It is worth quoting in full.
Can anyone confirm or refute what is said here?
>Alan Woods
>London May 25th, 2000
>
>Footnote on Belarus
>
>In Belarus there has been hardly any change in the past ten years. Very
>little has been privatised.
>Belarus has therefore avoided the economic catastrophe that Russia has
>experienced. Rates of
>growth have been high:
>
> 1996: 3 percent
> 1997: 17 percent
> 1998: 11 percent
> 1999: 10 percent
>
>As a result, while Russia (and still more the Ukraine) has regressed, the
>economy of Belarus has
>recovered the level of ten years ago. True, inflation has been high and
>recently there has been
>some decline in living standards, but nothing like the horrendous collapse
>in Russia and other
>ex-Soviet Republics.
Chris Burford London
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At 22:26 27/05/00 -0300, you wrote:
>Here is a good analysis on Putin from Socialist appeal.
>Those trotskysts guys make some interesting analysis,
>althought they are too much orthodox to my taste (all
>those articles end by invinting left wing parties to
>emulate what Lenin and Trotsky did in 1917..)
>
>Putin, Rasputin and Kerensky
>http://www.marxist.com/Russia/putin500.html
>
> Alexandre Fenelon