Łukašenka tells trade minister to control private retailers

January 14, Pozirk. The government will control private trade companies and guide them the same way it controls industrial companies, Alaksandar Łukašenka said, after appointing new antimonopoly and tax ministers.
“Your task is to study the experience of Soviet trade and do everything to ensure that there is a range of goods on the shelves,” he told Artur Karpovič, the new trade and antimonopoly minister.
“As a specialist, you understand what I’m talking about. Prices should not jump under any circumstances. You should see this at trading outlets, at stores regardless of their state or private ownership,” Łukašenka said, according to his press office.
He also instructed the new tax minister, Dźmitryja Kijko, not to worry too much about “market categories.”

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