As of 1 June 2022, a total of 114,168 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, including 82,500 deposit accounts at the total amount of $825 million and 31,700 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br739 million, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. As of 1 June 2022, 55,794 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 48,199 applied to use the money to improve housing...

The Belarusian city of Gomel and the Russian city of Kursk updated their twinning agreements and came to terms on mutual visits during the international communication and information technologies forum TIBO 2022, BelTA has learned. Chairman of the Gomel City Executive Committee Piotr Kirichenko and Kursk Mayor Igor Kutsak signed an agreement on twinning the two cities. The document will give another impulse to all-round cooperation between Belarus and Russia's Kursk Oblast. Piotr...

Enterprises run by the Belarusian Industry Ministry intend to make $4.5 billion worth of import substitutes in 2022. First Deputy Industry Minister Aleksandr Ogorodnikov made the statement at a conference held in Gomel on 2 June to discuss new manufacturing cooperation and import substitution opportunities for the private sector, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Ogorodnikov stressed that the situation on the market and in business has changed radically. Alternative suppliers of goods are in...

A forum on trade in metal products will bring together over 150 representatives of the manufacturing sector and the trade industry of Russia and Belarus in the Belarusian city of Zhlobin, the press service of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) told BelTA. The Belarusian-Russian business forum on production and consumption of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in the Republic of Belarus will take place at premises of the Belarusian steel mill BMZ. The forum is...

Support for business initiatives allows creating new jobs, raising earnings of the population, and securing higher living standards in the regions. Deputy Director of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Belarusian Economy Ministry Irina Babachenok mentioned it during a business trip to Zhlobin District, Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learned. According to Irina Babachenok, 140 initiatives have been selected and are being implemented in 12 pilot districts as part of a joint project...

Serious financial and organizational investments in the development of Gomel Oblast, Mogilev Oblast, and Vitebsk Oblast seem necessary. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement as he authorized the appointment of new heads of district administrations and deputy heads of oblast administrations on 13 May, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “Gomel Oblast, Mogilev Oblast, and Vitebsk Oblast are the three oblasts we should seriously invest in. Not only...

More than half of the areas designated for spring sowing have been planted in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 5 May, early spring crops (excluding corn, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 639,900 hectares – 99.3% of the designated area. Planting was done on 68.2% of the area in Mogilev Oblast. Planting in Brest Oblast, Vitebsk Oblast, Minsk Oblast, Grodno Oblast and Gomel Oblast was completed. All in all, spring planting...

Six Belarusian districts are planning to twin with Lipetsk Oblast of Russia in 2022, Vice Governor of Russia's Lipetsk Oblast Sergei Kurbatov told BelTA. Sergei Kurbatov noted that the current visit is aimed at expanding the horizon of cooperation between Russia and Belarus as much as possible. "This is the need of the hour and in our mutual interest. Our task is to find new areas for partnership in terms of import substitution and manufacture of new products. Economic cooperation aside,...

Chernobyl’s experience is used as the foundation for ensuring the country’s nuclear safety. Zoya Trafimchik, Deputy Head of the Radiation Monitoring Service, Head of the Radiation Monitoring Department at the state institution National Center for Hydrometeorology, Radioactive Contamination Control, and Environmental Monitoring (Belhydromet) of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, made the statement at a meeting of BelTA’s Expert Community project...

Belarusian agricultural workers have planted early spring cereals and leguminous crops (excluding corn, buckwheat and millet) on 54.8% of the planned area, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 14 April, early spring crops were planted on the area of 353,000 hectares. Planting was done on 85.6% of the designated area in Grodno Oblast, 54.5% of the area in Minsk Oblast, 12.9% of the area in Mogilev Oblast, 7.85% of the area in Vitebsk Oblast, 94.2% of the area in...