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Belarus’ Mogilev Oblast, China’s Henan Province sign roadmap on cooperation
According to Mogilev Oblast Vice Governor Ruslan Strakhar, the region cooperates with five Chinese provinces today...

Lukashenko wants more charging stations built in Belarus
Belarus has been developing electric transport and appropriate infrastructure for a while, the president pointed out. According to him, this area holds great promise. “Nowadays, the entire world is switching to electric cars. People are fed up with breathing polluted air, they want our planet to be clean. Otherwise we will be doomed,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

Belarus’ Gomel Oblast, Russia’s Omsk Oblast seek closer cooperation in agriculture
The minister said that Omsk Oblast is an agricultural region, which pays much attention to dairy farming. The task is to carry out modernization, using the equipment of the Belarusian production. “We would like to apply the achievements you have in our region,” he added...

Gomel enterprises, Tajik enterprises eager to team up to make agricultural equipment
While in Gomel Oblast Tajikistan’s representatives were made familiar with the operation of local enterprises, took a close look at their products, and looked into prospects of setting up joint ventures...

MTZ, Gomselmash, St Petersburg tractor factory to sign cooperation memorandum
The draft memorandum provides for the joint development of innovative projects, information sharing, and other measures meant to step up manufacturing cooperation. The document will be signed on the sidelines of the international agricultural expo Belagro 2021 on 3 June...

Belarus raises export duties on oil, oil products
In line with the document the size of the export duty on crude oil, furnace oil, oil bitumen, petrolatum, paraffin, and waste oils now is $58.8 per tonne ($54.9 previously)...

Belarus gets $500m as second tranche of Russian loan
BelTA reported earlier that the agreement on Russia lending $1 billion to Belarus was signed on 21 December 2020. The Finance Ministry received the first $500 million tranche on 30 December...

Belarus shares experience in agro-town construction with Azerbaijan
Belarus’ major exporters to Azerbaijan are such companies as the Belovezhskiye Syry cheese maker, Luninets Dairy Plant, the Molochny Mir dairy, Rogachev Milk Canning Factory, Kalinkovichi Dairy Plant, Lida Milk Canning Factory, and Minsk Dairy Plant No.1...

Belavia to open new flight routes, update flight itineraries
At present, Belavia can fly to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and the UAE. The air carrier has suspended flights to Lithuania, the United Kingdom, France, Ukraine, Latvia, Finland, Czechia, Switzerland, Estonia, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Cyprus, and Russia’s Kaliningrad...

Egyptian business views exchange trade with Belarus as promising
Top managers of Egyptian companies representing various businesses, from agriculture and light industry to construction and energy sector, came to Belarus to study the theory and practice of exchange trading and to discuss possible areas of cooperation...

Belarus-Pakistan relations hailed as sincere, trust-based
The bilateral cooperation is based on an extensive legal framework. “There are about 80 interstate, intergovernmental, interdepartmental documents. Commissions for trade, economic, R&D cooperation have been set up. In other words, we have everything in place to intensify our cooperation"...

MAZ presents dump trucks, milk tanker, mobile office at Belagro expo
“Today we are presenting a line of dump trucks designed for agricultural producers. The carrying capacity of these machines ranges from 6 to 20 tonnes. These dump trucks have a yellow cabin and a dark graphite platform. Yellow is the color of a ripe crop,” Vladimir Yanushko said...

Belarus, Azerbaijan to expand assortment of agricultural supplies
The parties discussed trade and economic relations, in particular, ways to boost bilateral trade, expand the assortment of agricultural supplies, as well as cooperation prospects in the field of animal identification, veterinary control, crop production, livestock breeding, agricultural education and scientific potential...

Belarusian Gomselmash eager to sell agricultural machines to African countries
According to the source, Gomselmash hits all the output and export targets. Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine account for most of the sales. The company also cooperates with Zimbabwe, with 20 machines sold there so far this year. Zimbabwe is Gomselmash’s main partner in Africa...

Orsha Linen Mill, Tirotex discuss cooperation
The parties focused on expanding the range of products. They discussed the main goals and the first steps to study the technological capacities of Tirotex...

Belarusian PM unconcerned about Western sanctions
"We calmly track the situation. We are ready for various sequences of events and are confident that the Belarusian economy will not just survive and overcome them but it will get a new impulse in order to more actively work on other markets"...

PM: Belarus, Russia building new model of relations in common economic space
"We seek to create some new models of the economy to make sure they develop in a fairly synchronous way. Since we are in the Union State, we are closely intertwined. So the economic models and the concepts of economic development should be similar"...

Belarusian MMZ showcases products at bauma СТТ Russia 2021 in Moscow
The expo took place in the exhibition center Crocus Expo. As many as 340 manufacturers and dealers from 16 countries, including Belarus, Russia, Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Finland, and Singapore, presented their products at the expo...

Belarusian government to provide all-round support to Belavia
Now Belarus and Russia are working on new flights for Belavia. It is expected that the airline will not only operate more flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg but will fly to other Russian cities, including sea resorts...

Belarus to get second $500m tranche of Russian loan in June
The agreement on Russia lending $1 billion to Belarus was signed in December 2020. Belarus received the first tranche of the loan the same month...