The expert community continues to follow the developments in our country. Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko also expressed his opinion. He stressed: the Belarusians should not allow polarizing their society. And only joint work and the goal to preserve the independence of native Belarus can unite them.
Konstantin Bondarenko, political scientist, head of the Ukrainian Political Foundation: "The risks are quite high, let us not forget that today Belarus is the only country in Europe that is a social state. It is the last social state in Europe.
In April 2013, King Wilhelm Alexander of the Netherlands made a famous speech in which he said that the social states no longer exist in Europe, that there will be no more social states. Therefore, if Belarus moves away from the policy of a social state, from the principles of a social state, it will face the shock changes that Ukraine has already experienced after 2013 and 2014.
We have already experienced a tenfold increase in utility services, gas and electricity prices. We have already got used to spending 70% of our salary on utilities. We have already come to the point where a number of benefits have been eliminated and inflation has increased.
We have seen all these swings, we have seen the arrival of multinational corporations that have seized strategically important facilities in Ukraine. We see how today multinational corporations manage such facilities as the railway in Ukraine, as well as O&G industry. Today it is foreigners who manage these structural industries. Representatives of foreign structures have appeared in almost every state monopoly. This has become almost a mandatory part of current Ukrainian life.
In addition to everything, political and social instability continues in Ukraine. That is why the Maidan, which we experienced in 2014, was not just the greatest shock. It wasn't a revolution, it was rather a coup, a coup to seize power by individuals for the benefit of multinational corporations. But at the same time, we are still feeling the consequences of this tragedy in the history of Ukraine.
Those who conceived these actions, who conceived the confrontation in society, they did not think about the consequences, and the repercussions can be disastrous. The nation is united by joint work, joint problems, joint difficulties, for the sake of a common goal that can unite Belarus.
Any strike is a blow to the economy of the state. It is clear that the strike is part of the state budget that has not been received. It is clear that strikers do not receive salaries and pensions, teachers, doctors, pensioners do not receive them either. It's all interconnected in any state. An enterprise that fails to meet its obligations to its partners ceases to be competitive, and we live today in a very competitive environment. And, accordingly, the company loses its markets. It loses the opportunity to sell its products under those conditions. And the workers themselves are suffering, as it results in a layoff. After that the enterprise itself is devalued, then comes a do-gooder, who says: "And you know, this is the enterprise I like." And if yesterday its value was 10 billion, then after the strikes the value drops by 10-20 times, and they buy it for nothing just to close, so that it did not compete with other companies of the same do-gooder, who will come and offer his terms.
Political analyst K. Bondarenko: Any strike is a blow to the state economy
20 августа 2020












