Yaraslau Ramanchuk: “There wasn’t such a contradictory address before. Lukashenka feel uncertain what to do next”

• 30.04.2008, 13:44

Yaraslau Ramanchuk, an economist, the head of the Scientific Research Mises Center in Minsk, Belarus, believes that the latest address of Lukashenka to the parliament was self-contradictory.

“This address is knitted from contradictory theses. In one sentence Lukashenka said that one should earn one’s salary. In another he said that everyone would have $700 salary by the end of 2010. He said that competitiveness is needed, and after that he said that he would admit in the country only those whom he likes. And he is not saying anything about procedures which would secure proprietary rights and investors’ rights. He is saying that there won’t be privatization by the establishment, but in fact it is already taking place. In fact, he is confessing he cannot control it. There wasn’t such a contradictory address before. It demonstrates that Lukashenka doesn’t know what to do,” the economist said.

As we have informed, delivering an annual address to the “parliament”, Lukashenka has stated that there wouldn’t be privatization by the nomenklatura. He has also stated that Belarus is to join the thirty countries most favourable for investment, “to become a capital-friendly country”.