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Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast to double purchase of Belarusian harvesters from 2024
According to Andrei Travnikov, the Belarusian company Mogilevliftmash supplied 37 elevators to Novosibirsk Oblast last year, plus 30 elevators in the first half of 2023. “There are plans to purchase at least 22 more elevators by the end of the year,” the governor added...

Belarus, Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast closely cooperate in machine building industry
First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Belcoopsoyuz Aleksandr Skrundevsky spoke about Belarus’ cooperation with Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast in machine building during the 6th session of the Business Cooperation Council of Belarus and Novosibirsk Oblast of the Russian Federation...

Minister: BelNPP will generate nearly a quarter of all electricity in Belarus in 2023
During his speech at the forum, Viktor Karankevich noted that with the commissioning of the second unit, the nuclear power plant will annually generate about 18.5 billion kWh, which will meet more than 40% of domestic electricity needs...

PM: Belarus will step up cooperation in mechanical engineering with Russia’s Bashkortostan
Roman Golovchenko also said that now, together with the Bashkortostan enterprise, work is underway in a new avenue of cooperation in mechanical engineering, namely caterpillar tractors...

Belarus stays committed to global trends of low-carbon economy
In his words, the country’s energy complex has a priority task of meeting the needs of the real sector of the economy and the population in energy resources given their maximum efficient use while reducing the burden on the environment...

Belarus among top 5 partners of Russia’s Bashkortostan
One of the important criteria for the growth of trade is, of course, the number of business visits to both Bashkortostan and Belarus. Another visit led by Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko took place today, and it was timed to mark the opening of the Amkodor plant. Today we have also launched construction of a new plant on the territory of the Ufimsky Industrial Park,” Margarita Balycheva said...

Belarus’ grain harvest reaches 8.3m tonnes
As of 11 October, some 8,350,200 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were cropped in Belarus. This included 7,309,400 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn...

Belarusian BMZ mulls over supplies of steel products to Nigeria
The Belarusian company hosted technical and economic negotiations with partners from Nigeria on 10 October. The parties showed mutual interest in cooperation. The also reached agreements on the supplies of steel products of BMZ and BMC Holding...

Mayors of Minsk, Russia’s Novosibirsk discuss cooperation areas
In January-August 2023 the trade between Minsk and Novosibirsk Oblast amounted to $84 million (up 16.6%). Belarus’ main exports are tractors, electric transformers, computing machines and their units, refrigerators, freezers, agricultural equipment, and washing machines...

Belarus to open multi-brand center in Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast
"We have adopted such a program. In certain regions of Russia we will open multi-brand sites where we will offer customers almost the entire line-up of products manufactured in Belarus. Not just tractors, but also grain and forage harvesters, utility vehicles, passenger transport," the deputy prime minister said...

Belarus, Russia working out cooperation program on airport equipment
Another important area is agriculture. “We have established friendly contacts and need to continue our cooperation. We are ready to offer works related to dairy farms, we can do them on a turnkey basis, supply equipment,” Piotr Parkhomchik stressed...

Lukashenko: Belarus intends to structure its capabilities in Russia, to set up trade centers
"Today there is a great demand for Belarusian-made goods, but we are not a very big country. Therefore, we need to clearly understand where to set up the centers through which we will work with the Russian Federation," Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

Call on Belarus, Russia to jointly advance to faraway markets
Aleksandr Lukashenko added that Russia was doing quite well in those countries. According to the head of state, Belarus could develop products jointly with Russian regions and supply them to the faraway countries or help Russian regions in supplies there...

Belarus, Iran approve plan for further action in promising areas of cooperation
The document spells out the measures to promote cooperation in the manufacturing sector, agriculture and veterinary, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, transport and cooperation through chambers of commerce and industry...

Nearly 865,000t of corn kernels threshed in Belarus
As of 10 October, some 8,287,100 tonnes of grain crops and rapeseed were cropped in Belarus. This included 7,246,200 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops as well as corn...

Golovchenko off to Russia on working visit
The government delegation led by the prime minister will visit two regions - Bashkortostan and Chelyabinsk Oblast...

Priority areas of cooperation between Russia's Novosibirsk Oblast, Belarus outlined
In addition, this Russian region is interested in the exchange of competencies in the field of biotechnology (bioadditives, premixes, plant bioprotection products)...

Serbia, Belarus discuss cooperation in trade
Minister of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade, co-chairman of the Belarusian-Serbian intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation Aleksei Bogdanov met with the director of a large Serbian company at the Belarusian ministry...

Belarus in top 15 on UPU Integrated Index for Postal Development
"The Universal Postal Union unites 192 countries. Membership in the UPU enables our country to exchange international mail between all member countries using common technologies. It also ensures the freedom of transit of postal items through the territory of other countries," Svetlana Shimanskaya said...

Belarus, Uzbekistan implement joint projects in pharmaceutics, light industry
The countries have been actively developing trade. “Belarusian dairy products are in demand in Uzbekistan’s retail chains. There is also demand for Belarusian bread. Bread kvass is sold out very quickly. The Uzbek market is open for us,” the ambassador said...