The official said: “The concept of the exercise is based on a possible variant of the escalation of the military and political situation with regard to a simulated state. The exercise is supposed to take place over the course of seven days from 10 ...

Big metallurgical plants, oil transportation companies, woodworking producers, and agricultural holding comapnies topped the updated exchange traders' rankings in Q4 2020 of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange.

According to Viktor Khrenin, the analysis of operational and combat training in the neighboring countries suggests that such training has intensified. “Not only in the territory of the Baltic states and Poland, but also in the territory of Ukraine,...

“We have recently agreed that you together with the Russian Federation will finalize the conception and details of the future Belarus-Russia army exercise Zapad 2021. This is symbolic for me, because as a young officer I took part in one of such ex...

In early 2021, ahead of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Women's Tennis Open, Aryna Sabalenka was 10th and, after winning it, moved up three spots with a total of 4,580 points.

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is prepared to finance the development of COVID-19 vaccine production in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that today the staff of the publishing house is proudly fulfilling an important mission to chronicle the history of independent Belarus, to promote spirituality, rich historical and cultural heritage, to teach people to lov...

The Belarusian national landscape reserve Ozery is located in Grodno District and Shchuchin District of Grodno Oblast.

By the decision of the Board of Directors of Belgazprombank, Nadezhda Yermakova was appointed Chairperson of the Board on 18 January.

The Economy Ministry of Belarus and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has held a videoconference organized with the help of the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv.

The Presidium of the Council of Ministers will discuss employment, hidden income and tax evasion by individuals, the sugar and flax industries, efforts to counter drug trafficking, problems related to housing and utility services and the construction...

Igor Kolesnikov is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, a doctor by education. He has been living in Cameroon since 1995. He is executive director of GROUP FORM S.A.R.L, a Cameroonian company that sells and services medical equipment in Cameroon.

The downward trend started to take shape before the holidays and it is gaining momentum now. We are glad to see a rather steady decline in the number of pneumonia cases. However, this trend might slightly change in early or mid February, because this...

The nationwide COVID-19 tally has reached 225,461 cases. A total of 209,208 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Epiphany bathing in BelTA's photos from previous years.

The Belarusian State Academic Musical Theater celebrated its 50th anniversary on 17 January.

The Epiphany Race was held in Minsk on 17 January. The event was organized by the Belarusian Athletics Federation.

On the night of 15 to 16 January, the mercury dropped below 19-24°C in most parts of Belarus, in some places below 25-27°C.

The orange-level weather warning was issued in Belarus for 18 January due to frosts

The winter season is in full swing at the Logoisk ski and recreation complex

The investment project has been implemented with assistance of the state enterprise in charge of recycling secondary material resources. This enterprise allocated over Br16 million while Spartak appropriated Br0.7 million.

Aleksandr Lukashenko noted: “It is not the time to be delicate although it contradicts our national character. In order to survive, we have to tear off masks and call things the way we see them. The beautiful word ‘fake' is nothing but common lie...

“If we continue moving as fast, we will soon begin building homes for people in need of better housing on general terms, including employees of specific companies and enterprises,” Dmitry Mikulenok said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that some of the guests of today's festivities are always in the limelight due to the nature of their work while some people had to come out before the public and boldly and openly express their civil stance.

“This year has forced us to look at the world and at our place in it with very wide open eyes. On the one hand, 2020 put masks on us. On the other hand, it removed and tore off masks from some. We came to know each other better,” the head of stat...

The official said: “This year we will continue building the stations we've started building already in the direction of Slutsk. We don't intend to move towards the center of the city for now. We are going to work exactly on the investments we have ...

Belarus Presidential Aide Valery Belsky said this at the training seminar to discuss topical issues of social, economic and political development of the Republic of Belarus at the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of t...

The second half of the championship will kick off on 23 January.

The Ufa-based enterprise assembles 80hp and 130hp MTZ tractors. MTZ supplies tractor assembly kits as part of a direct contract with 100% payment in advance.

HC Dinamo Minsk lost to HC Avtomobilist in the KHL regular-season match 1-2 in Minsk on 15 January.

The Healthcare Ministry noted that it is a common global practice to start vaccination from healthcare workers. The Healthcare Ministry has distributed the vaccines across the regions depending on applications of healthcare institutions. The cold cha...

The rescued birds were handed over to a local zoo where they will spend winter and will be released back into the wild afterwards.

In particular, in 2020 more than 25 million tonnes of export commodities worth $1.4 billion were transported through the checkpoints operated by the Grodno Regional Customs Office. The foreign trade surplus amounted to $509 million by the end of the ...

The national energy system has undergone repairs of electric and thermal equipment, power grids, and heating pipelines in order to ensure reliable operation during winter.

Three teams of the BSU Lyceum took diplomas at the All-Russian Team Olympiad in Informatics. Team of the Mozyr Club of Young Firefighters also won a first-degree diploma. Two third-degree diplomas were awarded to teams from Gomel.

The leader of preliminary group B HC Horizont Minsk secured a 70-62 win over Kibirkstis-MRU Vilnius.

