“The Poles are not happy with the ruling coalition. In order to divert their attention from these issues, they [Polish authorities] unleashed this mayhem at the border,” the president said.

"We will not force you to do anything. If you decide to leave, we will help. If you do not, we will do everything to keep you safe," the head of state emphasized.

According to the head of state, Belarus has concerns over the issue. Ukrainians are building up their security forces at the border to stop migrants.

"According to our estimates, on the territory of Belarus there are about 2,000-3,000 refugees from the Middle Eastern countries, in addition to the two thousands staying in this camp. But these are very approximate figures," Aleksandr Lukashenko sai...

"We, Belarusians, including me, will do everything as you wish, even if it is bad for Poles, Latvians and someone else,” the president said.

Up to 200 refugees cross into the territories of Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia every day, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked to refugees at the transport and logistics center.

According to the head of state, about 1,000 migrants have been evacuated from Belarus to their home country. “I would like you to know that we are not going to detain you, push you onto planes and send you back home if you do not want to do that,�...

The migrants welcomed the head of state with applause. The officials accompanying the president briefed him about the living conditions of refugees, food provision and fire safety measures.

The head of state was briefed on the fire safety measures. Earlier, the president gave appropriate instructions to Emergencies Minister Vadim Sinyavsky and Grodno Oblast Governor Vladimir Karanik.

The head of state had a conversation with refugees who still hope to get to the European Union at the logistics hub near the Bruzgi checkpoint. About a week ago the logistics hub was turned into a temporary accommodation facility for refugees. Before...

Belarus and Armenia have reserves to increase mutual trade, Belarusian Forestry Minister, co-chairman of the Belarusian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation Vitaly Drozhzha said at a meeting of the commission.

Belarus' parliamentary delegation led by Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova is taking part in the 53rd plenary session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The refugees stranded on the Belarus-Poland border remain in the logistics center. They are provided with food, bedding and other essentials. A mobile banya was mounted near the facility. Medical assistance is also available. Humanitarian aid is deli...

A joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic will take place in the Oval Hall of the Government House on 29 November.

Mogilev Metallurgical Works is one of Belarus' biggest metal manufacturers. It produces steel tubes, chilled iron shot and grit, iron casting, etc. Over 70% of the output is sold abroad.

The eleventh grade student of the Lyceum of Belarusian State University (BSU) Artemy Syrokvash has won a bronze medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). The competition was held in Bogotá, Colombia.

Poland is using the migrant crisis on the border to draw the attention of Brussels and become the one to get the bulk of financial and political preferences in this situation, political consultant from Ukraine Mikhail Chaplyga said.

Belarus should prepare for the attempts of the West to discredit the referendum on the Constitution, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, political scientist Andrei Manoilo told the ONT TV channel.

“As agreed in Iraq, there will be two flights today and two flights tomorrow taking out 650 people. We will fly back home everyone who is here, even if it is 10,000 people. But we don't know exactly how many more will come. Now a thousand people wa...

The Belarusian head of state emphasized that Russian President Vladimir Putin and he see what is happening and assess these events in the same way. “It [Russia] is their ultimate target. And how to get closer to it if Ukraine and Belarus [are on th...

The statement reads that the Germany-Belarus Friendship Society is alarmed by the current crisis between the European Union and the Republic of Belarus particularly due to difficulties or, to be precise, the impossibility of interaction with the peop...

Belarusian Industry Minister Piotr Parkhomchik noted that the industry managed to hit the government-assigned main financial and business performance targets despite the continued pressure of sanctions and the unpredictable behavior of some foreign b...

The president reaffirmed commitment to expanding cooperation with Bulgaria across a wide range of areas: trade, investment, science and technology to humanitarian contacts and tourism.

Belarus and Serbia discussed the prospects for development of cooperation in science, technology and innovations, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 646,743. A total of 632,470 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Iraqi Airways Airbus A320 that can seat 180 passengers departed from Baghdad at 17:06 and is due to land at Minsk National Airport at 2:15. The return flight from Minsk is tentatively scheduled for 22:15.

