The head of state emphasized that this is one of the most promising industries. “The global practice shows that the decision to develop electric transport and introduce infrastructure for it was right. Virtually all countries are doing it today. It...

One of the topical issues on the agenda was the price rise. The head of state ordered to keep prices in check: “We are approaching a winter period and in addition to the COVID-19 response, we need to curb the price rise so that people will not have...

"The information regarding the progress in a number of investment projects is troubling. We cannot miss the deadlines, because this will entail significant financial and economic losses. Every ruble counts today, more than ever ," the president note...

The head of state recalled that in May 2021 a law was adopted to protect people's rights while processing their personal data. “The government and the Operations and Analysis Center believe that a separate authority should be set up to supervise th...

Aleksei Dzermant is convinced that the Polish authorities are trying to evade responsibility by putting their national law above the European one saying that they are not going to take orders from the EU and have the right to mistreat refugees.

“A meeting will soon begin at the Palace of Independence. The agenda is diverse: from personal data protection and the updating of individual legislative acts (taking into account new codes and laws) to leather industry and electric vehicles. COVID...

The mission will include experts from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Russia, Armenia, Ukraine. They will assess progress in fulfilling the recommendations and proposals developed in 2019 while studying the operational safety of the first unit of the...

More than 150 heavy-duty trucks were waiting to cross the border with Lithuania at the Vidzy checkpoint, 70 at Kotlovka, more than 260 at Kamenny Log, over 140 at Benyakoni, and over 170 at Privalka.

“The first prototypes were developed in May this year; full-fledged prototypes containing substances that enhance the immune response were created at the end of June. Laboratory tests have been completed, they have shown good results. Now pre-clini...

The new resident company plans to assemble electronic products (circuits). They are widely used in telecommunications and data transmission, medicine, automotive industry, instrument-making and others. The products will be supplied to the EAEU market...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Armenia Aleksandr Konyuk met with Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Karen Giloyan of Armenia.

The Belarusian national football team lost five positions in the recently published rankings of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), going down to 95th.

The parties exchanged views on the state and prospects for the Belarusian-Tajik relations and strategic partnership, discussed a wide range of issues on the bilateral agenda.

Belarus fully supports Russia's initiative to launch the UN Charter Is Our Rules campaign, Permanent Representative of Belarus to the OSCE Andrei Dapkiunas said.

The Belarus-China youth innovation forum New Horizons 2021 will be hosted nu the Polytechnic Science and Technology Park at BNTU on 11-12 November.

The Brest Oblast Union of Trade Unions and the Federation of Trade Unions of Russia's Rostov Oblast signed a cooperation agreement.

Stanislav Zas will observe the actions of troops and special forces that will drill a joint operation to localize a border armed conflict associated with attempts by militants of international terrorist organizations to penetrate into the territory ...

Maria Zakharova dismissed the recent statements of Germany Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer that the final "key to the problem likely lies in Moscow" as completely absurd.

During the visit of the Belarusian delegation to Nur-Sultan, State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich toured a number of local research facilities and industrial enterprises on 21 October.

Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko has met with Vice Speaker for Industry and Development of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia Rachmad Gobel.

On 21 October, in the forest near the training ground of the 120th Independent Guards Mechanized Brigade, bone remains and other items are being examined and removed from a burial place discovered during the investigation of the genocide case.

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei supported the concepts outlined by Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a recent hearing in the European Parliament.

In his welcoming address to the participants of the roundtable "Belarus' Strategic Choice: Global Challenges or New Opportunities" Dmitry Yaroshevich noted that the world is on the verge of off-the-charts turbulence and volatility.

As many as 4,466 COVID-19 patients have died since the infection outbreak in Belarus.

“The working group has been set up on the presidents' instruction. We work almost daily on the draft of the Constitution, which was elaborated by the Constitutional Commission,” the head of the Administration said.

"In some regions nearly 35% of the population (children included) has already got a vaccine shot. There are polyclinics in Minsk and the regions that vaccinated more than 50% of the older population and people with chronic diseases. Today, vaccinatio...

The Minsk World multifunctional complex is a unique place!

According to the diplomat, the use of the exchange mechanism will make the mutual trade structure more balanced through increasing the sales of such sought-after goods in India as lumber, ferrous metal products and petrochemical products.

Memorials will be put up in all newly discovered war burial places, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko told the media in Minsk on 21 October.

The ministers also reviewed the preparations for the upcoming joint collegium meeting of the foreign ministries of Belarus and Russia, during which the parties are set to sign the program of concerted actions in foreign policy of the states - partie...

The current political situation around our states is not easy. We see a mounting offensive. A hybrid, sophisticated offensive against the Republic of Belarus and other member states of the organization is taking place, Sergei Rachkov said.

The Department of Aviation considers this decision to be absolutely groundless. The department stressed that Belavia has never been involved in organizing the transportation of illegal migrants.

