At present the prime minister, heads of the lower chamber and the upper chamber of the parliament, the head of the Belarus President Administration, and the state secretary of the Security Council are permanent members of the Security Council.

The introduction of severe restrictive measures by most partner countries in connection with the pandemic, the departure from the usual format of dialogue, the widespread strengthening of protectionism have led to a decrease in economic activity on a...

One of the issues raised by the president at the meeting was maintaining stability and security in Belarus throughout this turbulent year. “We have never made any secret of it. I have been saying it all the time. It will be a very challenging year,...

Promotion of economic interests is the most important priority and the performance criterion for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said.

Belarus also expanded its cooperation in politics, trade and economy with other traditional and new prospective partners in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

The minister stressed that thanks to the coordinated assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foreign institutions and the Belavia airline, more than 8,000 Belarusians were able to return home at the height of the coronavirus crisis from March...

“In the turbulent year of 2020, Belarus invested tremendous efforts in defending and strengthening its sovereignty on the international arena, in preventing Belarus from becoming a bargaining chip on the geopolitical chessboard, if we put it using ...

"Strategic cooperation with the Russian Federation, which provided the most significant support to Belarus in the post-election period, continued to be comprehensive and multifaceted," the minister noted.

According to the president, in this process it is important to use the best practices of similar organizations in close countries, for example, Russia and Kazakhstan.

The minister emphasized that the session aims to sum up the country's performance in the previous year and outline tasks for the future.

In the quarterfinal Andrei Vasilevski and Jonathan Erlich battled through David Pel of the Netherlands and Sweden's Andre Goransson 6-4, 4-6, 10-7.

The forum is organized by the Education Ministry, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the National Center of Ecology and Local History, and the International Sakharov Environmental Institute of the Belarusian State Univers...

“We are in a hard process of separation. Sovereign states will not survive in these conditions alone, they can do it only as part of regional alliances - political, economic and military,” said Andrei Savinykh.

The IAOP rating includes both large global leaders and small, fast-growing companies with annual revenues of less than $50 million and fewer than 5,000 employees.

Sergei Kazakevich reminded that upon instructions of the head of state and the head of government the managing company continues working to localize the production of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V in Belarus.

Once the oil well's construction is completed and the geological structure of the Vostochno-Izbynskaya oil deposit is ascertained, the oil reserves will be calculated and will be entered into state records.

According to the source, Belarus-Kazakhstan trade is on the rise and it is up to the agriculture ministries to help it grow. There are plans to advance cooperation along other avenues as well. The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the strong dema...

Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko said during the session that the bill meets the current state of affairs in the country. In his words, it is designed to ensure a systemic and balanced approach to criminal prosecution. It ...

"The MPs will discuss the prospects for new joint programs and projects of the Union State, will consider the progress in the preparations for the Union State measures in 2021 and will review the execution of the Union State budget in 2020," the pre...

The parties discussed the preparations for the fifth meeting of the Belarusian-Pakistani joint working group on agriculture which is due to take place in Minsk.

The official noted that Belarus respects the universally recognized norms and standards in relation to court proceedings. Courts decide in favor of or against open court sessions in accordance with the effective legislation, including for the sake of...

The competitions in Abu Dhabi, the UAE have been slightly moved to the following dates: 16-21 December 2021 (previously announced for 13-18 December).

Belarus plans to submit a draft resolution "Preventing drug use among children and young people" to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives Andrei Savinykh told repo...

In the Year of National Unity the issues of patriotic education of young people and consolidation of the Belarusian society are relevant.

The age of light crude is over. Today most of the oil deposits in Belarus are hard to recover. Belorusneft specialists use cutting-edge technologies, including Plug&Perf, to extract such oil.

“We are facing the so-called the containment policy," Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The foreign minister emphasized that the Conference on Disarmament has established itself as a unique platform for negotiating a wide range of matters related to disarmament, nonproliferation and arms control.

The official said: “The state has created all the conditions for the all-round development of young people. Special foundations of the Belarus president in charge of supporting talented youngsters have been operating for 25 years."

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 281,707 cases. A total of 271,733 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

“It is important to understand that in the face of the security crisis, turbulence and growing contradictions among key world players, the disarmament agenda is gaining a paramount importance for the entire international community," he said.

The export of Belarusian food and agricultural products to Kazakhstan went up more than 20% in 2020, Belarus' Agriculture and Food Minister Ivan Krupko said at a meeting of the joint Belarus-Kazakhstan working group on elaboration of promising areas ...

“The fight against the pandemic is far from over. We are reeling under the second wave, though the caseload is showing a downward trend in all regions. The third wave is most likely to be less intensive, through much will depend on the spread of ne...

"The systemic foundations of international security are being eroded before our eyes. Trust is being forcefully replaced with confrontation, dialogue with an accusatory rhetoric," Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said.

