Cooperation with China is a priority avenue of Belarus' foreign policy, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko said as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Belarus Xie X...

For the achievement of significant results in the quality and competitiveness of manufactured products, rendered services or performed works, introduction of innovative technologies and modern management methods the Quality Excellence Award went to H...

Registration for both events opens on 15 April.

Changes were introduced to paragraph 21 of the comprehensive safety plan, approved by Decision of the Minsk City Hall No.1069 of 7 April 2020.

BC Tsmoki Minsk extended their losing streak in the VTB United League to 11 matches losing to BC Lokomotiv Kuban 75-101 at Minsk Arena on 12 April.

The program is designed to improve the transport and operational condition of public roads through increased investment in transport infrastructure to meet the needs of the economy and society in transport links.

The source specified that the unemployed include able-bodied citizens, who do not have a job and salaries and are registered with labor, employment, and social protection agencies for the sake of finding an appropriate job. These citizens have to be ...

The program is aimed at creating a new area of economic growth on the basis of forming a branch of the mechanical engineering industry that will make electric vehicles. The program will also enable conditions to encourage broader adoption of electric...

According to the source, the Austrian company makes municipal vehicles and has reached out to MMZ via its Russian partner to suggest using the Belarusian engine instead of an Italian one as part of a suction sweeper the Austrian company makes. The ve...

Borisov has the status of a child-friendly city. This is another initiative supported and developed by UNICEF in Belarus.

The parties took stock of Belarus-Uzbekistan cooperation in various areas, reviewed the state of international and information security and discussed promising avenues of bilateral cooperation in responding to current threats to the countries' nation...

"Union State MPs will discuss the results of the Union State projects to create a sculptural composition for the Rzhev Memorial to the Soviet Soldier in Tver Oblast and to overhaul, restore and preserve the Brest Fortress structures in the memorial ...

The bust of Yuri Gagarin is a gift from Russia. It was made by famous sculptor Alexei Leonov. The project was implemented with the financial support of the international charitable foundation Dialogue of Cultures - One World.

The international agriculture expo Belagro 2021 will take place in the Belarus-China industrial park Great Stone on 1-5 June, Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Food Aleksei Bogdanov said in an interview with the STV TV channel.

In the context of the International Day of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Aleksandr Shpakovsky noted that in Belarus this topic is not only about Nazi death camps and Stalin's repressions, but also about the crimes of the Polish occupat...

On the way to the victory the wrestler from Minsk defeated Turkey's Emre Kutalmis Atesli, Mahama Cho of the UK, and Spain's Ivan Garcia.

The Belarusian scored 197kg in the snatch and 227 kg in the clean and jerk to combine a total of 424 kg. Gold went to Georgia's Lasha Talakhadze combining a total of 485 kg (222kg + 263 kg).

The Belarusian Information Ministry struck the foreign TV channel Euronews off the list of mass media outlets allowed to operate in Belarus on 12 April as the channel's permit to broadcast in Belarus had expired.

More than 22,000 people in the capital city have already got their shots, including 73% of employees of care homes for children and adults, 32% of health workers, 13.8% of social workers and 9.8% of employees of educational institutions.

During the presentation Amkodor outlined capabilities of its own road grader Amkodor G160, the backhoe loader Amkodor 732 with a telescopic arm, the skid loader Amkodor 211E-02, the self-propelled twin-roll vibration roller Amkodor 6223V, and other v...

Trostenets, one of Europe's largest death camps, was located in Belarus. It was not the only one in our country. It is sometimes forgotten that in 1934 the then Polish authorities set up one of Europe's first concentration camps in Bereza-Kartuska in...

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 336,881 cases. A total of 327,087 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei commented on destructive actions of some pseudo-patriots, including those based abroad, who are trying to mar cooperation between Belarus and other countries and who are calling for sanctions.

The Belarusian duo scored a total of 1,440 points to finish just behind Kazakhstan duo of Vladislav Mishchenko and Yelena Potapenko (1,442 points). Third were representatives of South Korea Seo Changwan and Kim Inju (1,415 points). A total of 20 mixe...

Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei ridiculed the recent proposal of Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk to relocate the Donbass peace talks from Belarus to Poland.

For a good mental health psychologists advise to remember the happy moments of your life more often. Buying an apartment in Minsk World will sure be one of them! Especially when terms are that attractive!

"The relations between our countries are based on trust, friendship, mutual respect for the interests. Bilateral political ties are being developed, economic contacts are growing stronger, including at the business level," the minister said.

The tests included two stages (8 and 11 April) and provided for disconnecting all the interstate power lines between Belarus and Lithuania for the sake of analyzing how Belarusian energy installations operate in these conditions.

From the first days of space exploration, Belarus did not stand aside, and with the launch of its own satellite, the country gained the status of a space power.

Mikalai Barysevich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, met with Honorary Consul of Belarus in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Walid Mushtaq.

The Belarusian diplomat and the head of the OSCE Secretariat exchanged views on the current state of affairs in the OSCE and discussed possible ways to strengthen the OSCE's role and increase its influence on the processes taking place on the Europe...

Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei commented on the ‘amazing metamorphosis' in the rhetoric of the Ukrainian authorities regarding cooperation with Belarus as he gave an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel on 10 April.

The two-day visit has an intensive agenda. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev are scheduled to have two meetings. One of them will take place right after Aleksandr Lukashenko's arrival in Baru. Official negot...

“We have never said or done anything to undermine our relations with other states, first of all, with our neighbors. We just have to respond to those destructive statements and concrete actions that are being taken in relation to Belarus by our Wes...

Belarus and India have decided to invigorate cooperation in healthcare, with the focus on the pandemic response, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said. “India has already rolled out two vaccines and has offered Belarus to use the...

The upcoming optimization of the network of diplomatic missions will not affect Belarus' diplomatic presence in the world, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said in an interview with the Belarus 1 TV channel on 11 April.

Belarus confirmed 1,175 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours; another 1,379 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

“It is absolutely understandable that diplomats are on the radar of special services in the country of accreditation. There have been attempts in some countries to recruit our diplomats,” the minister said.

As of 12 April early spring crops were planted on the area of 390,000ha. Progress in sowing these crops reached 76.6% in Grodno Oblast, 74.8% in Gomel Oblast, 50.7% in Minsk Oblast, 23% in Mogilev Oblast, and 10.2% in Vitebsk Oblast. The early spring...

“The decree is aimed at reducing the costs associated with the gratuitous transfer, write-off or sale of property incurred by the transferring party and the receiving organization,” the press service noted.

Speaking about promising markets, Aleksei Bogdanov noted that domestic food producers are eyeing the Asian market, mostly China. “We are actively working with China, and last year China overtook Ukraine to become the third biggest market for Belaru...

Some 1.070 million square meters of housing was built in Belarus in Q1 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivak told the Belarus 1 TV channel.

On 11 April, Belarus marked the International Day of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.

A terror act in Minsk metro ten years ago, on 11 April 2011, was one of the most tragic events in sovereign Belarus.

State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich and Belarusian Forestry Minister Vitaly Drozhzha took part in Belarus' Forest Week campaign in Stankovo Forestry.

The city-wide subbotnik (voluntary labor day) was held in Mogilev on 10 April.

Transport integration of the Eurasian Economic Union was on the agenda of the meeting. The sides discussed the implementation of the intrastate procedures in Belarus for the sake of enforcing the agreement on waterborne traffic.

Vladimir Semashko met with Orenburg Oblast Governor Denis Pasler. The sides outlined the current state and the nature of mutual trade. They confirmed the interest and the need to advance and enhance social, economic, and humanitarian ties.

It is important for all of us to realize that political parties should be mandated by people and work for people. Unfortunately, in the course of the past 30-40 years the political party system became corrupt in the world, the expert said.

Belarus was represented by 692 people. Daniil Dengalev, a second-year student of the BSU Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, placed third in the Code category of the Eurasian competitions in the field of ICT Huawei Cup 2020.

