The bill is aimed at improving the provisions of the current Law on Investments taking into account the practice of its application as well as bringing its provisions into conformity with the legislative agreements of Belarus.

The EAEU needs a common strategy of biological and health security, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

Belarus is in favor of prompt implementation of a set of measures to remove all barriers and reduce exemptions and restrictions to free movement of goods, services, capital and labor, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of t...

As of 1 April 2021 Belarus' state debt totaled Br59.3 billion, up Br1.5 billion or 2.7% since the beginning of the year.

The head of state expressed confidence that many achievements of the UN were made possible due to the ability of Antonio Guterres to organize the process of negotiations, to unite all those who are not indifferent to find the best solutions to a numb...

The Belarusian forward scored twice and was recognized the first star of the match. In the opening period, the former Dinamo Minsk player capitalized on his team's power play twice in the opening period.

The Group A standings are as follows: Canada – 6 points (two games played), Belarus – 6 points (3), Sweden – 6 (3), Switzerland – 3 (3), Latvia – 0 (3).

Rrevenues from postal and telecommunications services exceeded Br1 billion, up 4.9% compared to the same period last year.

The athlete from Minsk Oblast threw 66.3 meters in his best attempt. His Olympic berth became 19th for Belarusian athletes. Silver went to Eduard Mikhan from Gomel Oblast – 51.44 meters.

The MTZ press service reminded that MTZ intends to increase the output of vehicles in the Russian city of Yelabuga to 5,000 in the next 3-4 years. MTZ-Tatarstan is the single company in charge of supplying MTZ vehicles to AO Rosagroleasing.

Tatiana Brantsevich mentioned the Economy Ministry's contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Belarus. She noted: “Belarus is one of the leaders in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We are ranked 18th out o...

The executive said: “We intend to commission longwall No.2 in July. We started working on it in early March 2021. We will commission longwall No.3 in late August and longwall No.4 in late December. It will allow us to reach the designed capacity to...

Belarus has set up an organizing committee of the 25th Belarusian Energy and Ecology Forum and the exhibition and congress “Energy. Ecology. Energy Saving. Electro” that will take place in Minsk on 12-15 October.

The ceremony took place today at the Healthcare Ministry. Deputy Healthcare Minister Dmitry Cherednichenko presented the document to OOO Rubikon.

The largest foreign trade unions of the petrochemical industry have passed a statement in support of Belarusian workers, BelTA learned from the press service of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus.

During the meeting Emomali Rahmon noted that it is necessary to build up cooperation in the Collective Security Treaty Organization due to the complicated situation in the international community, more pronounced modern threats and challenges and the...

Kirill Grishchenko of Belarus defeated Oumar Kane of Senegal at the One Championship mixed martial arts tournament in Singapore.

Dmitry Peskov said: “We can imagine the scale of the conspiracy. It involved not simply the liquidation of the president, the taking of his family as hostages but such complicated actions as the shutdown and blocking of the country's entire power g...

The Museum of the Belarusian Folk Art in Raubichi hosted a master class on decoration of Easter eggs in the run-up to Easter.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 357,233 cases. A total of 347,554 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

"We view Tajikistan as an important partner and are keen to promote products to third markets by joint efforts. In 2020, the trade between our countries almost tripled,” Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said.

Vice Speaker Valery Mitskevich took part in a video conference with He Wei, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to exchange views on the cooperation between the two countries.

Joint exercises represent one of the main forms for training forces and assets of the collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the official said. Seven exercises are supposed to take place this year.

According to the source, the special operation Nayomnik [Mercenary] became a regular event within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2019 as part of the efforts to combat terrorism.

Aleksandr Subbotin hailed significant achievements of the Belarusian agricultural sector, including ensuring food security. “Now we will focus on increasing sales and entering new markets. This is the priority,” he stressed.

The official said: “The forced accelerated transition of state administration, business, and private life to the digital environment amid the pandemic led to a noticeable increase in crimes in the sphere of information and communication technologie...

A Belarusian delegation headed by State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich took part in a meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils in Dushanbe.

Many iconic buildings in Minsk rest on the foundations made using the concrete produced by the famous Minskzhelezobeton company. Today the building materials produced by the industry's flagship are used to build the Minsk World multifunctional comple...

The unification of Western Belarus with the BSSR is of great historical significance. Belarusians received and used a historic opportunity to live together, to defend their interests, to build their lives as one family, Sergei Syrankov noted.

Belarus will reduce export duties on oil and oil products, which are exported outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in line with the Council of Ministers' resolution No.251 of 27 April 2021.

The auditors praised Belaruskali's efforts to optimize, improve, and automate business processes, control the quality of the products the company makes. They also mentioned professionalism and competence of the staff.

Reclamation, land management, increasing soil fertility are the goals of state importance. This is our job. Therefore, I will ask the minister and the deputy prime minister to deal with these problems, the president said.