HC Dinamo Minsk lost to HC Amur Khabarovsk 5-6 in the KHL final regular-season match on 23 February.

The Bois Import SA representative Franck Vangendt noted that the company has been buying sawn timber from Baltic states for quite some time, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced the company to seek alternative markets. Belarus can be one of such m...

“Any armed conflict zeroes out social and economic achievements and human values, throws states back many years in their development turning them into a fertile ground for organized crime and terrorism," the minister noted.

Sergey Lavrov also said that the world economic downturn caused by the pandemic has led to a significant rise in unemployment and increased social insecurity.

Work is underway to remove differences in the facility infrastructure across the country, Dmitry Pinevich said. The Belarusian regions have recently received 12 MRI scans, 21 CT scans and 11 angiographs.

“The pandemic has exacerbated old problems such as racism and xenophobia, as well as discrimination against national and religious minorities,” Sergey Lavrov noted.

The Northern Europe quarter combines the comfort of a city life and the environmental friendliness of the countryside.

The document provides for maximum assistance to foreign trade operations on the basis of increasing the quality and effectiveness of customs administration. It heavily relies on new technologies and a gradual transition to digital customs procedures.

“In 2020 the export of the manufacturing industry was estimated at $3.66 billion, with a trade surplus standing at $1.9 billion. We retained a foothold in non-CIS countries. These markets account for 31.7% of our total export. This is a very good r...

This time the organizing committee of the contest has received more than 1,200 applications. A total of 80 regional and zonal rounds were held in October-November 2020. Six oblast and Minsk rounds and also a qualifying stage of the National Academy o...

“In general the meeting was very useful, very timely, productive and sincere. The president of Russia speaks in positive terms about its results,” Dmitry Peskov said.

“Electric transport has been determined as one of the priorities for the nearest term,” the minister stressed.

“According to the National Statistical Committee, China became Belarus' second biggest trading partner by the end of 2020. Russia retained the first spot,” the statement reads.

Belarus and the UAE have discussed a possibility to accredit Belarusian companies that want to ship their products to the United Arab Emirates.

Budpragras 2021, the annual international construction exhibition, will be held in Minsk on 14-19 September, BelTA learned from the website of the Union of Builders of Belarus.

The meeting of the presidents of Belarus and Russia reaffirmed the strategic nature of the bilateral relations, Andrei Rusakovich, Deputy Chairman of the International Affairs and National Security Commission of the Council of the Republic of the Nat...

Good relations between the presidents of Belarus and Russia give hope that bilateral trade will be more balanced, Professor at Belarusian State University Mikhail Kovalev told the SB. Belarus Segodnya newspaper.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Iran Yuri Lazarchik met with head of the Islamic Council working group on cooperation with the National Assembly of Belarus Aboulfazl Amui.

Belarus' World No. 83 Egor Gerasimov was off to a good start in Montpellier as he defeated Andy Murray (World No. 121) of the UK 7-6(8), 6-1 to reach the second round of the Open Sud de France.

The list of staple goods features 62 items, including rice, flour, semolina, buckwheat, oatmeal, barley, bread, beef, pork, chicken, some types of sausages, fish, milk, kefir, sour cream, cottage cheese, some fruits and vegetables, sugar, soap, toile...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent greetings to the people of Estonia as the country celebrates a national holiday, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

Despite frosty weather the specialists have managed to keep working fast in the course of completing construction and installation work and preparing the complex for commissioning. Provided additional measures are implemented, the installation of pip...

Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of Belarus Dmitry Pantus met with UAE Deputy Defense Minister Mattar Salem Ali Al Dhaheri. The good level of achieved interaction was noted as well as the existing potential and ways to further st...

“It has to start not in school but in families. The role of parents in instilling patriotic qualities in their children, love for their motherland, for the place they were born in, for the history of their family should be increased,” the officia...

On 23 February the Timoshenko Shooting Center hosted a shooting competition among Belarus' law enforcement, army and security personnel.

Members of the National Assembly's working group on cooperation with the Austrian Parliament headed by MP Valery Voronetsky held an online meeting with members of the parliamentary group "Austria - Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus" at the Austrian parliamen...

The Belarusian government has approved the state program "Environmental Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources" for 2021-2025.

“The parties discussed the state and prospects of cooperation between Belarus and UNDP, including the implementation of national development priorities, as well as ways to step up joint efforts to minimize the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic ...

The Bisons have finally settled into the top eight in the Western Conference and are now out of reach of other contenders.

Lead Clinician for Infectious Diseases (non-staff) of the Healthcare Ministry, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Head of the Infectious Diseases Faculty of Belarusian State Medical University Igor Karpov has received Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vacc...

According to Vladimir Makei, Belarusians can state with pride that their cities are some of the world's safest ones, that all the citizens in the country are granted employment opportunities, the right to pensions, to free education, and to one of th...

