What Minsk residents save on? (video)
The National Statistical Committee published the data on how Belarusians allocated their expenses in Q3 2016.
The bulk of revenues is spent on food, over 3% of income is used for buying alcoholic beverages and tobacco products; nearly a third of the average family budget covers purchasing non-food items and nearly a quarter of it is needed to pay utility bills.
Compared to the same period last year, in 2016 the Belarusians began to spend more on housing and utilities and medical services, as well as telecommunication services.
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Belsat TV has asked Minsk residents how they woke up to the fact of the rise in utility tariffs and prices.
“Nothing has changed. I live the way I always lived,” a woman says.
“Earlier I could afford to buy pork or minced chicken; now I have money enough to buy only sausages. I have four children,” another interviewee says.
“I do not know how we would survive If we did not have food products from the village,” a Minsk resident says.
