The President visits Horizont today. He is getting familiar with the work of a large holding. It consists of 16 commercial organizations employing about 4 000 employees.
Economy
Zhodino-based BELAZ increases sales to foreign markets. Increased demandforcoalfrommajorconsumers, such as China, encourages coal mining companies to buy our high-performance dump trucks.
The Great Stone is beginning to form a list of contenders in the competition of innovative startups. This will be handled by a new establishment: a Chinese-Belarusian center for cooperation in the field of scientific and technological achievements.
Belarus' GDP growth this year should reach 1.8%. The indicator is ambitious, but achievable. This was stated by Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko.
The main wish today - let 2021 - the year of the metal bull -be easier for humanity than theyear 2020. This message is most often heard in congratulations to each other.
It was paid by micro-organizations engaged in maintenance and repair of vehicles. It should be noted that organizations, paying a single tax this year, will be able to move to the simplified system of taxation from the next year.
Each enterprise in the country sums up results and sets further milestones for the new year. For instance, Belaruskali will set a record in ore mining production.
The deficit of the national budget for 2021 is planned to be covered at the expense of previous balances and cost optimization.
The services, tourism, transport, catering sectors were affected by the economy in 2020. And the enterprises had to maneuver between the lack of spare parts, the termination of contracts and closed borders.
Belarus and Russia have agreed on the gas price for 2021. The protocol on the pricing procedure was signed by our country's Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich and Gazprom head Alexei Miller.
Today, Alexander Lukashenko has signed the decree on changes in salaries paid to workers of budgetary organisations. From July 1, the amount of funds allocated for bonuses will be increased from 5 to 20 percent of the salaries of workers.
Belarus is interested in the arrival of Armenian business in the country. Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko stated this today at the meeting with the Armenian Ambassador.
Grodno Region and the Chinese province of Hainan have established twinning relations. The signing ceremony took place online.
Attempts to undermine the socio-political situation in Belarus are targeted against the Union State. This was stated by Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko during a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.
The VIII International forum Anticontrafact - 2020 has started in Minsk. It brought togethet 500 experts from 15 countries.
The Union State budget will amount to 4.7 bn Russian rubles. It was approved at the 59th Russia-Belarus PA which was held online this year.
Details of the payment of the transport tax have become known today. The Ministry of Finance has published a draft law "On Amendments to the Tax Code" from next year.
Zhabinka sugar plant plans to increase its profit next year. The main sales market is Russia. It is worth noting that the work of sugar factories has a certain specificity.
The progressive development of the Belarusian society haunts Western countries, which see the future of the post-Soviet space somewhat differently.
More than a hundred new products have been created and introduced into production by Belarusian agricultural machine builders.
New drafts of the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Procedural Code were adopted by the deputies in the second reading.
The epidemic situation and the economy of the central region were discussed at a meeting of the President and the Chairman of the Minsk Region Executive Committee.
Next year, special attention will be paid to the salaries of low income specialists. We are talking about employees in education, culture and social security.
The Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of Belarus is updating the list of socially important goods. Monitoring of prices was discussed in the Council of the Republic.












