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Belarusian Belavia’s 2025 passenger numbers close to 2.1m
In 2025, Belavia carried 2,093,224 passengers, up 8.4% from 2024. Passenger traffic increased by 11.2%...

Lukashenko’s choice: How Belarusian condensed milk is made
Whether it is from Glubokoye or Rogachev, it has long been an unofficial brand of Belarus abroad. But do you know how it is made? In the new episode of BelTA’s YouTube project “After the Fact: Special Report”, we visited the enterprise in Glubokoye and will now take you through all the stages of producing sweetened condensed milk...

Belarus’ PM sets priority goals for MTZ
Aleksandr Turchin tasked the management of MTZ to create the production capacity for the serial manufacturing of the BELARUS 5425 tractor within the year 2026...

Minister: Belarus-China container train traffic surges tenfold
Belarus is creating all the necessary conditions for the development of container transport business. The country has become a reliable link in logistics routes to China...

Belarus’ National Center for Marketing pledges support for Maldives in joint projects
Director of the National Center for Marketing and Price Study Nikolai Borisevich had a conference call with representatives of the Maldivian side to discuss plans to deepen cooperation...

Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Hainan sends first coconut shipment to Belarus
This marks the first shipment of fresh coconuts from Hainan Island to Belarus, highlighting the expansion of agricultural trade between Hainan and countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative...

Minister: Belavia launches flights to Asia, plans more destinations in the future
The airline is currently developing more than a dozen new routes for the near future, including destinations in Jordan, Tunisia, and various Chinese cities...

Belarus’ gold and forex reserves up by $5.5bn over 2025, reaching new historic high
In December 2025 alone, the reserves grew by $526.2 million, or 3.8%...

Belarus’ ambassador speaks about gas agreements with Russia
At the end of 2025, a working meeting was held between Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Viktor Karankevich and Director General of Gazprom Transgaz Belarus Vladimir Mayorov with Chairman of the Management Committee of Gazprom Alexey Miller...

Lukashenko approves draft agreement on search service for industrial property in EAEU
The international agreement defines the procedure for establishing a service within the EAEU to search for information on industrial property, including trademarks, service marks, geographical indications, and appellations of origin...

Agro-industrial complex of the future: Belarus’ plans for 2026-2030
Financial support for the implementation of the state program in 2026-2030 will amount to Br119.039 billion...

Rogozhnik: Belarus has solved key problem on the Russian market
Characterizing the Belarus-Russia trade and economic cooperation in 2025, Ambassador Aleksandr Rogozhnik stated that exports to Russia grew by 2.3% in January-November, which he described as “an excellent indicator”...

Belarus, Russia shape long-term cooperation plans in aircraft manufacturing
According to him, negotiations were held in the Russian government at the end of 2025, which also discussed issues of cooperation in industrial production...

Baking in color: Minsk Oblast rolls out sprouted purple wheat bread in 2025
For the Soligorsk branch, we developed a recipe for ‘Khozhevsky Wholegrain’ bread, which contains 67% sprouted purple wheat. In Vileika, we launched a bread called ‘Dar Zemli’ (Gift of the Land), made with 15% sprouted grain of the same wheat...

Chebotar: Belarus has achieved historic GDP high of over $90bn in 2025
Exports are expected to reach a 10-year high of over $50 billion, with services exports hitting a record $11.2 billion for the first time. Meanwhile, household real incomes have grown by 23.4%...

Belarus sends first batch of medical ampoules to Cuba
This delivery is not just the fulfillment of a contract. It is a demonstration of strong trust in Belarusian technologies in pharmaceutical packaging and a strengthening of international partnership on which people’s health depends, the Belarusian Glass Company emphasized...

Brest enterprises produce $36m worth of import-substitution goods in 2025
For example, Brest enterprises mastered the production of fastening fittings and hardware, as well as components for gas stoves. One private company in the city developed technically complex equipment for the production of canned meat...

BNBC processes Belarusian wheat for the first time in 2025
BNBC plans to expand production further. The company is set to begin implementing a project to build plants to manufacture an expanded range of amino acids (currently, the company produces three types in four forms), as well as other products...

Lukashenko inspects milking robot developed by TV maker Horizont
The product is not yet ready for mass production, but the process is underway. The company took up this development on its own initiative...

Belarus launches new tool to facilitate international trade
The platform provides a single point of access to the complete chain of export processes, foreign market entry requirements, logistics and financial solutions, state support measures, and analytical resources...