The exhibition "Belarus - Taste of Nature" is running at the UzFood international expo in Tashkent. The exhibition is featuring seven Belarusian food industry enterprises.

"One of the reasons for Belarus to declare this year the Year of People's Unity was the attempts to shatter our unity. This is why territorial integrity and national unity that we obtained in the course of tragic and controversial events are getting ...

According to the head of the state, the previous year was a real test for the system of the world economic relations: the borders were closed, the long lasting trade connections were destroyed and the states and economic unions refused to meet their ...

According to Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko, key moments in history are of particular importance here. For Belarus and the Belarusians, one of such events is certainly the reunificat...

“Neighborliness, hospitality, desire to live in peace - all these qualities of the Belarusian people are embodied in a peaceful multi-vector foreign policy of the state,” said Vladimir Andreichenko.

“There are boundaries that no one is allowed to cross. There will be no revision of history, glorification of Nazis and their accomplices, justification of extremism in Belarus. This is our principled position,” said Vladimir Andreichenko.

“Belarus is an active participant in all processes, and, moreover, it is treated extremely positively at these levels,” said Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the House of Representatives Andrei Savinykh.

The parties discussed the current state of affairs in the Belarusian-European relations and the prospects for bilateral cooperation between Belarus and the EU.

In the round of Last 16 the Belarusian solved world number 127 Mackenzie McDonald of the United States 6-7 (7-9), 6-1, 6-2 in two hours and seven minutes.

The diplomat said that the Tajik side intends to broadly present the art of Tajikistan and arrange a series of events on the occasion of the anniversary. 5 September will mark 25 years since Belarus and Tajikistan established diplomatic relations.

Mikhail Mishustin said: “On the whole, our trade and economic cooperation develops successfully. Now after the peak of the pandemic situation we are trying to increase the mutual trade turnover. It dropped earlier but we are glad we registered an i...

Roman Golovchenko said: “We continue working on the package of integration documents. On 23 April we handed over 26 draft Union State programs the Belarusian side had initialed to the Russian side. It is a huge amount of work that the relevant gove...

A working meeting with Siemens representatives took place in the Energy Ministry on 27 April. Progress in implementing the project was discussed, including the schedule of equipment deliveries. Siemens technical specialists are now at the constructio...

Close attention was paid to information security in the course of development of the universal portal for digital services and the nationwide automated information system.

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia will resume Minsk-Budapest-Minsk flights from 2 May. Belavia will operate such flights twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays.

All participants of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Tokyo will have to take two COVID-19 tests before their flight to Japan. On arrival they will be tested daily during the first three days.

Belarus and Russia's Tatarstan need to step up cooperation, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko during a working meeting with Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov in Kazan.

Members of the House of Representatives are taking part in the web-based IPU's Global Conference of Young Parliamentarians to discuss COVID-19 response and recovery.

It is high time we drew up a law to introduce legal responsibility for falsification and distortion of the history of the Great Patriotic War, Marat Zhilinsky, Rector of Graduate School of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, said.

Participants of the forum stated the active nature of Belarus-Hungary trade links, the considerable potential for increasing the volume of mutual trade, for expanding the choice of imports and exports, and for raising mutual investments.

Parliamentary diplomacy should become a genuine force that realizes the will of peoples to build peace and trust, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko said.

Searching for new sources of economic growth and new strategic priorities necessitate building a new multipolar model of the global economy, EEC head Mikhail Myasnikovich said in a video address to the subregional dialogue of the 77th session of the ...

Belarus' accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will enable the country to step up export diversification efforts, Mogilev Oblast Vice Governor Ruslan Strakhar said as he took part in a roundtable to discuss Belarus' accession to the WTO.

Launching supplies of Belarusian sawn timber and agricultural products to southern provinces of China via BUCE was in focus of an online seminar for representatives of Chinese companies.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 355,924 cases. A total of 346,148 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

The agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technological, and cultural cooperation between the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and the administration of Mazandaran Province was signed in 2009.

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In Belarus, digital transformation has become sustainable and irreversible, Belarusian Communications and Information Minister Konstantin Shulgan said as he opened the international forum #GBC in Minsk.

The official said: “We live at a time when digital technologies are becoming part of our lives. The main questions being discussed during today's forum focus on information security, digital government, the establishment of a digital state, the dev...

Belarus is mulling over strengthening the role of the government in issues related to the state budget at the constitutional level. This will go in line with the constitutional and legal status of the government.

According to the source, the work of the official website of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was not disrupted. Once IP spoofing was detected, the phishing webpage was blocked. Parties responsible for it are being identified.

"We have adopted a new priority of scientific, technological and innovation development for the current five years, and this is not by chance that the forum is dedicated to information and communication technologies. This shows that today it is impos...

The statement reads: “We would like to bindingly state that the sanctions, which foreign forces and some citizens call for, will primarily affect worker collectives, including their families."

Easter is one of the most important Christian festivals, when believers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. As it also marks the end of the Great Lent, festive tables are full of various traditional dishes and treats.