The Defense Ministry said: “Due to more frequent flights of various kinds of aviation near the Belarusian border and for the sake of preventing violations of the state border in air space a decision has been made in favor of reinforcing the air def...

Today is the 18th day of refugees' ordeal on the Belarusian-Polish border. Humanitarian aid, including food, hygiene kits, and warm clothes, is delivered daily to their temporary accommodation facility. Volunteers also help in providing refugees.

Amasra is a small town and port in northwestern Turkey in the province of Bartyn.

Tetsuro Shimaguchi rose to fame after working as a sword choreographer in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Tetsuro Shimaguchi is well known in Japan and beyond as an actor, director, producer and founder of the Kamui theater.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “If some think that I hold on to my chair so hard that my arms have gone blue already, you are mistaken. I properly assess the situation and my capabilities. And it is not about the capabilities."

The prime minister noted that the international community pays more and more attention to environmental issues, global warming and depletion of natural resources. Thus, today the use of resource-saving and environmentally friendly technologies is rel...

The flights by Iraqi Airways are scheduled to arrive in Minsk at 19.15, 19.45 and 20.15. Another arrival is scheduled for 02.15 (26 November).

The refugees stranded on the Belarus-Poland border need help and support. Today, it looks like no one really cares about them. In fact, despite the visits of representatives of international organizations, no decisions have been made yet, Natalya Koc...

Roman Golovchenko noted that Belarus shares the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's approach to counteracting protectionism and trade wars, which slow down world development.

The minister thanked Francesco Rocca for coming to Belarus to assess the current situation at the border.

We need to have an agreement on cooperation and mutual understanding between the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Roman Golovchenko said during a web-based SCO summit.

For now the draft Constitution expects the Minsk City Council of Deputies and the oblast councils of deputies to elect members of municipal councils of deputies as delegates of the Belarusian People's Congress.

Speaking at the plenary session of the conference were WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge, heads of parliamentary delegations, heads of the relevant the CIS councils, ministries and agencies of the CIS member states, heads of partner interna...

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei met with President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Francesco Rocca in Minsk on 25 November.

The cost of arranging the flight was mentioned as the stumbling block. “Then Europeans should pay for it. Bastards. They claimed they had appropriated the money, millions and thousands… Not a single kopeck has been received here. By the Red Cross...

“On behalf of the Belarusian people and myself I express sincere condolences over a deadly accident in the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kemerovo Oblast,” the message of condolences reads.

Andrei Savinykh said: “We have to admit that the world system, which was created after the Soviet Union collapse mostly by countries of the collective West, no longer works. A new conflict between the concept of inclusive capitalism and the multipo...

“These norms were a response to the social request to consolidate our national and state identity. After all, a state can be truly independent only with a strong nation,” Igor Sergeyenko stressed.

There is a wide-ranging migrant crisis in the world. This is a fact. The refugees, who got trapped on the border, are not fleeing the good life. They are fleeing the countries which the West had destabilized, with its experiments, color revolutions, ...

Belarus has been collaborating with the UN organizations since the very first days. Yet, according to Anatoly Glaz, so far mostly secretariats visit the border area but they cannot make managerial decisions and are limited in their capabilities. “W...

Yuri Voskresensky said that now after the Constitutional Commission and the working group of experts had worked on the draft document, the document will be polished for a while. Then the draft Constitution will be submitted for public discussion.

Only from 25 to 29 November we offer special purchase terms for certain apartments in the new houses in Minsk World.

Aleksandr Shpakovsky said: “The key question is: we are not changing the constitutional foundation of our state at the root. We are working upon the foundation of the existing Constitution and introducing certain amendments for the future.”

"I believe that we have found a certain balance. This is another step towards the development of people's power in our country," Igor Sergeyenko noted.

What Poland demonstrates on the border is not strength but impotence, State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich told reporters.

