Minsk Introduced Counter-Sanctions. Why They Will Hurt Not the West, but Belarus Itself

Analyzing the resolution of the Belarusian government on counter-sanctions (https://www.dw.com/ru/belarus-vvela-produktovoe-jembargo-v-otnoshenii-nedruzhestvennyh-stran/a-60050342), Belarusian experts agree that the new measures may affect Belarus itself. “The main risk is an increase in food prices.

And although the resolution itself contains several points intended to prevent this from happening, everything will depend on whether suppliers equivalent to European ones are found, as well as on how Belarusian producers behave: they may use the situation and raise prices for their products,” says Andrei Kazakevich, director of the Political Sphere Institute.

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