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00:00:10of Belarus. Breeders in Belarus have developed a high-protein variety of white
00:00:13lupine. The new variety, which is high-yielding
00:00:17and disease-resistant, was named Greek. Lupine is a relatively new crop for the country,
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00:00:27helps Belarusian farmers. New generation greenhouses
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00:00:34Brest region, directly from the greenhouses, vegetables are shipped to the country's
00:00:37retail chains. The new modern greenhouse was created using the latest
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00:02:43Sphere of interest on air, on the first information channel, we talk about
00:02:46significant events in the economy. With you, I am
00:02:49Svetlana Lukinyuk. First, the main topics of today's
00:02:52issue: gold and foreign exchange reserves of Belarus grew by a billion dollars
00:02:56in August. We will discuss the main growth factors together. With
00:03:00the Eurasian Development Bank, banks, with the help of anti-fraud
00:03:03systems, managed to stop theft of almost
00:03:065.5 million rubles, and the export of Belarusian
00:03:09lumber last year reached a record of more than a million
00:03:13cubic meters. How are foreign sales developing this year? We will find out in
00:03:17the relevant department. We will tell you about all this, as well as current exchange rates, in
00:03:20the next 15 minutes. In the structure of
00:03:23international reserves, the transition from the dollar to
00:03:27non-traditional currencies is intensifying, and the share of gold is also growing.
00:03:41in Belarus covers almost 3 months of imports of goods and services. This is stated in the macroeconomic review of the
00:03:43Eurasian Development Bank. Gold and foreign exchange reserves grew by more
00:03:47than a billion dollars in August and reached
00:03:5015.240 million at the beginning of
00:03:53September. The main growth factors are the increase
00:03:57in the value of gold in the structure of reserves and the growth
00:04:00of reserve assets in foreign currency. We will learn more about this
00:04:04from Anton Dolgovechny, Senior Analyst at the Center
00:04:07for Country Analysis of the Eurasian Development Bank.
00:04:11Anton, we welcome you. So, the growth for the month is solid, is it
00:04:14all due to the growth of world gold prices? The level of
00:04:18gold and foreign exchange reserves is more than 3 months of imports, it turns out.
00:04:21Well, look, yes, that is, we will start with statistics again, that is, the
00:04:25growth is impressive, yes, that is more than 1 billion in August
00:04:28growth, but... as we said at the beginning of the year, all
00:04:32this, to a large extent, such a high
00:04:35volatility is determined by the price of gold, in general, this
00:04:38is the main factor that led to the growth of
00:04:42gold and foreign exchange reserves, more than 0.9 billion, there are 9.3
00:04:45billion, of course, the main factor is the increase in world
00:04:48prices by 13.3%, if we
00:04:52look at it by month, and
00:04:54accordingly, this is a very strong
00:04:58increase in the value of gold in the structure of gold and foreign exchange
00:05:01reserves. What is important, in my opinion, to note is that gold again
00:05:05returned to price growth, we see that world central banks
00:05:09maintain demand for gold, and now...
00:05:12it is already quite obvious that China has also joined
00:05:15this, that is, in the second quarter, when prices were falling,
00:05:19it was kind of quietly, it was not
00:05:22visible, not heard after the first sales in the first
00:05:25quarter, and now it has, so
00:05:29to speak, started buying at lower prices, which naturally
00:05:32also pushed gold to grow. For Belarus, I would
00:05:36note that the growth of reserve assets in foreign
00:05:39currency continues, well, this is connected.
00:05:43largely with the situation on the domestic foreign exchange market, that
00:05:46is, while in the absence of National
00:05:49Bank statistics on foreign exchange market operations, I will probably not
00:05:53announce figures, but in general we see that due to the situation on
00:05:57the foreign exchange market, reserve assets in foreign currency have grown by
00:06:001.1 billion dollars, that is,
00:06:03why this is important, it says that the National
00:06:06Bank is increasing the share of less
00:06:09susceptible to market factors.
00:06:12reserves, this is important, that is, this part, if everything is
00:06:15completely bad, can be used there to fulfill obligations or for
00:06:19currency interventions, if they are suddenly needed. At the moment,
00:06:23the level of gold and foreign exchange reserves covers more than three months of imports
00:06:26- 3.2 according to calculations, this corresponds to one of the IMF criteria
00:06:30for the sufficiency of reserve assets, well, moreover, if
00:06:34we look at the situation with
00:06:37external debt, I
00:06:41think that is, well, according to our. estimate
00:06:44actually covers about close to
00:06:4790% of external public debt,
00:06:50this is, well, this is great, yes, that is, this is a very
00:06:54serious indicator, that is, in fact, it says that
00:06:57without any borrowing or
00:07:01additional emergency
00:07:03operations, the Republic of
00:07:07Belarus can quite easily cope with
00:07:10debt obligations. Thank you, this is.
00:07:13Anton Dolgovechny, Senior Analyst at the Center for Country Analysis of the Eurasian Development
00:07:17Bank.