The WANO Moscow Center team will be led by the head of the center's peer review teams Aleksandr Rybchuk.

Refugees have been staying on the Belarusian-Polish border for the 18th day already. Humanitarian aid, including food, hygiene products and warm clothes, is delivered to their temporary accommodation center on a daily basis.

According to the ENSREG report, the national action plan reflects all the ENSREG recommendations given as a result of the peer review of the national report on stress tests of the Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2018.

The refugees gathered for a spontaneous protest outside refugee temporary accommodation facility. They are holding posters and demanding that they be allowed to cross into Europe.

"Those, who loudly demanded changes, who wanted the president removed, ousted, killed and so on, oppose the changes, the amendments to the Constitution today," the Belarusian leader said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that the Belarusian People's Congress is not new to Belarus. “It just belongs to the Constitution,” he said. “And it's not about personalities. I emphasize that the Constitution should not mention any specific pers...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is ready to expand humanitarian effort in Belarus, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Francesco Rocca told reporters.

“Unfortunately, we see no action on part of the European Union today. According to our information, an evacuation flight was expected to arrive in Minsk from Iraq today to take back the refugees wishing to go home. For some reason, the flight did n...

The investigation established that a group of exhausted refugees was found at one of the sections of the Peschatka outpost in Kamenets District on the evening of 21 November. The initial medical examination showed that two Iraqi citizens aged 33 and ...

"Belarus is not responsible for what is happening on the border today. There are the root causes and reasons for this situation. The collective West itself created them in the countries of the Middle East and Asia," said Aleksandr Volfovich.

The head of state said that the Constitutional Commission and the working group did not agree on all things in the process of work. “In my opinion, it is absolutely normal,” he said. “As the saying goes, controversy serves the cause of truth. T...

On 25-26 November the National Security Institute, together with the State Security Committee, is hosting the 9th International Conference “Security in the Context of Transforming Threats: Present-Day Problems and Solutions”, timed to the 75th an...

“They want to destroy it as a state. This is not just an issue of President Lukashenko. We saw the same situation in Venezuela where they tried to overthrow the legitimate authorities there,” said Mikhail Markelov.

“We want to do this for our children's future. It is not safe in Kurdistan. There is mafia, no order, no work there,” the woman said and showed a video of what is happening in Kurdistan on her phone.

The conference is an annual forum for the exchange of opinions, research results and practical achievements of recognized experts from among representatives of security agencies and special services, the academic community, government agencies, insti...

The FEZ Gomel Raton resident companies sell most of their products abroad. The export of goods exceeded $1.1 billion. Goods are supplied to the markets of 63 countries. Most of the supplies go to Russia (48.1%), Ukraine (18.6%), Poland (7.8%), Lithua...

“Chaos controlled from the outside is imposed through ‘color revolutions', hybrid wars and information aggression. It is possible to counter this only with the consolidation of efforts, the development of unified approaches to the protection of n...

The advisability of establishing systemic interaction between the European Union and Minsk the way it was established during phone conversations between Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Acting Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel was...

The agrarian forum Uzbekistan-Belarus took place in Tashkent on 24 November. It was timed to the organization of a Belarusian exposition at the agriculture expo UzAgroExpo and the food expo UzProdExpo.

So far most of the emitters of terahertz waves have been able to operate only in lab conditions. Terahertz waves are located between the infrared spectrum and microwave rays. Scientists all over the world are working to create a universal and conveni...

The Bereza state district power plant is one of the largest power plants in Belarus and the largest one in Brest Oblast. The heating energy it generates is used for heating nearby population centers. The electricity it generates is used inside Brest ...

UzAgroExpo and UzProdExpo are the largest industry events in Uzbekistan. In 2021, the exhibitions featured 120 companies from 18 countries.

The Telegram channel of the Belarusian Union of Journalists also cited an opinion of a Doctor of Political Sciences, MGIMO University professor about the Belarus president's interview with the BBC.