“This program will facilitate the use of electricity for heating and hot water supply both in the existing housing stock and in new homes,” the press service explained.

The nationwide COVID-19 tally has reached 223,537 cases. A total of 206,676 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Temperatures have dipped to -19C across Vitebsk, Belarus.

The Belarusian People's Congress is materialization of direct and outright democracy, Professor Valery Bainev, Doctor of Economics at Belarusian State University, said in an interview with the SB. Belarus Segodnya newspaper, BelTA has learned.

The State of Qatar is proud of the outstanding level of relations between the two friendly countries. According to the diplomat, since diplomatic relations were established in 1996, the bilateral cooperation has marked several important milestones in...

Stanislau Damasevich from the Mozyr Club of Young Firefighters won a gold medal and showed the best result among participants from Belarus. Andrei Kastsiany from Gomel Gymnasium №51 and Dzianis Lahunou from the BSU Lyceum also took gold medals.

The government should be able to defend itself and its citizens, otherwise it is worthless, Director – Editor-in-Chief of the Belarus Segodnya publishing house Dmitry Zhuk said.

"A controlled chaos creates ample opportunities to to buy everything on the cheap: banks, industries and entire states, which we see happen in every color revolution," Vladimir Pertsov said.

A two-month supply of personal protective equipment or PPE is now in stockpile of Minsk's healthcare facilities, BelTA learned from Belarusian Professional Union of Healthcare Workers.

Special consideration was given to trade and economic cooperation and its results in 2020. The parties exchanged information on the measures taken in the two countries to counter the spread of COVID-19.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko sent greetings to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar, as the countries celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.

The National Marketing Center will arrange a webinar on 19 January to present the online platforms before participants of the Belarusian exposition and exporters, who are interested in penetrating the market of the United Arab Emirates and the Persia...

The company operates in Polotsk and specializes in designing and making special hydraulic presses for general engineering enterprises, railway enterprises, and defense industry enterprises.

Representatives of the Standing Committee of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, representatives of ministries and government agencies of Belarus and Russia will participate in the session in addition to the Union State MPs.

A total of 1,168 projects were financed. Projects involving manufacturing accounted for 37.4% of the total. Those enterprises make lighting equipment, window and door frames, wooden civil engineering structures, tinned food.

The central bank will support liquidity of commercial banks by arranging monthly auctions to lend money for six months. The actions will take place on the first day of the reserve requirements fulfillment period.

Ekoprodshina Director Vladimir Golyshak noted: “According to our estimates, we will need about Br2 million to implement the project, including up to Br800,000 to buy the equipment. The main investor is our founding company – Brestmiasomolprom Con...

Salaries accounted for 64.8% of the total money income, revenues from doing business and other gainful activities – 7.4%, transfers to the population (pensions, welfare benefits, scholarships, and other kinds) - 22.9%, property income and other ki...

The competition of joint S&T projects is held in accordance with the agreement between the governments of Belarus and Armenia on cooperation in science and technology of 31 October 2000.

The source reminded that this Council of Ministers resolution allows raising salaries in state organizations and organizations, in which charter capital the state share exceeds 50%, only if the ratio of labor productivity growth to the salary exceeds...

Agricultural output by all types of agricultural producers (agricultural companies, private farms, subsidiary plots) amounted to Br22.9 billion in 2020, up by 4.9% in comparable prices over 2019.

The Belarusian crew covered 447km in 2:36.55, 4.28 behind the winner, Martin Macik of the Czech's Big Shock Racing Team (2:32.27). Russia's Anton Shibalov came in second, 1.00 back. Third was Russia's Dmitry Sotnikov, 2.04 back.

The introduction of modern information technologies has allowed increasing the volume of shipments of goods, which are cleared automatically. The volume of exported goods has quadrupled while the volume of imports into the territory the Vitebsk branc...

Giant pandas Gong Gong and Shun Shun enjoy cold weather at the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou.

In 2021, the airport will get up to $1.6 million for the project to build the second runway and the necessary auxiliary facilities. Another $200,000 will be allocated for the renovation of the Orsha airfield.

Biting cold weather is forecast to persist in Belarus until the middle of next week.

In 2020, Grodno customs officers cleared over 12 million tonnes of goods going through the transit checkpoints. Over 90% of them were cleared in less than 10 minutes.

The nationwide COVID-19 tally has reached 221,604 cases. A total of 204,500 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Konstantin Kurylev said: “Ukraine has never been independent. Events of 2014 were actually the final step in making Ukraine a state, which is controlled by outside forces. One should bear it in mind from the point of view of building relations with...

In 2020, BUCE posted more than 70,000 transactions in industrial and consumer goods worth a total of Br430 million, which was up by 6% over 2019.

The official said: “Respectively the profitability of the regulatory capital has dropped by two percentage points. But as a matter of principle the 8.9% profitability of the banking sector is quite a good profitability for the sake of ensuring stab...

Ambassador of Belarus to Egypt Sergei Terentiev met with Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat. The parties noted that Belarus-Egypt cooperation in advanced technologies has great prospects.

