What Lukashenko And Turchin Confessed To
- 19.10.2025, 12:22
That sounded very unexpected.
Debts of Belarusian enterprises are growing, financial situation is deteriorating, exports are falling, and stocks in warehouses are at a 12-year high. Belarusian officials nod at unfavorable external circumstances and pretend that they are not aware of any other reasons. And that's why the confession made by Prime Minister Alexander Turchin came very unexpectedly.
"Sometimes a leader is tempted to make simple decisions. What is a "simple" decision? Produce the product, send it to the warehouse or send it to your dealers abroad without getting paid for it. The solution is ingenious in its simplicity, but it has very big consequences in the form of lack of working capital and a sharp deterioration of the financial situation," said Turchin in an interview with Belarusian TV.
In fact, of course, to take a loan, to produce products to put them in the warehouse - it's no solution at all. Neither simple nor complex. In any more or less normally functioning economic system, a director, for whom profit is important, cannot think of such a solution. Well, because: why?
This simple decision is possible only in one case: if the director does not care about the real state of his enterprise in principle. If the main thing for him is to report to his superiors. Show beautiful figures and say: look, I have fulfilled the plan. I even exceeded the plan. Give me a bonus. Or, please don't fire me.
And, of course, in such a system you can't rely on the fact that the market will adjust something for you. You have only one method. Constant accounting and control.
"So I won't say I'm a strong fan of this method of management either, but some enterprises we will actually take over manually. At least for a period of time. In order to control the processes that take place there," Turchin said.
But you can't keep track of everyone. There are not enough controllers for everyone. Because while you take manual control of one plant, you have three others out of operation. Last week it turned out that the Kamvol factory had stopped, having accumulated debts of 200 million rubles. This week, in accordance with the principles of manual control, Lukashenko sent the former head of the Bellegprom concern Tatiana Lugina to save the drowning enterprise.
Besides Kamvol, on Monday Lukashenko appointed new heads of three other enterprises. That is, the list of enterprises to be rescued has been expanded by at least three more plants.
"They (the new managers) must pull out these enterprises, and we must stop any talk about these enterprises," Lukashenko said.
The enterprises in question are Belshina, Mogilekhimvolokno and Gomselmash. But, as Lukashenko admitted, "MTZ, MAZ and BelAZ are also in a difficult situation"
That is, literally, all our industrial giants, the pride of the Belarusian industry. And they all need to be saved. That's what the authorities are actually doing, changing one head for another.
Alexei Mazartov, "Belarusians and the market".