"In terms of the Belarusian export, Armenia is traditionally among the top 50 major trading partners of Belarus. The trade between the two countries grows annually. In 2016 it was a little more than $32 million; in 2020 it exceeded $82 million.

The consultations were attended by representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, the Eurasian Economic Commission and the CIS Executive Committee.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 645,069. A total of 630,218 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission will consider a roadmap to create the conditions for the unimpeded movement of goods in the Eurasian Economic Union. Its meeting with the participation of deputy prime ministers of the EAEU member state...

The participants of the meeting are discussing a wide range of issues related to cooperation between the state meteorological services of Belarus and Russia. The members of the delegations are considering the draft concept of the Union State Hydromet...

In January-September 2021 a total of $623 million worth of products were shipped to foreign markets, which is the best result among all Belarus' free economic zones. The FEZ resident companies accounted for 35.5% of the Vitebsk Oblast total exports.

The howitzers were delivered from Germany by several trains. Taking into account their firing range, they can fire into Belarus' territory. The USA has yet to comment on the deployment of its weapon systems and military hardware near the Belarusian b...

The Eurasian Economic Union member states will hold additional consultations on Belarus' initiative to develop the EAEU biological security strategy, official representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission Iya Malkina told a briefing on 24 Novemb...

Belarusians provide help to the refugees but the very problem should still be resolved, Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarch Exarch of All Belarus, said commenting on the situation on the Belarus-Poland border.

The situation on the Belarusian-Polish border remains tense. Polish security forces continue to use gas against refugees, the Belarusian State Border Committee told BelTA.

The remaining players will be selected by the Kontinental Hockey League. Each team will comprise two goalies, nine players, and two coaches. The League will name the final rosters on 14 December, one month ahead of the 2022 Fonbet All-Star Game.

The official said: “The first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was commissioned in June 2021. It has made 5 billion kWh of electricity since the first synchronization or since connection to the power grid. The unit generates about 28 mill...

The official said: “Considering the best world experience, we believe we should enable all the conditions as soon as possible and transition to inflation targeting in order to stabilize inflation and secure the basic fundamental conditions for incr...

A Yak-130 aircraft of the Lida-based assault airbase crashed during a training flight near Baranovichi killing the flight commander of the training and combat squadron of the 116th Assault Airbase, Major Andrei Nichiporchik and a pilot of the same tr...

According to the source, Lithuania uses various information pressure tools including attempts to scare its own population with “the nuclear threat the Belarusian nuclear power plant represents”.

"Belarus issued 87 accreditations to 36 foreign media outlets. Another 40 people have permanent accreditation. These figures speak volumes about the openness of Belarus for the media,” Andrei Kuntsevich said.

“Today, the refugees are going to have a bathing day. That is why we have decided to bring them clean clothes. The clothes are meant, first of all, for women and children, as they will be the first to have baths. All district organizations of our u...

The mobile press center on the grounds of the Bruzgi transport and logistics center has eight places with internet connection and 20 seats for reporters. If necessary, their number may be increased.

"We have brought zefir, chocolate and other sweets made in Belarus," said Yelena Golubeva, head of the main department for culture and social affairs at the FPB Council.

A large-scale opinion poll is running in Belarus in the run-up to the referendum. Belarusian sociologists revealed the details of the opinion poll on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel.

The Mogilev Economic Vocational College is making New Year's and Christmas souvenirs. In the coming weeks, teachers and students are planning to make about 4,000 figurines of tiger cubs - symbols of the coming year.

"The migrants were asking for asylum, they were not behaving aggressively. In response, the Polish security forces used tear gas against the migrants and threw smoke-puff charges into the territory of Belarus,” the Investigative Committee said.

“The European Union and Poland have shown cruelty, hard-heartedness, callousness, duplicity and double standards," Director General of the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya Dmitry Kiselyov said.

According to the MP, a constructive dialogue is necessary to resolve the situation. “Belarus is a well-established legal state with its own laws and rules. These rules are followed by migrants on the territory of the Republic of Belarus,” the MP ...