According to Tatiana Brantsevich, stably performing enterprises should also see the prospects for further development.

The past 25 years have confirmed the effectiveness, viability and expediency of the institution of the presidency, Piotr Miklashevich said.

Proposals have been made to transfer some presidential powers to the government, Chairman of the Belarusian Constitutional Court, Chairman of the Constitutional Commission Piotr Miklashevich said.

“No matter what, the economy is primary: if there are jobs, production, there will be wages and decent living conditions,” the MP said.

Belarus' world number 92 Aliaksandra Sasnovich solved Spain's world number 640 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 in the first qualifying round.

Siarhei Viazovich's crew won the fourth stage of the race, clocking 3:05.24. Dmitry Sotnikov's KAMAZ-Master (Russia) finished second, 2.27 behind the winner. Third was Vitaly Murylev's crew of MAZ-SPORTauto Team, 8.29 back.

Danila Klimovich scored three power-play goals to lead Belarus to a 7-1 win over Switzerland at the 2021 Ice Hockey U18 World Championship in Plano on 28 April.

The participants discussed the agenda for their next meeting (scheduled for 18 May), as well as the issues related to the preparation for an on-site session of the CIS Plenipotentiaries Council, which is due in Brest on 21-22 June.

Oleg Gaidukevich said: “It is necessary to once and for all foreclose any possibility of placing in question the country's fundamental values: the [conventional] family, two state languages, the geopolitical choice, the military union, the governme...

The transportation and logistics hub Bobruisk-Beltamozhservice has been repaired, the utility networks have been modernized, the exterior and the interior of the building have been redecorated.

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia will expand its route map in May, adding to it two new destinations in Russia: Samara and Yekaterinburg. Thanks to this, Belavia will operate regular flights to nine destinations in Russia and will have a total of 4...

In January-February 2021, enterprises of Gomel Oblast exported $745 million worth of products, which was up by almost $200 million year-on-year, Gomel Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Konyushko said.

"Cuba reaffirms its solidarity with Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and strongly condemns the plans to assassinate him and his family and to stage a coup d'etat in the country," the diplomat wrote.

The working group on cooperation with the Latvian Parliament of the National Assembly of Belarus and the working group on cooperation with the Belarusian Parliament of the Latvian Sejm discussed further development of parliamentary ties.

The 9th edition of the International Economic Forum and the 10th edition of the national universal trade fair “Traditions of Orsha” will be running in Orsha from 28 April to 1 May. The economic forum will bring together around 100 participants.

Belavia will fly to the city of Tivat that is located in the Bay of Kotor in the Adriatic Sea (Montenegro), the town of Enfidha, and Island Djerba (Tunisia).

According to the source, cybercrimes accounted for over one fourth of all the crimes committed in Belarus in 2020. Most of them were thefts. Not only organizations but citizens, particularly unprotected population strata and pensioners, suffered at t...

Despite the unprecedented pressure on Belarus and Russia, the cooperation between the prosecutor general's offices of the two countries is reliable, Belarusian Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said.

Goals of the mission include sharing and studying the best practices in matters concerning the organization of workstation inspections and work oversight. The expert group includes highly qualified specialists of Rosenergoatom Concern and experts of ...

Vitebsk hosted the regional casting round of the national beauty pageant Miss Belarus on 27 April.

The country office of the World Health Organization in Belarus delivered oxygen masks with a reservoir, devices for high-flow nasal oxygen therapy and COVID-19 rapid tests to the National Medical Response Center.

Ways to increase exchange trade between Belarus and Kaliningrad Oblast were high on the agenda during the visit of BUCE's delegation to Kaliningrad Oblast. The parties pointed out that the most promising cooperation avenue is participation of Russian...

The policy of sanctions undermines the foundations of free market economy, Professor Valery Bainev, Doctor of Economics, head of the Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Belarusian State University, said in an interview with the SB. Belar...

After the session Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas said that the CSTO Defense Ministers Council had approved a most important document – a plan on equipping the collective rapid response forces w...

Stanislav Zas said: “Unconcealed attempts to destabilize the domestic political situation in Belarus from the outside for the sake of illegally replacing the government in the country after the presidential election of 9 August 2020 have become a r...

The participants of the meeting discussed issues related to cooperation of the CSTO member states in the military-political and military-technical sector, as well as in the joint fight against global challenges and threats, such as terrorism, extremi...

Applications for participation in the 6th annual Easter in Minsk World contest for preschool and school students are closing on 30 April.

Negative processes in the field of international security have been growing and the global security architecture is, in fact, being dismantled, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said.

According to the source, the Belarusian customs service will not provide customs clearance and will not release prohibited means of transportation into free circulation if they are imported to Belarus across the customs border of the Eurasian Economi...

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 354,669 cases. A total of 344,950 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

The parties discussed the status and prospects of bilateral cooperation with UNICEF through the National Coordinator for Sustainable Development Goals, including on the eve of International Children's Day, which is celebrated on 1 June.