00:07:22The number of registered incidents involving
00:07:25cyber scammers and the amount of damage are decreasing. This
00:07:29was reported by the National Bank of Belarus. For 2 months now,
00:07:32new requirements for banks regarding
00:07:35cyber fraud have been in effect. Each one must have an anti-fraud system
00:07:39tailored to the requirements of the regulator. In August, after
00:07:42the anti-fraud system gained momentum, the amount of cash
00:07:46withdrawn decreased by more than 60%. At the same time, in July
00:07:49and August, attacks on legal
00:07:53entities were recorded. To deceive them, so-called
00:07:56fake bosses were most
00:07:59often used. There are few such cases, but it's about
00:08:02large sums. At the same time, banks, in order to somewhat
00:08:06secure Belarusian organizations, additionally
00:08:09check whether such legal entities actually exist, to which
00:08:12money transfers are sent. More details on
00:08:16the results of the anti-fraud system will be provided by the Deputy
00:08:19Chairman of the National Bank of Belarus, Andrey
00:08:22Kartun. For 2 months now,
00:08:26new requirements for
00:08:29banks regarding cyber fraud have been in effect. I remind you that every
00:08:32bank must now have a so-called anti-fraud
00:08:35system. They already had them before, but with certain
00:08:39requirements, tailored to our requirements, everyone
00:08:42noticed that it is no longer possible to access mobile
00:08:45banking without geolocation confirmation, yes, this causes
00:08:49certain difficulties, perhaps some complaints from
00:08:52citizens, there were at first, now everyone
00:08:56treats this normally, well, and we already see the first
00:08:59results in terms of the fact that the number
00:09:02of incidents has significantly decreased, if we take, for example,
00:09:05last year, on average, last year the number of incidents per month
00:09:09was about 1,500, 1,600, which were recorded.
00:09:13regarding withdrawal of funds and so on, now this figure
00:09:17we have already updated the historical record, one might say, for the entire history of observations, in
00:09:21August we had about a thousand, about 1,000 incidents
00:09:24were recorded, even less than in July, but I
00:09:28hope that next month we will already break
00:09:31a thousand, it will be less. As for the amounts, the same
00:09:35thing, in fact, a decrease of almost 50% in
00:09:38the number of incidents, well, in terms of amounts, an even greater
00:09:41number. a decrease of more than almost 60%, if
00:09:45last year, for example, we had more than five
00:09:49million per month, this is the amount
00:09:52of damage per month, then now this figure is twice as much, about
00:09:552.5 million per month, this was
00:09:59recorded as unauthorized withdrawal of funds,
00:10:02let's say, well, traditionally, of course, the figure does not change,
00:10:05it even increases, 92%, or
00:10:09more of all violations or all related
00:10:13to social engineering, that is, these are exactly
00:10:16the things when some employees
00:10:19of the KGB, the National Bank, classical fraud schemes.
00:10:23introduce themselves to you
00:10:25or citizens, citizens say their PIN codes,
00:10:29a certain hacking of mobile banking occurs there and so on, but
00:10:32here we see the work of
00:10:35banks, that when
00:10:37you click on your geolocation, the bank
00:10:41can already track your
00:10:44traditional behavior, not traditional, just we see that the number of incidents
00:10:48in this part has decreased, but nevertheless, if the citizen
00:10:52himself comes to the bank and asks
00:10:55to transfer money there in cash, for example,
00:10:58somewhere abroad, then of course, this is exactly the most
00:11:02dangerous crime that the bank cannot always influence,
00:11:05well, what is interesting here,
00:11:09of course, if we take, for example, August, July, we already gained momentum
00:11:13in August, a full-fledged anti-fraud system, full-fledged
00:11:16new requirements, so the number of, for example, withdrawn
00:11:20cash has significantly decreased by almost
00:11:2260%, if earlier...
00:13:59Belarusians have always had and continue to have a reverent attitude towards forests.
00:14:02No one needs to explain the importance of preserving green heritage,
00:14:06because it is a national treasure, at the same time an economic
00:14:10asset, and increasing it is not only the task of
00:14:13specialists. The action "Give the forest a new life" year after
00:14:17year gathers those who care about the loss of forest
00:14:20areas. As for the action, we
00:14:23plan to hold it in October. Depending on the weather conditions, we will
00:14:27see. This issue is currently being worked out. Regarding
00:14:30the duration of the event, I cannot
00:14:34say yet whether it will be a week, two weeks, or a month.
00:14:37We will look at the weather conditions, but the action will
00:14:41definitely take place. For example, I want to say that in previous
00:14:45years, about 60-70 thousand people
00:14:47participated in the action. The industry faces the task
00:14:51of increasing the share of forest crops that are created by selective...
00:15:02As for species diversity, conifers traditionally
00:15:05predominate in our country. The planting of
00:15:08hardwoods
00:15:11such as oak, ash, beech, and larch is increasing. In this way, we give a second
00:15:15life to places of mass drying of spruce, which suffer so much
00:15:19from the changeable weather that year after year tests
00:15:22the resilience of the forest fund. By this year, I want
00:15:26to say that about 6,000 hectares of continuous
00:15:30sanitary fellings, which were damaged
00:15:32by windfalls, are currently being
00:15:36worked on by forestry enterprises from other
00:15:38regions in the Grodno
00:15:41region.
00:15:43All Minsk forestry enterprises are working in our most affected
00:15:46forest-lease windfalls. Frequent surprises
00:15:50of nature became one of the reasons for the industry to adopt
00:15:53digital technologies. Today, extensive work is underway to
00:15:57improve the Forests of Belarus portal, which began operating
00:16:01this spring, created as a platform for effective
00:16:04management and data exchange in the field of forestry.
00:16:07Thanks to the system, it will be possible in the future to promptly
00:16:10monitor the state of the green fund in real
00:16:14time, this will make it possible to reduce labor costs
00:16:18and at the same time gain time for prompt elimination
00:16:21of any malfunctions. Anastasia Strelkovskaya, Roman
00:16:24Filyutich, sphere of
00:16:25interests.
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