Lev Lvovsky News Today

The Soviet mechanical vision of the economy remains in the imperious offices.

Belarus' income will continue to drop due to sanctions or Lukashenka's Crimea's statements. It will have to borrow more.

The country's financial system was on the brink of default.

Belarus can't afford to delay a pension reform as the Social Security Fund does not have enough money.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is forging closer ties with Russia. Isolated by the West, Lukashenko has agreed to a road map for closer integration that stops short of political union — for now at least.