Belarus has plans to once again approach some countries and bring up the issue of responsibility of the SS members, Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told reporters before the 32nd meeting of the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General of ...

“The sports sector is in a difficult situation today. The International Olympic Committee, the majority of the international sports organizations have imposed various sanctions on our athletes. To put it bluntly, sports officials have simply got ri...

About 1,200 new Family Capital accounts are opened in Belarus every month, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko said at a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic.

"Natural heritage is of great value. Belarus is famous for its vast forests and numerous lakes. The head of state has repeatedly stressed that the natural landscape of Belarus is our wealth and pride," Ruslan Parkhamovich said.

As of 24 June, Vitebsk Oblast agricultural workers cut down grass on 53.7% of the targeted area. Progress was at 89.7% in Grodno Oblast, 96.8% in Minsk Oblast and 85.5% in Mogilev Oblast. Brest Oblast and Gomel Oblast fulfilled the first cutting targ...

The economic crisis began before the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian political scientist Nikolai Starikov said in an interview with BelTA.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin set an example of candid discussion and commitment to finding solutions that accommodate the interests of both partners, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov ...

BelTA journalists have received three diplomas and three statuettes of the 18th edition of the Golden Letter mass media competition, BelTA has learned.

Igor Zavalei and Emanuele Dessi discussed bilateral cooperation in humanitarian sphere, including the possibility of resuming the solidarity program, which allows underage Belarusian citizens to stay with Italian families temporarily.

According to Vladimir Andreichenko, due to historical reasons matters concerning land are of great importance for Belarusians. “Because land is the foundation of wellbeing of our people and the might of any state. Our land regulations are in need o...

Participants of the second edition of Belarus' Media Community Forum laid flowers to the Eternal Fire of the memorial complex in honor of Soviet soldiers-liberators, partisans and underground fighters.

In the singles opener Aliaksandra Sasnovich lost to France's Caroline Garcia, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6.

A Belarus-Latin America forum will take place in Moscow at the Business and Cultural Complex of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia on 28 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the diplomatic mission.

According to the source, during the meeting in Moscow the sides discussed the military political situation, matters of defense technology cooperation between the two ministries, preparations for the Belarusian-Russian operational exercise Shchit Soyu...

The first deals on the delivery of L-lysine sulfate produced by the Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation (BNBC) to Bashkortostan have been made on the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE), Eduard Belsky, First Deputy Chairman of th...

"He is already a puppet. Even his own safety is out of his hands. He will be killed when the UK and the United States decide to make him a martyr,” said Yuri Podolyaka.

The state of Ukraine will disappear from the political map of the world, Ukrainian political commentator Yuri Podolyaka said in an interview with the V Teme [On Point] online project on BelTA's YouTube channel.

Yuri Podolyaka added that winter would bring a lot of positive changes in the way Ukrainians think of Russia.

Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin is in Moscow to attend a meeting of the CIS Defense Ministers Council on 24 June.

In Europe there are two opinions and two positions on the Ukrainian crisis, Ukrainian political commentator Yuri Podolyaka said in an interview with the V Teme [On Point] online project on BelTA's YouTube channel.

In the past 24 hours Belarus admitted 156 Ukrainians from the territory of Poland, 31 – from Lithuania and three – from Latvia.

“Today and tomorrow the two presidents will have informal talks in Zavidovo. The official program is scheduled for Saturday,” the Telegram channel reports. The working meeting of the two leaders will be held in St. Petersburg on 25 June.

“It is no secret that the information warfare continues. It is not subsiding. They will not leave us alone. We have difficult years ahead, and our media should become truly effective and popular,” Vladimir Pertsov added.

The final session of the first-convocation Youth Council (parliament) took place at premises of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus on 23 June.

After visiting the main booths of the expo Konstantin Shulgan noted that in the modern world national security is directly connected to information security and it is one of the key avenues of development right now.

