Boris Zalesskii

Time for new opportunities Boris Zalesskii

In the first half of 2021, the Republic of Belarus managed to maintain both balance in foreign trade and high growth rates of its presence in foreign sales markets. In January-June, the volume of exports of Belarusian goods and services increased by nearly a third to exceed $22 billion. At the same time the foreign trade surplus increased by almost one billion dollars. Characteristically, such positive dynamics is observed practically in all foreign economic vectors. In the post-Soviet space, integration ties of Belarus with the Russian Federation within the Union State, with Kazakhstan within the Eurasian Economic Union, and with Uzbekistan within the Commonwealth of Independent States are dynamically developing. In Asia, it concerns, first of all, the People's Republic of China, the relations with which are reaching the level of "iron brotherhood, exemplary all-round strategic cooperation and all-weather partnership". Contacts with other Asian countries - India, Mongolia, Iran, Pakistan, South Korea, and Oman - are being updated. In Belarus itself, the points of growth of the innovation economy are becoming complex "projects of the future". This study is about that.