MINSK, 10 June (BelTA) – The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus has launched a new information resource Elections 2016 (vybory2016.by) in the run-up to the parliamentary election in Belarus, BelTA has learned. The Internet resource is intended to provide the latest news on the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the sixth convocation. The CEC-run site will publish news, materials and documents on the election campaign. Website...

An exhibition “Icon Painting in Belarus in the 17th-21st centuries” will open in a museum of the Vatican on 18 May, head of the Ancient Belarusian Art Department at Belarus’ National Art Museum Yelena Karpenko told BelTA. In her words, the exhibition will feature 33 icons that will familiarize Italian specialists and numerous tourists from around the world with unique works of the Belarusian sacral culture. The Belarusian icons will go on show in a museum of the Vatican for the...

Belarusian and Lithuanian cultural workers will share the best practices. The possibility is stipulated by the program on cooperation in cultural affairs between the Belarusian Culture Ministry and the Lithuanian Culture Ministry in 2016-2017. The document was signed by Belarusian Culture Minister Boris Svetlov and Lithuanian Culture Minister Sarunas Birutis in Vilnius on 29 April, BelTA has learned. According to Boris Svetlov, Belarusians are interested in the experience of restoration of...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian virtual museum on the Chernobyl disaster will open on 26 April to mark the 30th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Office of the Russian-Belarusian Information Center on the Impact of the Accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant under the Institute of Radiation. The goal of the project dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the accident is to preserve the memory about the...

MINSK, 22 April (BelTA) - Belarus is considering the establishment of an institution of a national coordinator that would help organize and record progress made on the Sustainable Development Goals, Belarus Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei said when speaking at the high-level debate of the UN General Assembly on achieving sustainable development goals, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That would allow the country to conduct...

MINSK, 1 April (BelTA) – The National Tourism Agency of Belarus and the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism) are expected to sign an agreement on cooperation. The matter is on the agenda of the visit of the Rostourism delegation to Belarus, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Sport and Tourism Ministry. The visit is scheduled for 5-6 April. The delegation that is to be led by Rostourism head Oleg Safonov will comprise representatives of travel business and...

MINSK, 14 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrei Dapkiunas met with President of the General Assembly of the United Nations Mogens Lykketoft at the UN headquarters on 11 March 2016 to discuss the progress in the preparation of a number of upcoming General Assembly events, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Minsitry of Foreign Affairs.

Belarus and the Council of Europe are mapping out ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA after a meeting between Permanent Representative of Belarus to the European Union, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Belgium Andrei Yevdochenko and Italian MP and PACE rapporteur on Belarus Andrea Rigoni that took place on 2 March.

Over 20 new technical regulations are in development in the Customs Union, BelTA learned from Chairman of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus Viktor Nazarenko during the Committee's session on 19 February.

Fifth-year students of the Energy Department of the Belarusian National Technical University are going through undergraduate training at the Smolensk nuclear power plant, BelTA learned from the Information and Public Relations Department of the Smolensk nuclear power plant.