{"id":566344,"date":"2026-08-07T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=566344"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:13:43","slug":"government-has-yet-to-develop-a-fair-price-formula-lukashenka-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/government-has-yet-to-develop-a-fair-price-formula-lukashenka-says","title":{"rendered":"Government Has Yet to Develop a &#8220;Fair Price Formula,&#8221; Lukashenka Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> said at today&#8217;s meeting on the development of rural retail trade that inflation has slowed. At the same time, he said, the government has still failed to develop a &#8220;fair price formula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;The government has still not developed the mechanism. Initially, it was proposed to monitor prices using the &#8216;Price Analysis&#8217; automated information system. At a government meeting, I warned the first deputy prime minister that you can create any system you like, but it must deliver results. Now they seem to be proposing to mothball it. I&#8217;m not talking about artificial intelligence now, but about managerial intelligence, where there are tasks and accountability,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka noted that prices have increased by only 2.9% since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;It looks fairly good, but we cannot relax \u2014 it is still an increase,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he pointed out that since the beginning of the year, cabbage prices have risen by 38%, onions by 24% and beets by 17%.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Violations of price discipline are occurring everywhere. We have even opened criminal cases,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that prices for some vegetables do typically rise in June and July. This is primarily due to the arrival of early-season produce on the market, which is traditionally more expensive than vegetables sold during the peak harvest season.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also recalled that the Council of Ministers recently reduced the list of price-regulated goods from 200 to 76 items.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;We will see how your decision works over time. But keeping prices and inflation within the planned range is the government&#8217;s responsibility,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka said at today&#8217;s meeting on the development of rural retail trade that inflation has slowed. At the same time, he said, the government has still failed to develop a &#8220;fair price formula.&#8221; &#8220;The government has still not developed the mechanism. Initially, it was proposed to monitor prices using the &#8216;Price Analysis&#8217; automated information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a75bdeadbfa4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Government Has Yet to Develop a \u00abFair Price Formula,\u00bb Lukashenka Says"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566344","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=566344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}