There is no reason why Belarus gets all the attention on the topic of human rights, except for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the legitimate government, Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said as he addressed th...

Vladimir Makei noted that the fundamental and internationally recognized UN documents in the field of human rights protection and promotion call on nations to strive to expand international cooperation and dialogue based on mutual respect and underst...

Nikolai Shchekin believes that Belarus has become practically the only country in the world that managed to maintain its statehood amid the tough geopolitical confrontation between the West and the rest of humanity.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 280,428 cases. A total of 270,289 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

According to the source, the key topics Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin have discussed included the operation of the tax system, manufacturing cooperation in defense industry, the reinforcement of the joint defense systems, and the work of ma...

The next mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will asses physical protection of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP), Aleksandr Dokuchayev, Deputy Head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emerge...

In his words, such meetings offer an opportunity to take a step away from protocol events in order to discuss pressing issues in an informal setting. As a rule, protocol events are accompanied by reporters, representatives of the ministries of foreig...

Apartments in Cannes and Monaco are more affordable than it might seem, especially when these apartments are located in the eponymous houses in the Mediterranean quarter of the Minsk World multifunctional complex.

The money will be spent on creating an additional energy capacity, building a water supply facility and railway lines in sector No.1 Zhurzhevo in Vitebsk's outskirt. The development of the engineering and transport infrastructure will allow raising a...

Fog, snow and ice on roads...Winter is not going to give its positions up yet.

Representatives of the State Secretariat of the Security Council of Belarus led by State Secretary Aleksandr Volfovich laid flowers at the Victory Memorial in Minsk on 23 February to mark the Fatherland Defenders and Armed Forces Day.

Welcoming Aleksandr Lukashenko to Krasnaya Polyana, Vladimir Putin noted that face-to-face meetings have become a rare thing recently. Therefore, according to the Russian president, they carry a special importance.

The minister added that the level of income in 2020 increased by 4%, wages - by 8%.

Flowers were laid to the mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans who died during the Great Patriotic War.

Belarus managed to keep its economy up and running throughout 2020, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the meeting of the Council of Ministers.

“Dealing with the solution of current issues, we must not lose sight of the main vectors laid down for the new five-year plan,” Belarus' Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said.

The main markets were Germany, Latvia, and Lithuania. Companies from these countries purchased Belarusian sawn timber for the total amount of $24.4 million.

In the round of Last 16 they saw off the Indian-Slovak duo of Divij Sharan and Igor Zelenay 7-5, 6-3.

Heads of foreign delegations praised the products of the Belarusian military-industrial complex at IDEX 2021 expo in Abu Dhabi, official representative of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus Vladimir Lavrenyuk told Be...

"The economy in general grew by more than 1%. Industry, especially the key industries (oil, potash fertilizers, and wood processing), had a special impact here,” said Economy Minister Aleksandr Chervyakov.

The head of state expressed confidence that Minsk and Tokyo will continue doing their best to develop productive dialogue relying on trust and understanding.

Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized that it is a truly nationwide holiday which unites many generations of Belarusians in the selfless service to the Homeland.

The exposition features Belarusian meat products, dairy products, groceries, confectionery, poultry meat products, and products made of eggs. All the products on display are certified for compliance with ISO and Halal standards.

Despite the business restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the companies managed to increase earnings from sales by nearly 2% to about Br2 billion. Profit from sales rose by 34.6% to Br176.2 million, with net profit exceeding Br92 million.

The basket contained primarily meat products and cheeses made by various Belarusian companies. Judging by the labels the choice included jamon and parmesan cheese. Although there are more traditional Belarusian foods such as bacon.

Belavia will not fly to Ashgabat till 1 March, Riga till 27 March. Flights to Budapest and Almaty will be grounded till 27 March 2021, to Geneva – till 30 October 2021.

Belgospishcheprom displayed many new products.

People in uniform feel strong responsibility for the future of the country, Belarus Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said as he addressed the military during an official event dedicated to the Fatherland Defenders and the Armed Forces Day in the Pala...

“This year the holiday is filled with special meaning. The Fatherland Defenders of the and the Armed Forces Day is celebrated by every family today. This unites us, and this is especially true in the Year of People's Unity. Concepts such as defense...

HC Dinamo Minsk secured an overtime win against HC Traktor Chelyabinsk 3-2 in the KHL regular-season match on 20 February.

According to the Pul Pervogo, the main part of the talks between the two leaders lasted for almost an hour. After skiing the presidents will have dinner together. Dmitry Medvedev is expected to join them.

In order to control the safe operation of the Belarusian nuclear power plant Gosatomnadzor has set up a center that takes care of informational, analytical, software, and technical support for regulatory activities. This center receives technical dat...

The parties discussed cooperation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Belarus, the priority of green economy and the potential of cooperation in the achievement of the SDGs in regions hit by the Chernobyl disaster.

According to Aleksandr Lukashenko, the production will be launched in Belarus in early March.