Once again, the government has failed to fulfill a number of promises made to Belarusian citizens. “Salidarnastas” lists some of them.
Launch of mass production of Belarusian cars
The long streak of creating the national electric vehicle continued in 2024. At the beginning of the year Aliaksandr Lukashenka showed up at the BelGee plant and demanded that mass production of Belarusian electric vehicles begin until January 1, 2025.
However, officials were already accustomed to the unreasonable responsibilities of the ruler. In the last interview, BelGee director Hennadz Sviderski didn’t even make excuses for not having accomplished the task:
– Five prototypes of the BELGEE eX50 are ready. . . They are still prototypes, and the objective of this pilot batch is to compare the technical and advertising parameters of the machine, as well as its competitiveness.
He clearly referred to the customers of the Belarusian electric vehicle:
– It’s one thing to produce a style designed like an electric car. It is another thing to remove the fuel tank and introduce other devices in a car with an internal combustion engine. This would possibly result in higher production prices compared to competitors.
Launch of exercise at Minsk airport and “Restoration of all roads”
In 2020, Lukashenko said: in the first 2-3 years of the next five-year plan, an electric exercise will be brought from the capital to Minsk national airport. The promise was not fulfilled, of which we are satisfied: in the past it was not economically viable to build a railway line to the airport, and even less so today, with the ban on flying to Belavia to Europe and the low passenger traffic.
In general, making “transportation” promises is one of the favorite activities of the leader, who is characterized by not being responsible for his words. Thus, in March 2024, Lukashenka stated that until May 9 “all roads will have to be restored. “
Most recently, before the New Year he announced plans to connect satellite towns with Minsk by high-speed tracks. However, if fifteen years ago, his statements included just a railway, then in the new version of the old promise – there is a ‘surface metro’.
Cancellation of roaming between Belarus and Russia
The agreement on this was reached in 2018. Initially, the resolution was to come into force in 2022. Then, Belarusian and Russian officials continually stated that roaming would be definitively abolished in 2024.
And again, that didn’t happen. The new promise, roaming with Russia, will be canceled from March 1, 2025.
Start of Repairs at the Red Cathedral
The authorities closed the church in central Minsk in 2022, prompting the need for maintenance after a fire. In October next year, Artsiom Tsuran, deputy chairman of the executive committee of the city of Minsk, said that the reconstruction of the St. Petersburg church. Simeon and St. Helena in Minsk “is going according to plan” and that in the first quarter of 2024 “construction work will begin”.
However, this did not occur in the first, second, third or fourth quarter. The latest news is that the government has asked the cathedral parish to pay a debt of 148 thousand rubles.
Widespread use of the COVID-19 vaccine
A few years ago, Lukashenka called for the creation of a Belarusian vaccine against Covid. In early 2023, Dzmitri Pinevich, then Minister of Health, stated: Widespread use of the national COVID-19 vaccine deserves to begin in Belarus in 2024.
And we are already in the year 2025, but the Belarusian vaccine BelKovidVak is not available in polyclinics. In the fall, there were court cases from Belarusians who claimed that there was no vaccine, but then the Russian “Sputnik Lite” was introduced.
The White Coats editorial: “It is clear that the plan for 2024 has failed miserably: production of the Belarusian vaccine has begun. “
Belarusian launch
Few people remember, but once the authorities said that Belarus would become a major producer of satellites in the near future. Periodically, officials made promises on specific dates of launches.
For example, in 2021, the head of the Academy of Sciences, Uladzimir Husakou, claimed about cooperation with the Russians:
– A constellation of two spacecraft is planned, with the first one scheduled for launch in 2024.
Last year, the government mentioned this promise.
Launch of the Nezhynski Mining and Processing Cluster
Almost a decade ago, Lukashenka and Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev assured: when the second enterprise for the production of potash fertilisers would start working in our country, Belarusians would live much better.
However, the structural paintings in Luban district have not yet been completed. They were scheduled to be completed in 2023, but were not carried out in 2024. In addition, it turned out that the scenario of the Nezhynski mining and processing plant is deplorable.
Gutseriev said that after the sanctions were imposed, he “lost interest in this project” and passed it on to the “Belarusian state,” definitively responding to “nationalization in essence. ”
Another Lukashenka’s ‘mega-manager’ said the following about the Nezhynski mining and processing plant in 2024: ‘Please, restore order, as far as it is possible at the construction site’.
A year and a half ago, officials said that the the Nezhynski mining and processing plant would start working by 1 June 2025. However, it is already evident that this promise will fail as well.