An open boxing tournament marking the Victory Day will kick off in Gomel on 3 May, BelTA learned from the organizers. Some 70 boxers from various cities of Belarus and Russia will compete for medals in the Lokomotiv cultural and sports center. Two days of preliminary fights will follow with semifinals on 5 May. The final bouts, the awards and closing ceremony will take place on 6 May. According to chief judge Aleksandr Kaleyev, the tournament makes part of the European Boxing...

 

Gomel Oblast needs new drivers of economic growth, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a conference with Gomel Oblast officials, BelTA has learned. "In the first decade after the Chernobyl accident we literally fought for survival. In recent years our focus has been on development: returning agricultural land into economic use, construction of dairy and pig farms, setting up efficient industrial enterprises. You cannot complain about the lack of attention. There is not a...

 

 

Seven import-substituting projects are being implemented by enterprises of the Belarusian state food industry concern Belgospishcheprom. Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Zayats mentioned it after OAO Spartak opened a new chocolate bar line on 20 April, BelTA has learned. Leonid Zayats said that the new line commissioned by the Gomel-based company is an import-substituting one. He mentioned that Belgospishcheprom is busy implementing seven import-substituting projects like that. The...

 

As of 1 April 2023 a total of 125,056 large families have opened the deposit accounts in Belarus under the family capital program, including about 82,600 deposit accounts at the total amount of $826 million and 42,500 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br1.02 billion, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. A total of 69,347 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 57,877 applied to use the money to improve...

 

MINSK, 4 April (BelTA) – In 2022 Belarus increased its food export to Kaluga Oblast by almost a quarter, BelTA informs citing the Telegram channel of the Agriculture and Food Ministry. “In 2022 the trade in foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials between Belarus and Kaluga Oblast expanded by 17.2% over 2021. The export of Belarusian products rose by 23.9%, the import increased by 15.3%,” the post reads. The main exports are dairy and meat products, trees and other plants, fish...