Today is comfortable to live in Belarus is very easy.
Enough not to suffer from tobacco dependence, do not want to spend your holiday in Turkey and did not drive a car. And yet it is desirable to be a vegetarian, do not go to the cafe, even a business lunch and never, never have to connect to the Internet. Performing this simple list of rules, in Minsk, you can save not only the shape but also the mental health.
Enthusiasts are already distributing fliers in Minsk with the instructions how Belarusians need to learn how to think, to get rid of obsessive thoughts about emigration. Proposed to ... Indeed, in the Belarusian internet today you can see a lot of things disgusting - such as drunken Belarusian ministers. While businessmen pledged their own apartments, to be able to pay off suppliers ( in another currency will not buy), deputy minister of economy proves to them that they are to blame, because ...
Officials in Belarus in general behave very strangely. The government with a delay of two months to develop a plan to resolve the crisis, and that not a word about reform, but only talk about the need to raise rates for utility services and public transport. Then dean of the Faculty of Economics, Belarusian State University recommends that the authorities do everything possible to completely block the flow of imports into the country. Belarusians, despite the intense work of agit-prop, to buy domestic do not want to. Loyalty to their products is only 17 % of them.
While the authorities are talking, all of which have long been tired of the crisis on themselves personally felt every Belarusian. A typical office clerk no longer go to eat lunch in the cafe or the dining room, and is porridge and mashed potatoes out of the house. Learned to cook even a bachelors. These clerks are no longer discussing the prospects of holidays in Turkey, as it was in June 2010. Where there is rest - about a third of them were left in the courtyards of the newly purchased cars on foreign currency loans. After the fourth price increase for gasoline in 2011 to ride to work on your own machine for many has become an unaffordable luxury.
In cafes and restaurants, too, began to go less. Once in the store heard the dialogue between two friends who met special ... author) ... - ... Soon be back to allow people to drink in the streets ...
But the clerks are okay. For them the question of survival should not be. In contrast to pensioners. Especially those who are in need of constant purchasing drugs. Pensions Belarusians have recently raised to 13.7%, while inflation for food, according to official figures, over 20 %. Many drugs have risen in price by 2-3 times. ... Now her main phobia - Housing price hike. ...
Parents whose children go to school, two problems at once. First, the summer has become impossible to send their children to camp, too expensive. Vouchers are worth more than the monthly salary of many Belarusians. But this is not so critical. Far more parents today care about how they prepare children for school year. Schools already require parents to buy the paint and wallpaper for repairs. Children's clothing has risen at least twice as.
Travel by car has become very expensive for the salary of a typical Minsker is now possible to buy only 200-300 liters of petrol.