at the management academy , but this is not enough, and education itself must meet the challenges of the time, it must be adaptive, it must look for the best management practices to meet, e, the highest

standards, so its business education development. this is what we in the administration will have to do, and me personally as an employee, and the presidential administration responsible for the economic bloc, therefore , together with the government, together with the administration body of the academy of management. we must find the ways of business education that will give knowledge to people who have passed the school of life and are ready for appointment as a leader, summing up this block yes, the head of state called the time for initiatives. well , let's call it that, e new managerial competencies, and the second factor, our president identified the increase in the role of science, it is required, i will quote, to move industries into new technological structures in the face of intense

competition. well, dear colleagues in this context. er question here we mean, er, the increase in the utility and practice orientation of our science. eh, hmm what you need. eh, now more actively introduce new technological solutions in production. what do you think, i believe that here it is not only necessary to introduce a new solution, but also to find those directions that will of interest to specific organizations and manufacturers. today we even have a fairly high level of product innovation, for example, for every fifth ruble of manufactured products. these are innovative products and every third ruble is a high -tech or medium-tech product, so today science should not only be focused on some product directly or not on r&d, but also work out those moments that will allow e

to offer completely new approaches and new solutions. import-substituting production in this case is also a key issue, and products for each enterprise of a particular enterprise in specific areas. what do you think, valery ivanovich, you worked for a long time in the system of the national academy of sciences, i can’t help but say that we definitely have science and the academy of sciences works under the direct control and management of the head of state. and what if we are talking about the academy of sciences although the academy of sciences is 40% of only, uh, belarusian science. here is the rest science is concentrated in universities and enterprises. well, uh, i can't say that uh, science and practice, they don't work together today or don't give results, of course, they work but have potential. eh, this activity, of course, undisclosed task, just consists in the fact that

the niches that have appeared, as we said the president. spoke generally speak, if in the twentieth year was not, it. it would be necessary to invent sprouts appeared. these are the seeds that for a long time our state , including everything, worked in our education and science, because we always focus on pure scientists. but , for example, employees of the design bureau of a tractor plant cannot be called scientists today. these are also scientists and there are many. a design bureau where fundamental developments are carried out, where more than 400 people work, this is a whole design bureau as a scientific institute in amkodor, for example, there is a scientific, scientific and technical center where it works just that's why. uh, of course, uh, i emphasize once again that, of course, there is. uh, some questions regarding- regarding. there speakers

implementation of developments. e, the topics of development of the order of the head of state are connected with e. hmm, the motivation for the work of scientists, by the way, speaking was such an order, she still has not fulfilled. e. hmm, the head of state also agreed on the need to take into account risks in, uh, planning. e, scientific e scientific work and most importantly, when evaluating their results, this is also an assignment. i think that if i make such decisions, these fetters that exist today in scientific organizations would somewhat loosen, if we talk about science, but in principle, we good. uh, consistent diverse, diversified science. there are priorities, scientific activities. they correspond to the priorities of the work of our state and the task of improving scientific activity does not harm, because having lost

some direction , a scientific school is formed for 15 years in order to grow a scientist after he receives a good higher education. it still has to come to pass 15 years. try to get a microbiologist today, for example, so here are the quick qualities. here is today for tomorrow. not really of course, some countries can introduce such a thing. canada, for example, has gone down this path . specialists are lured away, but uh, but uh, the advantage of these countries is uh, leveled , because they don’t have their own school, their own school is important, maybe i’ll add a fly in the ointment. we spend about half a percent of gdp in the country on science. about 500-600 million, budget financing and about 700 funds from innovation funds, which are financed by the inconsistent. the applied

direction of science, if i may say so , is more adapted to the production activities. this is catastrophically small. technologically leading countries invest 545 % in science. and if we want to have our own science. we need to increase spending on scientific activities. it's not a fast process. i absolutely agree with valery ivanovich about the seeds that we will plant. now they will bear fruit only in 15-20 years, but it is important that we have the science, that the seeds that were planted 20 years ago. today they allow us to stay in the world trends in the field. those scientific studies in which belarus has competence has schools.

and look at what happened in 2021-22, when technological sanctions were the hardest thing for us, because we were cut off and continue to be cut off from technology, er, that we didn't have. we even had to develop software for our e , productions on our own, and here science did not let down what was created in the country earlier, but was set up to solve these problems. and where were we, if there were no science now. but technological competition or dictate of technology in today's global competition is of paramount importance today , without a high level of technology development, it is impossible to consider ourselves

an economically developed country, and in order to achieve this, we need to work on our own science. we need to cooperate with, uh, scientific organizations of friendly countries, primarily the russian federation of china, cooperate very carefully, because we can offer achievements in the scientific field that neither the united states nor the united states has. great britain is not in the european union we have developments that are ahead of their time, and we need to go on developing these areas of the scientific school to give them new impetus to give them funding so that it continues to develop it is difficult to disagree, but due to scientific support, an increase in the share of innovation logically follows production, as well as import substitution, as a third factor. let's listen to our president. we must depend. western political entities

