Аннотация: The deficit of the republican budget of Belarus and the situation in Russial Arctic. An economic essay.
The deficit of the republican budget of Belarus and the situation in Russial Arctic. An economic essay.
"OCTOBER 29, 2021, 16:02. October 29 [2021], Minsk / Corr. BELTA /. (...) The deficit of the republican budget of Belarus in January-September [2021] amounted to Br1.1 billion. " (https://www.belta.by/economics/view/defitsit-respublikanskogo-bjudzheta-belarusi-v-janvare-sentjabre-sostavil-br11-mlrd-467040-2021/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop)
I will not discuss the reliability of the Br1.1 billion figure. It is a very neat and beautiful figure. The data on income and expenses are very interesting, too.
The important thing is that financial employees had to admit the fact of the deficit.
This fact had to be acknowledged, despite the desire of some political figures to look decisive, fearless, independent of anyone, and successful guys, despite the fact that Russia, in a direct form and through favorable prices and other indirect measures, provides enormous assistance to the Belarusian economy.
Let's note, for example, such two important factors of the depressiveness of the Belarusian economy:
1. The launching of the Belarusian NPP, the cost of electricity of which is significantly higher when compared with the cost of electricity before the start of operation of the Belarusian NPP. Now the additional cost of electricity is adversely affecting the Belarusian economy.
What would have happened if Russia had not opened its energy market for Belarusian electricity (energy from BelNPP) - the very market where numerous power plants operate, - the very market that, according to a number of expert assessments, experiences an excess of generating capacity?
2. The launching a repressive mechanism that makes only the most simple, primitive forms of social life comfortable. Any complex, independent forms of life are either criminalized or are in the zone of immediate risk of becoming an object of repression.
Belarus has not yet felt the influence of the fundamental factor of the policy of economic depressiveness.
An active, successful population is inclined to ask questions of those in power, to demand an answer from them and to insist on the change of figures in power. From this simple consideration follows the expediency of persistent policy of economic depressiveness.
The population must be on the verge of poverty and depend as much as possible on state finances. In this case, a political activeness does to a minimum level.
So far, as usual, the attention of Belarusian citizens is distributed between East and West, between economic aid from Russia and some private successes from their own efforts, so the effect of the fundamental factor of the policy of economic depressiveness will become apparent a little later - if the political system of Belarus does not change significantly.
As for Russia, it has to send funds to many countries to achieve its foreign policy goals.
What are these means? These are natural resources ... No new tens of millions of new high-tech jobs are noticeable...
The modern Russia has to start to master the Arctic. Whereas in "ordinary" places of settlement, environmental problems - more and more often - become known thanks to publications on the Internet made by concerned citizens, then access to the Arctic for "ordinary" citizens is difficult.
Those who receive the right to access the Arctic, for various reasons are not inclined to "wash dirty linen in public." In addition to prohibitions and the lack of desire, there are also technical obstacles in the transmission of information.
Accordingly, it becomes possible to extract natural resources while saving on environmental costs ...
In addition to possible purposeful savings on environmental costs, an increasingly noticeable tendency is the inclination not to focus attention of citizens on environmental accidents, wherever they occur (in the Arctic or in other regions of Russia).
In some cases, the incidents are explained by natural causes, in other cases the problem "disappears" by itself.
And if an environmental problem does not disappear on its own, if it is officially recorded, then the flow of information practically dries up ... The public attention shifts to other, new, more and more urgent problems ...
The perpetrators of environmental accidents have the opportunity to get out of the situation relatively painlessly and continue their activities with their available, actual level of technical culture and technological discipline ...
In this sense, all of Russia is becoming a kind of Russial Arctic.
It can be assumed that both the Belarusian economy and the foreign policy stability of the modern Russia and the situation in Arctic - they are interconnected ...
October 30, 2021 10:33
Translation from Russian into English: October 30, 2021 11:46.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Дефицит республиканского бюджета Беларуси и российская Арктика. Экономический очерк".
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