As of the beginning of 2021 Belarus was home to 9,349,645 people while the figure was at 9,410,259 in early 2020 and at 9,429,257 in early 2019. The average annual population number totaled 9,419,758 in 2019 and 9,379,952 in 2020.

The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will discuss joint efforts to combat COVID-19 at a meeting in Minsk, First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee - CIS Executive Secretary Viktor Guminsky told the media...

Belarus is keen to advance investment and industrial cooperation and set up joint ventures in various fields with South Korea. These matters were in focus of a meeting between Belarusian Economy Minister Aleksandr Chervyakov and Ambassador Extraordin...

The participants demonstrated their first aid skills, went through an obstacle course, and took part in a rescue relay.

Over the two months of 2021 the trade in goods and services exceeded $12.145 billion, up by 13.3% year-on-year. Import totaled $5.69 billion, up by 10.3%. Foreign trade surplus in goods and services equaled $756.1 million vs. $396.4 million in Januar...

Belarusian meat processing enterprises bought almost 5,500 tonnes of meat and semi-finished products worth a total of Br28.2 million at BUCE's trading sessions in Q1 2021. Their purchases of meat products soared by 7.8 times in natural terms and by 8...

In March, the base index of consumer prices, which rules out changes in prices for individual goods and services susceptible to administrative and seasonal factors, totaled 101% as against February 2021 and 103% as against December 2020.

In 2021, the year of Belarus' presidency in the CIS and the 30th anniversary of the CIS, representatives of the CIS Executive Committee planted coniferous and deciduous species of trees at a plot of one hectare in the Zhodino forestry unit of the Smo...

Over the past five years, the export of goods from Gomel Oblast to China soared 5.8 times, or by $75.5 million. In 2020, the trade between Gomel Oblast and China amounted to $157 million, up 8.8%. The export to China is estimated at $91.1 million and...

Enterprises of Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno and Mogilev oblasts took part in the first seminar. Similar events are scheduled on 13 and 15 April, with the participation of enterprises of Brest Oblast and Minsk Oblast, as well as the city of Minsk.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “I simply want to warn you, the developers and other ones: if we tolerate even the slightest mistakes in the course of formation of political parties while citing some foreign experience, we will destroy the country, we w...

According to Oleg Slizhevsky, only Belarusian citizens can found and be members of a political party according to the current legislation. The bill provides for allowing only Belarus citizens, who permanently live in the country, to found a political...

The official reminded that work on the relevant bill has been in progress for about two years already. The development of this document was specified by the lawmaking plan for the year 2019.

Belarusian Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong on 8 April.

The BKA satellite was created thanks to R&D efforts of Belarus and Russia. It was successfully inserted into orbit in July 2012. Together with the Russian satellite Canopus-V it comprises the Belarusian-Russian satellite constellation for the remote ...

The prosecutor general added: “Accordingly, we will approach Nuremberg with a request to get access to the materials of the Nuremberg trials in order to select information and evidence related to Belarus. Of course, it is also necessary to send req...

Russian Railways is ready to ship not only Belarusian oil products, but also timber products and fertilizers as Belarus redirects its cargo flows to Russian seaports, Russian Railways Deputy Director General Aleksei Shilo said.

The official said: “We will and have already started studying the experience of work of international tribunals and institutions in relation to the preparation of materials for international organizations for the sake of acknowledging the genocide ...

In his words, the Belarusian space industry comprises over 20 scientific and manufacturing organizations and employs about 4,000 qualified specialists. A major strategic space research system has been established.

The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 333,430 cases. A total of 323,748 patients previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered in Belarus.

“Unfortunately, there is a certain brain drain. Around 200-250 people a year leave Belarus to pursue a career abroad,” Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich said. However, 2,600-2,800 healthcare workers annually graduate from Belarusian ...

Anatoly Isachenko hailed the activity of Gomel youth in various projects. He got familiar with several innovative projects of Skorina Gomel State University students, which have already been implemented.

The Prosecutor General's Office has launched a criminal case to investigate the genocide of the population of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war period, Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told reporters.