BC Tsmoki Minsk edged out Merlins Crailsheim for an 81-77 triumph in Germany for their second win in the FIBA Europe Cup Group G.

“I strongly believe that Belarus should be a presidential republic if we want to retain the country. And the Belarusian People's Congress is being involved not because someone in attendance or the incumbent president is craving to lead it, but in o...

Aleksandr Lukashenko took park in the extended session of the Constitutional Commission on 28 September. Summarizing the results of the discussion, he determined how and who would finalize the draft of the new Constitution before the referendum.

“The prototypes for forwarder trucks and automobile assortment carriers will be produced in the near future and sent for trials. The design documentation for the first model has been submitted to the MTZ prototype shop, that for the second model is...

Green financing is focused on regional projects with positive economic, environmental and social effects, Belarus' Deputy Economy Minister Tatiana Brantsevich said as she commented on the project to place Belarus' green government bonds on the stock ...

Over 180 trucks were queuing at the Belarus-Latvia border at the Grigorovshchina checkpoint and more than 210 at Urbany.

Head of the Presidential Sports Club Dmitry Lukashenko and Executive Director of the Belarusian Special Olympics Committee Larisa Tabolina took part in the ceremony to sign the document at the headquarters of the Presidential Sports Club on 20 Octobe...

The visit will include meetings with representatives of the Security Council of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Defense, and also other agencies that ensure the national security of the state.

On 20 October Minsk blanked Daugavpils 2-0 on home ground. In the first encounter in Jurmala on 29 September Belarus routed the opponents 4-0.

The prize pot for this year's Kremlin Cup in the Russian capital is $1.345 million. The event will be over on 24 October.

The organizers are the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus together with the Standing Committee of the Union State of Belarus and Russia and the Belarusian Orthodox Church.

“The parties exchanged views on the development of bilateral political dialogue and intensification of contacts at the supreme and highest levels between Belarus and India. The parties paid special attention to the state and prospects of trade and ...

"The parties discussed the cooperation between Belarus and Egypt and reviewed the status of contacts in various fields," the press service said.

Keeping in mind restrictions on movement, the age of participants in the tournament and the current recommendations of the World Health Organization to reduce the risk of spread of viral infections, the organizers decided to cancel the event.

Belarus is set to approve the national strategy on intellectual property until 2030 soon, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Subbotin said during the international conference "Intellectual Property in the Modern World: Challenges and Prospect...

The National Landscape Reserve "Blue Lakes" is located in the Narochansky National Park in Myadel District and Postavy District.

A Belarus-Russia joint air-defense and air force training and combat center in Belarus is operational, Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin said at a session of the joint collegium of the defense ministries of Belarus and Rus...

The defense ministries of Belarus and Russia held a session of the joint collegium in Moscow on 20 October.

According to Oleg Gaidukevich, the party decided to hold a Forum of Patriotic Forces in support of the upcoming referendum.

Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin and Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu held a bilateral meeting before a session of the joint collegium of the defense ministries of Belarus and Russia in Moscow,

Given the rapid development of Borovlyany, the head of state did not rule out giving it the status of a town.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 577,932. A total of 550,100 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

The hospital staff told the president that the problem of the new building of the regional hospital has been pending for 10 years. The existing building was built in 1975.

"We need to take a decision on Borovlyany this year or early next year. There is a need to change its status from a settlement in Minsk District into an urban community with all the ensuing consequences. This issue is of paramount importance. We hav...

“We can see that vaccinated people are less likely to get infected, and even if they do catch COVID, they recover fast. This is a clinically confirmed fact,” said the head of state.

I am cautiously optimistic about the current situation with coronavirus in Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to employees of Minsk Oblast Clinical Hospital.

Aleksandr Lukashenko arrived at the hospital immediately after visiting the nearby Alexandrov National Cancer Center. There, the head of state got acquainted with the state of affairs and the organization of medical care for cancer patients.

The countries of the Eurasian Economic Union are not planning to introduce a common digital currency, official representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Iya Malkina told a briefing for the press.

During the previous waves of the coronavirus infection, Aleksandr Lukashenko had also visited several healthcare facilities treating COVID-19 patients, including ‘red zones'.

Iya Malkina said that recently Board Member (Minister) on Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission Viktor Nazarenko and WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge have signed the relevant memorandum.

"In January-August of this year, the foreign trade with countries outside the EAEU amounted to $522 billion, up by a third year-on-year," Iya Malkina said. “We exceeded the pre-COVID level of January-August 2019 by almost 10%. Exports surged by 38....

In 2020 Belarus exported $2.4 billion worth of dairy products. "We have set a good pace. I think that this year we will add $100 million more in export revenues in the dairy segment," Aleksei Bogdanov added.

Cancer services are quite in demand among foreign nationals in Belarus.In this regard, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that cancer services of the same quality are much more expensive in the West. “They charge you for every this and that, they rip you o...

