A videoconference session of Belarusian parts of the working groups in charge of advancing cooperation of Belarus with Russia’s Amur Oblast and Sakhalin Oblast took place at premises of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, BelTA has learned. Amur Oblast and Sakhalin Oblast are important partners of Belarus in Russia’s Far East. Cooperation with these regions advances despite the large geographical distance from Belarus. Sessions of the joint working groups with the leadership...

Yuri Ambrazevich, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, and Hua Liu, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation, signed the Belarus Country Program Framework (CPF) for the period of 2022–2027 in Vienna, BelTA learned from the Permanent Mission of Belarus to international organizations in Vienna. The deputy minister thanked the IAEA for the support in strengthening the nuclear and radiation safety regime, including...

Schools will be licensed throughout Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich in Minsk on 20 September, BelTA has learned. The head of state talked about an incident that is being spinned on the internet. A pupil of one of private schools fired a gun at a girl and injured her eye. "It was not a traumatic gun, as they are claiming. It was a toy gun with rubber balls. The boy hit the girl in...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko presented state awards on 13 September in the run-up to Day of People's Unity marked in Belarus on 17 September, BelTA has learned. “We honor the Belarusians, who have reached, thanks to their talent and diligence, great success in manufacturing and creative activities, in serving their country and their people. In the Year of Historical Memory I believe it important to emphasize that 17 September has made its return to our national holiday...

The Belarusian national youth union BRSM should become a pillar and the center of the country's entire youth policy, BelTA learned from Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko. Igor Sergeyenko said: “The Belarusian national youth union BRSM is celebrating 20 years these days. 20 years is not so much at all. One can say it is a young age. Today the BRSM is a living organism. It is 350,000 best young people from various parts of the country, the most patriotic...

The analytical center EcooM carried out a sociological research titled as Social Thinking Amid Sanctions on 22 July – 12 August 2022. As many as 1,560 people from all parts of Belarus were polled. EcooM's head Sergei Musiyenko quoted the poll's figures for BelTA. When asked “How much do you trust the president?”, 76.3% of those polled said they do on the whole. 13.6% responded negatively and 10.1% could not give an answer. In December 2021 EcooM carried out a large sociological...

Belarus' harvest has reached 7 million tonnes of grain, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. “Early on 23 August the Belarusian agricultural workers reached the harvest of 7 million tonnes of grain,” the ministry said. According to the data of the Agriculture and Food Ministry, the harvesting of grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) has been completed in Brest Oblast. Harvesting was done on 74.5% (264,700 hectares) in Vitebsk Oblast,...

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed decree No.275 on granting Belarusian citizenship to 401 people, including 86 underage ones, the president's press service told BelTA. As many as 341 Ukrainians will receive Belarusian passports. Those are primarily individuals who came to Belarus from Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast and Lugansk Oblast. The number includes 39 families. Belarusian citizenship was also granted to 60 foreigners, who had come from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,...

Belarus has decided in favor of creating port facilities in Russia's northwest. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the statement after the conference hosted by the head of state to discuss the creation of port facilities for exporting Belarusian products, BelTA has learned. Roman Golovchenko said: “We understand it is necessary to transship large volumes. It is true for all kinds of cargoes including mineral fertilizers, timber, wheeled cargoes, and containers. This is...

MINSK, 3 August (BelTA) – Belarus has harvested 2 million tonnes of grain so far, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. “As of early 3 August the grain harvest in the country reached 1,944,000 tonnes. The figure will be considerably higher by the end of the day,” the press service said. Grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) have been cropped from 24.4% of the targeted area. Harvesting was completed on...