Lukashenko comments on price setting and regulation

Prices should be set in line with the rules established by the state, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said while receiving a report from Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, BelTA has learned. “Don't forget about prices. I invited Mr Snopkov [First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov was in attendance] to remind him that my demand regarding price regulation and price setting is not just some instruction or wish on the spur of the moment. I tell him about it every day.

And I would like to hear updates on it. Probably you did not foresee everything in the government resolution, as is usually the case. But if we missed something, it is necessary to rectify it,” the Belarusian leader said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko responded to some talks that “the so-called business has gone sour” in Belarus lately. “When I ask what kind of business, they say that these are individual entrepreneurs who have always caused us trouble. Putting the interests of this kind of business above the interests of the whole country is too much.

If they bring here some goods, sell them, it means that they are doing well,” the head of state said. In this regard, the president recalled that he once gave instructions, including to Nikolai Snopkov, to develop a strategy to regulate this type of business. “We have repeatedly tried to come to grips with these so-called self-employed entrepreneurs who import goods without invoices.

And back then we agreed that we would help individual entrepreneurs who are engaged in such trade, and organize wholesale imports of products to Belarus. “Directly to Belarus. So that they would not have to go around back streets of Russia, Türkiye or China where they do not even get invoices for what they buy and the prices for