What is the middle class in Belarus and what impact the aggravating economic crisis has on it? While national surveys show that about 75% of Belarusians consider their income as decent / average, the actual size of the Belarusian middle class may be as low as 10% of population, explains Aliaksandr Aleshka.
Aliaksandr Aleshka explains the structure of Belarusian middle class and effect of the economic crisis on it in the latest issue of the BelarusInfo Letter published by the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC, Vilnius).