Belarusian GDP may fall by 2.9% due to Western sanctions, PM says According to Roman Golovchenko, Belarus is ready to stop purchasing Western goods and "shift particularly to Asian technologies, which have been developing at a breathtaking pace" MINSK, June 6. /TASS/. Belarusian GDP may fall by 2.9% due to Western sanctions, the country’s Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said in an interview with the Belarus-1 TV channel. "The damage from financial sanctions against our country’s economy is estimated at about 1.7% of GDP and trade sanctions will cause the GDP to decline by another 0.7%. T...