The preservation of memory about Soviet heroes became the key deed of today's life for Natalia Ilnitskaya. She is creating an outdoor museum – a Memory Alley – in the agrotown of Mukhavets not far from Brest where every sliver of land is imbued w...

Dmitry Pinevich recalled that Belarus is developing its own vaccine. As this ambitious project started from scratch, the progress cannot be quick. However, researchers will try hard to roll out the vaccine in 2022. By this time, the minister believes...

Orenburg Oblast, in turn, offered Belarus cooperation in alternative energy, the launch of joint ventures on the special economic zone which is under development in Orenburg Oblast, the opportunity to use medical services, namely rehabilitation after...

As of 26 March, around 40,000 Belarusians had received the first dose of the vaccine and 26,000 had already got both shots. By now, the first dose of the vaccine has already been administered to 92,000 Belarusians.

Partaking in the meeting are high-ranking MPs, senior officials of the Belarus President Administration, the state secretary of the Security Council, the justice minister.

As of 9 April early spring crops were sown on an area of 286,400ha. Progress in sowing these crops reached 96% in Brest Oblast, 61.6% in Grodno Oblast, 59% in Gomel Oblast, 53.2% in Minsk Oblast, 11.32% in Mogilev Oblast, and 5.25% in Vitebsk Oblast.

The Belarusian scored 108kg in the snatch and 132 kg in the clean and jerk to combine a total of 240 kg.

“These trains will provide services only to the citizens of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation,” Belarusian Railways stressed.

After a 30-32 defeat at Zaporozhye in the first leg, the Belarusian champions were quickly in control of the second leg, and earned a never endangered 30-23 victory on 8 April.

The company's strategic area is to increase oil production.

A neural network is at the heart of the service. It is taught using virtual servers with GPUs and fast NVMe drives. The developers even shifted the software from Amazon to Belarus since it turned out to be more effective and economical.

Oleg Novitsky said: “I've prepared several songs. Those are Nikolai Anisimov's I Am A Pilot, songs by Belarusian performers My Motherland is Belorussiya and Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a song about attack aircraft pilots and two songs about officers of ...

Olympic biathlon champion Dzinara Alimbekava donated the crystal globe she won in the 2020/21 season to the Museum of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus.

The foreign delegation was headed by Walid Mushtaq, Honorary Consul of Belarus in Lahore, and Ambreen Younis, Director General of the Metropolitan International United College.

The Belarusian healthcare system is ready for the third wave of COVID-19, Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told journalists at the opening of a CT room in Kalinkovichi District Central Hospital.

“On behalf of the Belarusian people and myself, let me express my sincere sympathy and words of support to you, families and loved ones of the victims and the people of Indonesia,” the message of condolences reads.

Attending the ceremony were Belarus' Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Subbotin, Vitebsk Oblast Governor Nikolai Sherstnev, representatives of the Belarusian Wrestling Federation, and local residents.

On 8 April, the Belarusian air carrier Belavia added a Boeing 737-8 to its fleet. The aircraft is the first out of five jets that will be delivered to Belavia in line with its agreement with the leasing company Air Lease Corporation (ALC) signed in J...

Natalya Kochanova is sure that the company needs to advertise its products more in order to find new consumers. It is also important to ensure good working conditions and decent wages for the workers.

Mass vaccination of Belarusians against the coronavirus has started at Central Polyclinic No.34 of Sovetsky District of Minsk.

In the round of Last 16 the Belarusian secured a solid win, 6-1, 6-3, over Spain's world number 56 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in an hour and 15 minutes.

Retirement pensions have been revised nine times since 2016 due to the growth of the average salary. As a result, in 2016-2020 the pension of a non-working pensioner increased by nearly 1.7 times in comparison with 2015 (the real growth was 1.2 times...

Grodno Oblast intends to step up efforts to expand cooperation with Russia's regions, especially with the Tuva Republic and the Komi Republic, Grodno Oblast Vice Governor Vitaly Nevera told journalists on 8 April.