Lithuania and NATO countries are putting out feelers to gauge how far Russia is ready to go to defend its interests, Ukrainian political commentator Yuri Podolyaka said in an interview with the V Teme [On Point] online project on BelTA's YouTube chan...

Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved and Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin signed a resolution to set up a joint investigative and operational group to investigate criminal cases regarding the genocide.

The strength of all media outlets lies in the truth, Belarus' Information Minister Vladimir Pertsov told journalists at the 2nd forum of Belarus' media community “Regional Media in the Digital Space: Best Practices, Problems, Prospects”, BelTA ha...

In today's conditions it is of paramount importance to effectively fight all kinds of illegal acts, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich said at the 2nd edition of the international conference “Investigative Activi...

The event focused on organizational issues of the forthcoming exhibition events, such as the art and design exhibitions Triennale di Milano in 2022, and garden exhibitions Floriade Expo 2022 Amsterdam-Almere and Horticultural Exhibition EXPO 2023 Doh...

“The history of the Olympic movement of our country is an example of high professionalism and creative work to develop mass and elite sports, to maintain and preserve the Olympic ideals and values," the message of greetings runs.

The parties discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation to promote gender equality, rights and opportunities for women.

Head of Belarusian Railways Vladimir Morozov met with Oleg Belozerov, Director General and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways, in Moscow to discuss promising transport and logistics mechanisms for the delivery of Belarusian and Russian cargoes...

The permanent representative reaffirmed Belarus' readiness to cooperate constructively with the UN, UNCTAD and all interested governments to address pressing global food security issues, including those related to the transit of Ukrainian grain to wo...

“MART is trying its best to control prices,” said Vladimir Tsvirkov. Measures are also taken to saturate the domestic market. In particular, export licensing has been introduced this year to prevent the uncontrolled export of onions, cabbage and ...

Technical coverage is defined as a set of engineering, technical, and organizational measures taken in times of peace and war in order to prepare railway facilities and structures, dedicated recovery and operation forces for repairs and restoration a...

In addition to the outstanding monuments everybody knows and memorial complexes, which remind visitors about the war-torn past, Belarus has thousands of small graves like this and monuments, which should not be forgotten either.

The newly registered resident is the manufacturing and trade limited liability company Agrostroi. The company intends to implement an investment project in the territory of the free economic zone in order to make drilling and boring tools for the min...

A number of monuments at graves of Soviet soldiers in some Lithuanian cities have been demolished. Apart from that, elements of racial discrimination and intolerance with regard to people with non-European nationality and culture are promoted in Lith...

“I would like to see the UN Human Rights Council find the capacity and administrative resources to restore the original essence of human rights, and to have illegal unilateral coercive measures be eliminated from the bilateral practice of interacti...

There are numerous facts confirming a systemic violation by Poland of its international obligations towards asylum seekers, Irina Velichko, the head of the Main Department of Multilateral Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic o...

“The Summer Paralympic Games will be another large-scale competition held under the auspices of the We are Together. Sports movement. The popularity of the Winter Games in Khanty-Mansiysk confirms their relevance, including for foreign teams,” Ru...

The representative of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed: “Just a few examples of such policies in respect to ordinary people are systemic discrimination in society, almost daily dispersals of peaceful protests by force, violations...

Irina Velichko said: “Practice demonstrates that with the passage of time human rights stopped relying on principles of indivisibility and lack of hierarchy. The collective West has learned how to profitably manipulate categories of human rights an...

The majority of them arrived from the territory of Poland.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus has compiled a report "The most outrageous cases of human rights violations in certain countries 2022", said Irina Velichko, the head of the Central Office of Multilateral Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreig...

The National Center for Marketing together with the Embassy of Belarus in Egypt and the Association of Egyptian Businessmen 40 a video conference on food trade with Egypt. The event drew together about forty Belarusian and Egyptian exporters and imp...

According to Aleksei Avdonin, the climate factor and the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in the virtual depletion of food in every country. “As of the beginning of 2022 the global food reserves were at their lowest since World War Two. These fac...

