{"id":503697,"date":"2025-12-18T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=503697"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:14:42","slug":"lukashenka-on-burning-maz-vehicles-they-are-simply-trying-to-pressure-us-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-on-burning-maz-vehicles-they-are-simply-trying-to-pressure-us-this-way","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka on Burning MAZ Vehicles: They Are Simply Trying to Pressure Us This Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, speaking at the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly, said that media reports about MAZ buses catching fire are a manifestation of competition and that in reality \u201cnothing was burning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cEfficiency and quality are an axiom of the competitiveness of Belarusian products. The tools that are widely used around the world \u2014 so-called lean management \u2014 have been implemented here in a very fragmented manner. Step up work within the framework of the quality mark revived at the state level, which has become our most prestigious award for manufacturers. Only quality and impeccable service will ensure our survival and additional earnings. We cannot continue to sell our products, including abroad, without providing proper service,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAs for quality, I do not even want to talk about it. Let the products be one or two percent more expensive \u2014 MAZ, BelAZ, MTZ, and so on \u2014 but they must be high-quality products. You see what kind of competition there is: every time, a bus supposedly catches fire somewhere, or it is allegedly set on fire elsewhere, and so on. We start looking into it \u2014 and nothing was burning. This is competition: they are simply trying to pressure us this way and show that our products are of poor quality. But if there are questions about our quality, they need to be eliminated,\u201d<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka, speaking at the All-Belarusian People\u2019s Assembly, said that media reports about MAZ buses catching fire are a manifestation of competition and that in reality \u201cnothing was burning.\u201d \u201cEfficiency and quality are an axiom of the competitiveness of Belarusian products. The tools that are widely used around the world \u2014 so-called lean management \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":503696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69440c58b8b6f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka on Burning MAZ Vehicles: They Are Simply Trying to Pressure Us This Way"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}