Belarus will produce sufficient quantities of food to meet the domestic market and to export, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Ivan Krupko told reporters on the sidelines of the Belarus Dairy Export Forum in Minsk.

“Over the past five years, we managed to ramp up milk production by more than 10%. In 2020 the output reached 7.8 million tonnes. We have everything in place to increase the output by another 100,000 tonnes; we are set to hit 9.2 million tonnes by ...

The export of Belarusian foodstuffs may reach $6.4-6.5 billion in 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Subbotin told reporters on the sidelines of the Belarus Dairy Export Forum on 20 October.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko continues a series of events to evaluate the country's response to COVID-19. A day before, the head of state held a large-scale meeting to discuss the epidemiological situation and measures taken to counter t...

The defense ministers of Belarus and Russia will take stock of the Zapad 2021 joint strategic exercise and implementation of the joint action plan to ensure the military security of the Union State, evaluate the joint efforts to counter the glorifica...

More than 1,200 haulers were queuing in Belarus to cross the border with the European Union as of 8.00 on 20 October, BelTA learned from the website of the State Border Committee.

Some 1.277 million square meters of homes were delivered for people on the waiting list for better housing (41.6% of all homes commissioned); 950,600 square meters of them were subsidized by the government. Some 683,800 square meters of housing was b...

According to the document, the consulate general shall close on 20 October 2021. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was authorized to take care of the organizational and financial aspects of the closure.

Chairman of the Standing Commission on International Affairs and National Security of the Council of the Republic, member of the Standing Commission on Political Issues and International Cooperation of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Sergei Rachkov t...

Moscow will host the permanent seminar on the development of the Union State of Belarus and Russia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia on 27-28 October.

Vitaly Vasyukov said that the commission considered organizational issues both this year and for 2022 but focused on a package of financial and budgetary documents for 2021 and 2022 relating to the fulfillment of budgetary obligations by the CIS mem...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed an executive order to officially commend the personnel of the Minsk City Clinical Emergency Hospital on 19 October,

The Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization finalized the draft statement of the CSTO member states on combating the glorification of Nazism.

The diplomat noted that Iran would like to resume flights with Belarus. Belavia used to operate regular flights between Minsk and Tehran, but in October 2017 it stopped flying to Iran due to a drop in passenger traffic.

Another group of refugees was discovered on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.

“Those who are lamenting are not from here, but from abroad: from Poland, Lithuania, maybe partly from other states. Why are they doing it? They were paid big money and they need to work it off. They want to live a lavish life, so this is the way t...

I think that the incidence will start declining in early or mid November, the minister said.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke against mandatory mask, social distancing and vaccination requirements.

“The situation is clear. About two weeks ago I once again interrogated (I cannot put it otherwise) the healthcare minister. We both came to the same conclusion that this week and the next week will be very indicative in terms of treatment of diseas...

“Routine consultations and routine surgeries should remain in place, I want to have a action plan on the table. There should be no cancellation of scheduled surgeries and consultations,” the head of state emphasized.

According to him, it is the specialists of the regional COVID-19 response centers that decide on the necessary measures to combat the coronavirus, and then it is the governors. “Why so? Because the functions and roles are completely different. You ...

We need to put an end to the attempts to cash in on people's health concerns, to inflate the cost of certain services at a time of the pandemic, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

“I will see what we have in the reserve fund of the president. I will see how much we have saved. We will use these funds to support our doctors, to stock up on medications and other materials,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

"Today we deal with a delta strain. Therefore, we will develop our vaccine and adapt it to the virus that will circulate in 2023,” the president said.

“The fact that this issue is used by states for the economically purposes is no longer disputed today. Strong states want to destroy their competitors. Strong states - such as, let's say, the United States of America, the European Union. Everyone n...

The government intends to request additional funds to tackle COVID-19, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting with the head of state to discuss the epidemiological situation and the COVID-19 response in Belarus on 19 October,

The meeting focused on bilateral trade and economic cooperation, including joint projects within the framework of the General Agreement on export loan signed by the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of Mongolia.

The project will be implemented in two stages: the first one - December 2021, the second one - July 2022. According to preliminary calculations, the new production will employ at least 115 specialists.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, global manufacturers have suspended their operations creating a pent-up demand, which manifested itself some time later. Domestic producers of metals, polymers, wood and other raw materials reoriented to ...

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 575,856. A total of 547,949 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Aleksandr Lukashenko asked Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich: “I assume that all people in attendance are healthy, right?” After the minister replied in the affirmative, the head of state asked another question: “Have you put them into quaran...

The volume of investments by resident companies of the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone totaled $20 million in H1 2021. Investments in fixed assets rose by 34% year-on-year.

"I have never been against vaccination. Otherwise, I would not have negotiated the Sputnik vaccine with Putin,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko.