already this year, the roof over one’s head, that is, housing, has come under attack. analysis from svetbank chief economist nerius machulis. the economy of the baltic countries has found itself in stagnation, followed by a period of recession. this is also bad news for those thinking about buying a home. according to economists, housing is currently not affordable in any of the baltic capitals. in vilnius and tallinn, housing has become unaffordable. according to our calculations, if they demand housing for you. more than 30% of your monthly income, then we consider it unaffordable, this is the situation has developed in all capitals, tallinn, riga and vilnius. from the same report, the lithuanian economy will shrink by 0.3% this year. but even going into such a minus does not seem to be the worst result. at the beginning of the year they were minus 4%. and then there is the labor market in the form of a ticking time bomb. the number of vacancies has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years. things got worse only after the 2008 crisis

. moreover, companies are significantly reducing staff; especially large players in the market are cutting staff by a quarter due to rising costs. another good example: record dismissal among lithuanian postal employees. about 400 postmen will be sent to the streets in the spring of 2024. according to forecasts, this will seriously deteriorate the logistics and availability of print media. there will be no one to deliver them to small settlements. points. even the lithuanian prosecutor's office publicly voiced the staff shortage. there is not a single employee in the department under 30 years of age. only 6% are under 40 years old. the rest are older people. add low wages and high workload. the result is a forecast of minus 100 more prosecutors in the near future. eec predicts that in by 2030, lithuania will have a shortage of 3,000 nurses. there is also a shortage of it specialists and teachers. primary

schools, social workers, managers, advertising managers, civil servants in municipalities; in general, 45% of employers face the problem of labor shortage. with the roof over our heads and work sorted out, let's move on to the neighbors' refrigerator. in 2023 , the number of people in need of food assistance increased by almost 12% or 22 thousand people. to these numbers. it is worth adding 16 thousand ukrainians who submitted a petition about help. however, few can count on food. the ministry of social protection has updated the minimum wage. if a lithuanian earns more than 235 euros per month, he may not count on help. that is, if you have 236 euros, they will no longer provide assistance, despite the fact that the average fat in lithuania last winter was 400 euros. against the backdrop of ruthless statistics, the government of the country calls.

tighten your belts even tighter. prime minister igrida simonyte announced the adoption of a tough budget for next year with further cuts in social spending. situation for lithuania is aggravated by the fact that the entire eurozone economy is in recession, which means there is not much help to be expected from. in particular, according to šemanytė, lithuania faces a transition to strict budget discipline in accordance with the maastricht criteria, which will require a significant reduction in the budget deficit. with this approach, the catastrophic ratings of the head of government are not surprising. the minimum trust rating was recorded in september and october of this year. so last month the head of government was assessed positively only by 20% of respondents and 74% were negative. in addition, the rating of the head of midstrana, gabrielius lansberges, is at the lowest level today. of course, lithuania is pathologically dependent on the european union, and it has its own host of problems. they refused. from

cheap russian energy resources, cut off trade and resulted in a recession in germany, which pulled the whole of eastern europe with it. plus, cynical friends from the ocean are brazenly engaged in economic cannibalism, luring large european companies to themselves. considering that lithuania is a subsidized a state for which european subsidies remain an important component of economic survival, all this is bad news for vilnius. european subsidies will be reduced, and the sign. austerity is inevitable; in addition, the expansion to the balkans announced by european officials means that a significant part of the budget will be allocated to the integration of this region, which also consists of poor subsidized countries. the european budget is getting poorer, and the number of mouths for finance is only growing, here also ukraine, which is constantly asking for more and more, so it will obviously be difficult for satellites in the form of vilnius and company, even despite the diligence of lithuania.

is trying to earn political capital in front of the west, constantly provoking tensions in relations with its neighbors. the lithuanian authorities are not only clearing the media space, shutting their mouths. dissenters are persecuted for political reasons, but they put pressure on business, forcing them to stop doing business with minsk and moscow; serious pressure is also placed on citizens who are trying to be forced to refuse visa-free travel to our country. but the art of currying favor is really vilnius’ strong point. they inflamed the situation in belarus, fueled the rebellion, sheltered impostors, pseudo-politicians, imaginary bloggers and other activist brethren. those in the forefront called for sanctions. in relation to minsk, they legally prohibited the purchase of cheap electricity from the new belarusian nuclear power plant, blocked the transit of oil and fertilizers, then what came of it? analysts, as one, say that lithuania under nousedi

has adapted a unique economic model of self-destruction. and it’s true that many decisions cannot be called anything else; they certainly don’t smell of logic. another direction of the problem, of course. economic policy and those man-made barriers that have been created that hit the wallet in the refrigerator, this is the ridiculous energy policy that we have been seeing for decades, characteristic of lithuania, this is the fight against the globe, the fight against geography, the refusal of trade routes, trade routes , what's wrong with russia, what... refusal to participate in the chinese shock path and so on and so forth, and as a consequence this leads to the picture today, when forecasts for the development of the lithuanian economy are adjusted towards the negative,

if zero growth was expected in the middle of the year, now how will it come to feel negative growth, and in russian this called: an advantageous geographical position could have made lithuania a transit giant, alas, the miracle did not happen, and eu subsidies could not compensate for the severance of ties for ideological reasons with its closest neighbors, even the port... to lithuanian politicians absolutely sneeze on others. vilnius continues to oppose the possible exclusion of belarusian fertilizers from the sanctions list, and does not care about their global food security, does not care about the hunger

of millions and the unenviable situation of already poor countries that will simply be left without a harvest. rash actions, especially by lithuania and poland, threaten food supplies. security not only of individual countries, but of entire regions and even continents. africa is an example. belarus' share in african rut fertilizer markets decreased in 2022 year from 41.7 to 2.8%. according to estimates based on fao data, the almost complete disappearance of belarus from the list of potash suppliers in 2022 led to a drop in grain harvests in africa by 16.1%. in march, due to...

negligent attitude towards electricity supplies. as for the sanctions and refusal to buy electricity in belarus, in lithuania this is understandable even to a child. all this is being done so that lithuania buys belarusian electricity from its so-called allies at higher prices. if lithuania starts buying it directly from its neighbor, then...it will be more difficult to control it, they are openly finishing off the vilnius airport , which used to be jokingly called minsk-3, due to a lack of staff, the inspection sometimes takes hours, many food outlets are closed, they write that often even buying a cup of coffee is not a task simple. i feel sadness when

i look at the above-mentioned port of klaipeda, it’s a really smelly story there. the alarm is being sounded at the only port in lithuania. the area is constantly on the verge of flooding, not only because of the rains, but because of... the complete drainage of the sewer system, which is typical lithuania's toilet crisis was the first to become concerned not in the country's leadership, but in the european commission, threatening with a fine. despite everything, in lithuania. continued to only imitate vigorous activity; 38,500 households were not connected to the central sewerage system. but many residents of lithuania most likely will not see the klapita tragedy, because they still have to get there, and public transport seems to be dying out along with industry. regional bus routes and flights are dying quietly but uncontrollably, along with them the ability of residents to get to medical facilities disappears. and government institutions located in the city center. as well as for work or leisure activities. the vast majority of trolleybus passengers

are women, elderly people and children. in other words, these are the populations that tend to have less social power, experience inequality more acutely, and are more vulnerable. now let’s summarize the path lithuania took after the collapse of the union. many enterprises were closed and the soviet heritage was abandoned. and labor resources left for european countries, seemingly leveling social failure. the country is small, regular sponsorship from the eu allowed it to keep itself afloat, plus cooperation with moscow and minsk, but now there is no koliyny and other transit, the tourist flow has decreased significantly, the eu has long been an alliance of the poor, and problems are growing like a snowball. all this together allowed the lithuanian economy to even demonstrate strong growth, and many belarusian liberal economists cited lithuania as an example of successful market reforms, but the crisis of the european economy... the final severance of ties with russia and belarus can put an end to this

generally very dubious model. over the 19 years of membership in the european union, european prosperity has not come to lithuania; the country remains one of the poorest in the eu and ranks low on almost all lists of economic or social development. european integration has resulted in the curtailment of entire sectors of the country's economy, and the money allocated from eu funds only allows for cleanliness. compensate for losses. it was lithuania’s accession to the european union that completed the process of deindustrialization of the baltic states. brussels forced the closure of the ignalina nuclear power plant, which at the time of construction was considered the largest in the region. after this, lithuania, and at the same time the neighboring republics, became energy deficient. now let’s turn to the communist in used and his team: to plunge the country into hustak until the end. apparently, such an idea occurred to the chairman. committee on national security and defense. deputies and its supporters have registered a bill that

will significantly simplify the purchase of weapons by the population. the opportunity to buy pistols and shotguns without unnecessary paperwork will be available to 100,000 residents lithuania. deputies are confident that this will strengthen the country's defense capability. now imagine the population, which has been pumped up with aggressive propaganda against russians and belarusians for years, is given free possession of, say, a machine gun. there it is. ideas, this stupid proposal of kaschunas will once again turn into the fact that everyone who starts shooting at their own people, in a real war, this decision will not have any impact, and we see this in ukraine, well... i’m an example, good ukraine, even if all residents are destroyed, buy tanks, everyone

they will be an easy target. another horror story from nausėda, on the eve of the may elections, the danger of war for lithuania. yes, this is all about the same suwałki corridor. first they waited for chevka wagner, no one came, then the belarusian troops, it also turned out to be a fake. but inside the country, vilnius defends itself very democratically, taking away citizenship from local residents for the wrong position. on the seat. deprived of citizenship the famous figure skater margarita drobyaska, ballerina ilse lieppa for the quote “connections with the kremlin.” passport is taken away from those residents of lithuania who refuse to publicly renounce the russian language and support the idea that russia is hell on earth. next year is an electoral year in lithuania, which means we should expect more falsehoods about aggression from belarus to russia, tightening sanctions and other rabid attacks. local politicians seem to enjoy escalating things. more than fixing the sewer system in klaipeda, maybe we can still get down to business, finally think about ordinary people, and

not just salaries from washington, then the lithuanian economy, perhaps, finally, will begin to rely not on propaganda and subsidies from the lord’s shoulders. happily. there are already approximately 20 agreements today with universities, centers, and enterprises of the chinese people. public, if we talk about closer cooperation , then we are implementing three educational joint programs with three universities, the people 's republic of china, with the northeastern university - this is the city of shinyang, and we are working on

scientific and technical cooperation on this basis, that is he was able to help. culture, with china, but our confucius institute it also differs in that we are dealing with issues of scientific and technical cooperation with china, there is an urgent need for specialists who study chinese not just at a basic level, but also have a fairly deep command of scientific and technical terminology,

this is precisely the problem, let’s say was touched upon 10 years ago, when the decision was made to open an institute... for science and technology at bnto, as ksenia valentinovna already said, it is the northeastern university that is our partner in the work of our institute confucius, at the moment, for example , one dictionary of scientific and technical terminology has already been released , its second edition is being prepared for release, which will be supplemented, we have 22 teachers from china teaching chinese at different levels, this is from beginner to advanced to the level for business, this is the chinese language for the workers of the great stone, this is the chinese language for everyone who, let’s say, cooperates with china in the scientific and technical field. how many of your students study from china, and what specialties do they have? priority? today , there are about 500 students from china studying at bnto, these are students who are taking full educational courses, those who came to us

on academic exchange from other universities in china, students often choose. but what i would like to note is that these are very diligent students who are very motivated to study disciplines, who communicate with teachers with great interest, even despite some, let’s say, language barriers, and there are, let’s say, opportunities, thanks to modern technical devices, the ability to communicate, so students

study scientific and technical subjects at a high level, well , i wonder what’s next, how will... cooperation with universities develop further, i would still like to further develop this direction, the first direction is , of course, interaction in the field of education, this aspect is very important for us - joint educational programs, the second direction is holding joint conferences, a conference is being held on our base - new horizons for our young people, this is very interesting. an event when representatives of the embassy and representatives of the chinese belarusian youth come, at the conference they talk about their achievements, guys, about those interactions that they can later take

to a more practical sphere, make innovative projects, we also have... a competition one belt, let one, this is a translation competition, technical, in a technical language, and of course, the scientific and technical sphere, at the moment we are submitting applications jointly with chinese universities, for implementation in all areas, technical and economic, so that scientific and technical issues can be resolved jointly. every week we review the main topics that aroused the greatest interest among our viewers. and subscribers on social networks, we offer you to learn the belarusian language while walking with our tv guides, and we also introduce you to amazing people who live in belarus

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