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One should also remember that Belarus was the least affected by the collapse or USSR, consistently maintaining the best social and economic conditions: the bigg
by guard-of-terra 15y ago
One should also remember that Belarus was the least affected by the collapse or USSR, consistently maintaining the best social and economic conditions: the biggest effective gdp/person after oil-rich Russia, gini, education reach, smallest child mortality, best life span among cis countries.
Even while it's a small country with no mineral resources, bad climate and no love from the West.
This is going to change, tho, because it was hit hard by the recession and clumsily moving central bank; money inflated 3x in the last year.
- adobriyan 15y agoIt doesn't matter. What matters is that KGB is still called KGB. Our western friends no doubt are going to setup colorful clusterfuck like they did it in Georgia/Ukraine/Egypt/Tunis. Without doubt it will happen if it will pass in Russia.
- geoka9 15y agoThe secret sauce was the cheap oil and natural gas from Russia which had been effectively subsidizing Belorussian economy in exchange for the anti-western rhetoric of its president.
- ajuc 15y ago> the biggest effective gdp/person after oil-rich Russia I assume you mean among countries that was part of USSR? Not exactly: Estonia 18,527 Lithuania 17,235 Russia 15,612 Latvia 14,504 Belarus 13,874 Not to mention countries that have been soviet sattelites like Hungary (18,841), Poland (18,981), or Czech Republic (24,950). To be fair Belarus could still do much worse - for example like Ukraine (6,698). Data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#cite_note-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
- guard-of-terra 15y agoI mean among CIS countries. Baltic states are different thing. Russia has much bigger GINI which offsets the difference.