The banking system needs to finance the real economy sector maintaining a healthy balance, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard out reports by Chairman of the Board of the National Bank Pavel Kallaur and Presidential Aide Valery Be...

“You need to understand that all sorts of sanctions are purely political things. There are no grounds for them. We have done nothing to be targeted by sanctions," the Belarusian head of state said.

Stable prices are of paramount importance in Belarus, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard out reports by Chairman of the Board of the National Bank Pavel Kallaur and Presidential Aide Valery Belsky on 15 January.

This document will help us increase import substitution in the Eurasian Economic Union by at least 10-12% and non-resource export by 22-25% to third countries,” Mikhail Myasnikovich noted.

Belarus is a country of opportunities for young people who can fulfill their potential and achieve their goals here, Chairman of the Youth Parliament at Belarus' National Assembly Yegor Makarevich told the ONT TV channel.

Belarus continues the development of its satellite communications system. In Q4 2020, DRECrypt content management and protection equipment was put into operation at the ground control complex located in the village of Stankovo, Dzerzhinsk District.

Consul General of Belarus to Guangzhou Andrei Popov paid a visit to Foshan Industrial Technology Research Institute in Guangdong Province, China.

On 14 January BC Tsmoki Minsk lost to TTT Riga 61-82, Kibirkstis-MRU Vilnius defeated BC Olimpia Grodno 61-45.

The new codes are aimed at liberalizing administrative responsibility and simplifying the procedure for bringing legal entities and individuals to administrative responsibility.

The parties discussed the status and prospects for cooperation between the postal services, including the possibility of concluding a bilateral interagency agreement on tariffs and multidisciplinary cooperation, as well as issues related to philateli...

The orchestra performed under the baton of its art director Vladimir Belyavsky.

Aleksandr Sidorevich said: “The previous year gave us certain hopes – 65,000 vehicles. Since the figure went down to 53,500 in 2020, it is definitely a fall.” The figure is roughly on par with sales in 2018. In his opinion, the capacity of the ...

Igor Karpenko said: “I am very pleased to be here. You and I are connected by friendship of many years. Although the nationwide New Year charity campaign Our Children is officially over, our communication with students has become a permanent thing....

The official said: “We have to decommission all the small landfills in 2021. It has to be done because they occupy considerable territories, represent a source of pollution of adjacent forests and other ecosystems."

Sergei Aleinik and Aloisia Worgetter discussed the state and prospects of advancement of Belarus-Austria cooperation in various spheres. They reaffirmed the interest of the sides in continuing the constructive dialogue.

The Belarusian crew covered 598km in 4:51.31, 4.53 behind the winner, Anton Shibalov of Russia's KAMAZ-Master Team (4:46.38). Russia's Airat Mardeev came in second, 4.13 back.

The High-Level Group will also review the draft agendas of the next meetings of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Belarus and Russia.

Among them are representatives of technical, physics, mathematical, biological, chemical, medical, agricultural, economic, humanitarian sciences and sport.

"The shareholders will approve the annual plan in March. We forecast the sales in the range of 15,000 to 20,000. Contracts have been signed for 15,000," Gennady Svidersky said.

CT scanners were delivered to hospitals in Lida, Nesvizh, and Novogrudok on 14 January. They were purchased by the Healthcare Ministry using the loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

BUCE and NAIP plan to hold joint business events in Belarus and abroad to promote exchange trading tools and strengthen the country's trade and investment potential.

“It is very responsible and exciting to take part in an important event, which evaluates the development of the country over the previous 5 years and determines the course of its development for the new five-year period,” said the delegate.

The officer said: “Yesterday I instructed commanding officers of army units to bring their units to a higher readiness state. They were instructed to move to designated locations and protect specified installations against the simulated enemy's aer...

"The Permanent Council considered and finalized the draft resolution of the CSTO Collective Security Council on measures to strengthen cooperation with the CIS and the SCO. Work on the document will continue at the next meetings of the council," the...

The source confirmed that negotiations are in progress. The visit is supposed to take place in February 2021 as part of a peer review of the national action plan resulting from stress tests of the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

"He dedicated his life to visual art, giving it all his heart, talent and inspiration. His art is an invaluable contribution to the national culture, the spiritual treasure trove of Belarus," the message of condolences said.

The strategic directions of development of Eurasian economic integration for the period till 2025 were approved by the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on 11 December 2020.

The National Bank attributes the higher-than-expected inflation to the weakening of the national currency, the worsening of economic moods, and the growth of inflation and devaluation expectations aggravated by shocks tied to the supply of individual...

The official said: “The healthcare system is operating and is financed without interruptions. Despite all the problems we discuss today, including the COVID-19 situation, the healthcare system has not faltered. It is the key thing.”

The Belarusian People's Congress will become an important tool to address urgent issues, Ph.D. in History, Dean of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Faculty of Belarusian State University Vadim Gigin told the ONT TV channel, BelTA informs.

No final decision has been made on when exactly the 5G rollout will begin. The official reminded that a 5G working group had been established under the Council of Ministers in order to take into account all the peculiarities the introduction of the n...