The Belarus Hi-Tech Park, a hub on the eastern outskirts of Minsk, has grown to 750 companies since its launch in 2006, employing 58,000 people and earning US$2bil (RM8.33bil) in exports, according to government figures from 2019-end. — Reuters
MOSCOW/MINSK: For Belarus’s thriving tech industry, it didn’t matter much that the country’s president referred to the Internet as “garbage” and state factories as the engine of economic success. Until now.
The sector could become a casualty of weeks of violent political crisis in the east European country, putting at risk a source of foreign income that is worth 5% of exports.
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