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...

MPs are set to discuss the methodology of drawing up and adopting model legislation by the Parliamentary Assembly, to define priority areas of model legislative regulation, to devise a model legislative plan for 2021 and for the medium term.

According to billionaire Andrew Carnegieи, 90% of all millionaires get to that level of wealth through an investment in real estate. Is that true? Is this still relevant? Is it worth investing in real estate today?

“In fact, this will be an absolutely new law,” Dmitry Pinevich noted. Half of the articles were amended. In addition, twelve new articles and two additional chapters were added – the one on information support in healthcare and the one on socia...

The nationwide COVID-19 tally has reached 219,663 cases. A total of 202,446 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Social networks now think of themselves as new censors and editors who can censor the incumbent president of the United States and millions of his supporters, Andrei Krivosheyev said.

The China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone was one of the two locations where the 5G technology had been tested. The local network operates in the 3.6GHz frequency range.

The Belarusian People's Congress is a healthy form of democracy and is an opportunity for the youth to have a say, Chairman of the Youth Parliament at Belarus' National Assembly Yegor Makarevich said.

The parties discussed a wide range of issues of Belarusian-Chinese cooperation and the organization of meetings at the highest and high levels in 2021.

The discussion focused on amendments to the laws on public health and on psychological therapy. These are framework documents regulating the provision of medical care to the population, the head of state noted.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko paid his last respects to the late Metropolitan Filaret, Honorary Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus at the Holy Spirit Cathedral on 14 January.

This document is meant to formalize the commitment to recognize mediation agreements in the participating states.

The work of Metropolitan Filaret was widely acknowledged both domestically and internationally. Under him, all the historical parishes were restored in Belarus. Monasteries and convents, fraternities and sisterhoods resumed their activities.

We reached an agreement that from 500 to 1,000 electric vehicles will be delivered to our country in 2021, so that we will study demand, understand the market capacity, and prepare for production of such cars, the minister said.

The minister also noted that 2020 was a difficult year for industrial enterprises. “Nevertheless, most of the enterprises of the Industry Ministry reported growth, fulfilled their business plans," he said.

The Bolshoi Theater of Belarus hosted the New Year's ball on the night of 13 January.

According to the source, the sides discussed preparations for the 2021 IIHF World Championship in an open and constructive manner. A sincere exchange of opinions took place, including opinions about the matters the IIHF is interested in such as certa...

The new line has been installed to replace worn-out equipment. The cereal flakes division has been upgraded in order to increase the output capacity and enable the production of all kinds of flakes on one line, including instant ones. The new equipme...

Iosif Butko noted: “We will use only proprietary raw materials to make pellets. We have plenty of them. The woodworking shop alone generates about 600m3 of wood chips and about 400m3 of saw dust every month. We intend to make up to 20,000 tonnes of...

The key purpose of the visit was to evaluate prospects of Horizont's developing the territories located within limits of Kuibysheva Street, Masherova Avenue, Krasnaya Street, and Kiseleva Street, including possible applications for and the reconstruc...

The University of Civil Protection of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry played host to a seminar within the framework of the twinning project “Strengthening the Emergencies Ministry of the Republic of Belarus”.

The festival will kick off with Rival directed by Marcus Lenz (Germany). According to the organizers, the film is a mix of drama and thriller and revolves around an unpredictable and unexpected love triangle.

The European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) has certified the Department of Gynecology Oncology of N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Center of Belarus as the Advanced Ovarian Cancer Surgery Center.

The Belarusian national air carrier Belavia has extended the suspension of air travel to all destinations (except Moscow's Domodedovo airport) till 27 March 2021 due to the lack of permission from the Russian Federation.

The delegate noted: “It is an important event that will facilitate the resolution of a number of issues plaguing the society starting with politics and ending with the social sphere.”

The money will be used to improve the physical infrastructure of the healthcare institution. The hospital will buy an oxygen supply unit, air recirculators, remote-sensing thermometers, movable bactericidal lamps, and personal protective equipment.

In December 2020, the index of consumer prices for goods and services totaled 101.2% as against November 2020 and 107.4% as against December 2019.

More than Br1 million was provided by the Belarusian Trade Union of Healthcare Workers in December 2020 to fight the pandemic, BelTA learned from the trade union.

According to the source, equipment installation is in progress at the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. Balance-of-plant voltage is now available. Installed equipment pieces are going through individual tests and hydraulic tests.

BMW IBU World Cup Biathlon 6 will open in Germany's Oberhof with Men 10km Sprint Competition on 13 January.

The history of the award goes back more than 20 years. In 2020, the award was presented to fourteen winners: folk artists and librarians, club and museum workers, teachers, artists, directors and journalists, artists and writers.

The nationwide COVID-19 tally has reached 217,696 cases. A total of 200,132 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

"This triumph in Abu Dhabi was a true gift for all Belarusians on the eve of the Old New Year. We proudly follow an impressive series of your victories and believe that commitment, diligence and iron will will definitely lead you to the top – No.1 ...

In 2020 the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) sold 125,000 tonnes of raw cow's milk of the high and extra grade standards to the tune of Br119 million, which represents a nine-fold increase over last year.

The Belarusian earned the ninth WTA singles title of her career as she eased past Veronika Kudermetova of Russia 6-2, 6-2 in the Abu Dhabi final.

The Grodno Regional Committee of the BRSM Youth Union will be represented by 21 people at the Belarusian People's Congress. The candidates - 12 young men and 9 young women - were nominated at the plenum of the organization that took place at the end ...

In the opening match BC Tsmoki Minsk lost to Russia's Nika from Syvtyvkar 67-72.