restricting the freedom of civilized business, this is a matter of national security import substitution. listen when they say some kind of sanctions. i was talking about the twentieth year. i think, thank god that a colossal market has opened up for us. take it and sell it, which, by the way, we are doing, but so far only by 70%, 30% we need to add and add urgently. this is national security. there is a wide field here for the implementation of the most daring ideas of belarusian scientists. last year we produced import-substituting products worth over $27 billion, this year we can add 10%. there would be a desire viktorovna and our statistics keep records of production, import-substituting products, and

in which sectors we could add those same 10%. and this information is taken into account by the ministry of economy, and today the ministry of economy is working very closely with the task set by the head of state to increase the volume of production of import-substituting products by 10%. that is , in fact, this year it is necessary to produce 30 billion dollars of import-substituting products. today we are working on a number of fronts. there are projects that are being implemented, including within the framework of allied programs in conjunction with the russian one. walkie-talkies are the main areas that are import substitution in terms of auto components and baty holdings operate here, e.g. belaz amkodor, today work is underway to modernize gomselmash plus. of course, this is a large layer of work to replace machine tools and machines that we previously purchased through imports. that is, this is also the same amkodor, for example, manufacturing equipment. this is the same kuzlitmash

for machine tools, so today this work has been implemented today. she unfolds into within the framework of the presidential order, while the task was set, and the government that 56% of all import-substituting products should be exported was an ambitious task. will we have time to implement new import-substituting projects this year? and that this requires this work must be carried out constantly. here is the task. this is not only the current year dmitry yes yes e, in some areas, for example, the production of equipment for the food industry. of course, we will allow what is important to us, we will not be able to. uh realize everything necessary in the current year or there regarding some achievements in import substitution in the field of software or technology production, based on the use of microprocessor and

computer technologies, of course. these are very tight deadlines, but most of the projects that are planned, including those cooperation projects that are planned with the participation of russian financing of russian enterprises, of course. they will be features of the current time, that e markets for our e, manufacturers have become more defined, then we understand who needs our products, if we previously had certain developments somewhere, but they were on the shelves. now we have, uh, a certain buyer who lives in the same conditions as we do, so we focus on cooperation projects. but uh, let's say, some types of equipment for the sardel industry could have been made there for a long time and efficiently, but our market is quite small only our republic, because uh hmm, many

enterprises, including the russian federation, were oriented for the purchase of branded products, which were produced outside the union state. now we can do this, this opens up huge opportunities for us, but on the terms of the operation, we not only can, but probably should not, and they offer not to go far from import substitution. eh, topics, we have prepared a short story on this topic. e , which indicates that projects are implemented in different ways and one of the examples when the firm hand of the state did not allow the enterprise to slide into the abyss of bankruptcy, a metal-rolling plant for the production of white gestures in measures. now it produces import-substituting products. let's see 30.000 tons of finished products in 2022, already 17.000 tons by the beginning of april 23, and many times more are planned. this is

tinplate, the only one in belarus and one of the best factories in the world for the production of modern packaging material, operating in the north of the country. what is tinplate ? each of us knows jars for canned food, lids for home-made products, containers for varnishes and paints , perfumes and cosmetics. all this is made of tinplate, primarily belarusian producers whose product is to be packaged in thin sheet steel purchased it abroad at least 30,000 tons per year today tinplate is produced in miory the project began as a private one, but the investors did not fulfill the promise, they were mired in debt and an ideal enterprise. turned into a bankrupt in the autumn of last year, the team was taken under its wing by the state and today the miory metallurgists. give odds to competitors modern trend, the thinner the better. if, for example

, in magnitogorsk, the tau cast meter rolls out tin to a thickness of 0.2 mm, then in belarusian the enterprise offers the consumer a sheet almost twice as thin. we are located in a warehouse instead of a rolling shop given a roll of 1.6 mm thickness, and its length is approximately 1.5 km. after the rental. it will increase approximately 10 times. it will remain responsible for 15,000 m. the capacity of the belarusian market is small, so 75% of the products are shipped for export, when projects were started, they had views of europe so far. there they bite their elbows with belarusian quality , others enjoy it. it is sad that we cannot supply nearby countries that european ones, which are closed, but they are stupid. they just closed the borders, they don’t understand, just the economic benefits, because here the logistics for this are called and built very close, but today the main direction in russia, the company employs more than 700 people in miory steel returning

experts. is there a feeling that something unique is being done for the republic of belarus yes, this feeling was present from the very beginning, because when they learned that such a plant would be built no one, i probably didn’t really believe it, but the wages and working conditions are good, so people come here to work for us not only from our district, but also from neighboring districts, it’s even strange, yes, some specialties are taught right in the workshops for mentoring, payments are provided experience is worth it in my team, i will say that we are working harmoniously. i have a second operator, which i am currently training for another two months, and he will receive his first before start-up. this import substitution project has a huge side effect, exclusively positive in the construction of a large plant spurred the development of the social sphere in the coming decades - this is at least.