Speaking about the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Minsk, Mikhail Mishustin noted that the Eurasian Economic Union is proving its relevance amid the difficult international situation.

Chair of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalya Kochanova, members of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic, heads of regional, district and rural councils of deputies laid flowers at the Masyukovshchina memorial complex ...

n February 2021, Aleksei Talay Foundation launched the project “Children of Belarus to Veterans and Future Generations” together with the Education Ministry, the Culture Ministry, the Labor and Social Security Ministry, and the Museum of the Hist...

The SVR head took part in the panel discussion in the Brest Fortress via a teleconference with the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Gora.

The diplomatic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam were established on 24 January 1992. The two countries marked the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations in 2022.

As of 22 June as part of the first cutting farmers cut down grass on 47.7% of the targeted area in Vitebsk Oblast, 97.2% in Gomel Oblast, 84% in Grodno Oblast, 92.3% in Minsk Oblast, and 81.1% in Mogilev Oblast. Brest Oblast farmers have hit the firs...

Belarus is always open for friendly moves and peaceful settlement of issues, State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich told reporters at the First International Security Industry Exhibition “National Sec...

Stanislav Zas said: “In my opinion, it is a very fitting format – a comprehensive expo dedicated to security. It is particularly topical for small countries like Belarus. It is difficult to do that on the scale of Russia. I am convinced this init...

The roundtable in the Museum of Defense of the Brest Fortress marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and the launch of the book “1941-1945. Belarus - Russia. Partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War”.

Maria Zakharova said that on this day 30 years ago a protocol was signed in Minsk, which sealed the intention of the two independent states to follow the way of strengthening political, trade, economic and cultural ties based on common history, spiri...

It is an annual exercise. Last year's took place in Mogilev Oblast. The purpose of such exercises is to check the readiness of the military registration and enlistment offices to perform their functions.

Belarusian Ambassador to Hungary with concurrent accreditation to Bosnia and Herzegovina Vladimir Ulakhovich and Honorary Consul of Belarus to Bosnia and Herzegovina Nedeljko Elek have met with Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosn...

A commemorative rally and a flower-laying ceremony took place at the military grave in Vitebsk on the National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People.

On 22 June, Belarus commemorates the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War. On this day 81 years ago the country faced the horrors of World War II. Belarus lost more than 3 million of its residents, or every third.

The world community should join efforts to maintain international security, First Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Maksim Ryzhenko said at the opening ceremony of the First International Security Industry Exhibition “National Sec...

Within the past six months, the share of transactions with goods that are not included in the list of mandatory products for sale on exchange trading sessions under Decree No.714 of the Council of Ministers has reached 52%.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Minsk on 30 June, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said at a briefing for the press in Moscow on 22 June.

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“I strongly believe that this event will help create an effective platform to discuss national security, mechanisms and terms of industrial, scientific and technological development, international cooperation and interaction,” Aleksandr Volfovich...

The area of the land plot under development exceeds 20 hectares. The reserves are estimated at 1,626,570 cubic meters.

The parties discussed cooperation prospects in the petrochemical industry, namely oil exploration and production, and the safety of oil pipelines.

To implement the president's instruction, the Healthcare Ministry prepared a draft resolution to introduce a new additional bonus for all healthcare workers on 1 July 2022. This bonus will vary depending on the complexity and intensity of work.

The National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People is observed all over the country.

“On the National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People, we, Belarusians bow our heads before the sacred feat of the victors who liberated the world from Nazism and we raise our voice in ...

On 22 June Belarus marks the National Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People. On this day, the country remembers those who sacrificed their lives to defend the Motherland, those who were mu...

Many local residents traditionally spend the night of 22 June in the Brest Fortress. People come to pay tribute to the citadel defenders and all defenders of the Motherland.

The Russian-Belarusian project The Train of Memory was launched on 21 June in the Ceremonial Square in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex.

The photo exhibition “Destinies Folded in Triangle” is based on the joint internet project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.

According to Yevgeny Bureiko, Western sanctions have substantially reduced the geography of export of Russian metal products, this is why the redirection of export shipments to other markets is a burning issue. The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exch...

The message reads: “The flight on a Russian spacecraft Soyuz-MS is scheduled for autumn 2023.” The candidate will be selected out of 29 people shortlisted by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The twinning agreement was signed on 21 June. The cities will build ties on the principle of partnership and mutual trust. The agreement was signed by Baranovichi Mayor Yuri Gromakovsky and Head of Kuznetsk Administration Sergei Zlatogorsky.

Belarus and Iran intend to cooperate in ensuring food safety and developing biopesticides, the National Center for Marketing told BelTA commenting on Belarus' participation in the Iran Agrofood International Agriculture and Food Exhibition.

The next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will be held in Kyrgyzstan in August.

As of 21 June as part of the first cutting farmers cut down grass on 45.5% of the targeted area in Vitebsk Oblast, 93.1% in Gomel Oblast, 81.6% in Grodno Oblast, 90.1% in Minsk Oblast, and 78.6% in Mogilev Oblast. Brest Oblast farmers have hit the fi...

The head of state reaffirmed Minsk's interest in deepening political relations with Bogotá based on mutual understanding and respect. “I hope that your election as the head of state will give a new impetus to bilateral contacts, which will help ma...

Yuri Ambrazevich said: “We can incessantly argue about the term ‘multivectorness' and see obvious and hidden meanings and ideas in it. But the so-called collective West is not going away on its own, it is our neighbor. And today nobody knows in w...

The political elites of Western countries are dragging the expert community into a deceitful, destructive and radicalizing game for world domination, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Yuri Ambrazevich said.

According to Aleksandr Chervyakov, rising bilateral shipments of materials, components, and ready-made products for the sake of substituting lost imports from unfriendly countries will help keep the Belarusian economy and the Russian one stable in th...

The time has come for a global process involving all leading international players to reach clear agreements on the rules of a new world order that will provide security guarantees to all, Belarusian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri Ambrazevic...

“In fact, the main topic for the Belarusian-Russian expert community could be the analysis of the so-called pivot to the East. This is true not only about our countries, but many others as well. This pivot is in full swing already, its intensity is...

Today is the time when overarching, creative and unifying initiatives are important like never before, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Yuri Ambrazevich said as he addressed the Belarus-Russia expert meeting in Minsk on 21 June, BelTA ha...

The deputy minister said addressing the Belarusian and Russian experts that it was very important to focus on the development of common approaches to many issues on the international agenda amid the current situation.

The event was held as part of the international patriotic campaign "Candle of Memory", which is held annually to commemorate the anniversary of th beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The ceremony in the Ceremonial Square of the Brest Hero Fortress...

The EAEU member-states defined the main approaches to the implementation of export regulations for certain types of goods. An instruction was given to develop transport infrastructure in the East-West and North-South directions, including as part of ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “They ran away to foreign countries but now 95% of them want to come back. They already write it openly: ‘If only Aleksandr Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] could pardon us and open the border…' 95% would come back. I don't ...

"If conditions for life and work are good, people will come," the head of state answered a question about what measures need to be taken to keep young people in rural communities.

The head of state was asked whether the government will continue supporting the reconstruction of municipal roads amid Western sanctions and so on. Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “We will not simply support it. We have to step it up. We have no reasons...

New tenants of Minsk World received the keys to apartments in the houses Polka and Mazurka located in the World Dances quarter of the multifunctional entertainment, residential, business and sports complex. What are their impressions of what they saw...

The heads of government, members of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council laid wreaths at the Victory Monument in Minsk on 21 June.

“Belarus will become a different country, with a different agriculture over the five-year period, if we manage to make the most of this moment when food prices have risen [around the world],” the Belarusian leader said.