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Belarusian MAZ to continue vehicle deliveries to Ukraine in full after 1 May
The Ukrainian market is a strategic one for MAZ. So far MAZ has made and sold about 1,500 passenger vehicles to all the regions of Ukraine...

China-Belarus industrial park interested in cooperation with Cuban companies in pharmaceutics
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cuba to Belarus Juan Valdes Figueroa and representatives of the diplomatic mission visited the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone on 26 April...

Pre-clinical animal trials of Belarusian vaccine to begin soon
According to Anatoly Krasko, now work is underway on making a prototype version of the vaccine and on developing the technology to produce it...

Belarus bans import of certain goods as retaliation to unfriendly moves
The list of prohibited goods includes the goods made by groups of companies: LIQUI MOLY, ŠKODA AUTO and BEIERSDORF (trademarks NIVEA, EUCERIN, LA PRAIRIE, LABELLO, HANSAPLAST, FLORENA, 8X4, SKIN STORIES, GAMMON, TESA, CHAUL, COPPERTONE, HIDROFUGAL, STOP THE WATER WHILE USING ME)...

Eurasian Economic Commission launches register of industrial goods
"The commission has launched its own information resource to compile the Eurasian Register of Industrial Goods of the Eurasian Economic Union," Iya Malkina said...

Batch of 55-tonne BelAZ trucks nearly assembled in Russian Norilsk
It is a unique batch of 55-tonne trucks made to specifications of local engineers. They are designed to operate in air temperatures of up to 50 degrees below zero, in strong winds, and snowdrifts. The vehicles boast high performance parameters and good fuel and lubricant economy...

Kochanova: Belarusian companies are capable of making competitive products
Natalya Kochanova was shown the company’s production facilities, where a honey bottling line was commissioned in 2020. There are plans to process up to 300 tonnes of honey of various types...

Belarusian commodity exchange predicts further growth in export prices for rapeseed oil
Since the beginning of the year, prices for unrefined rapeseed oil exported via the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange have increased by an average of 28%. Thus Belarusian exporters earned more than €220,000 in additional revenue. According to stock analysts, the price growth trend will continue in the second quarter of this year...

Belarusian BelAZ ships new bulldozer, haul trucks to Ukrainian mining company
Central GOK Director Dmitry Shevchik said: "Modern mining vehicles always help with production. They increase effectiveness and performance, particularly when driven by our professionals. Besides, the new models are convenient to use and comfortable for our drivers"...

Belarus, Russia discuss cooperation in macroeconomic forecasting
The experts of the Economy Ministry and Russian colleagues discussed organizational aspects of the process to develop macroeconomic forecasts in Russia and Belarus, the used tools, approaches to work with development scenarios. They also got familiar with the mechanism of data exchange between the subjects of the Russian Federation...

BelAZ classrooms open in Russia’s National University of Science and Technology
The new classrooms boast modern equipment and the necessary illustrative materials. The “Hydraulics. Hydromechanics” classroom enables students of the university to study haul truck hydraulics using devices that allow entering any parameters of BelAZ haul truck operation...

Belarus set to develop its own COVID-19 prototype vaccine by September
"In addition to that, we are also developing medicines that will alleviate symptoms of the coronavirus disease and medicines designed to neutralize the infection"...

Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Ministry focuses on promoting Belarusian goods, tighter oversight
According to the source, a videoconference session of the interagency working group in charge of working out and adopting measures to protect the home market took place on 20 April...

Technical universities of Belarus, Tashkent to organize joint student teams
The Belarusian delegation held talks with the leadership of Tashkent State Technical University on the harmonization of joint educational programs, the organization of joint student teams and coordination of the enrollment of students studying in joint educational programs...

Belarus’ vice premier to take part in EEC Council session
The agenda of the session will include 35 matters concerning international activities, technical regulation, customs and tariff regulation. Plans are in plans to approve the draft decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on the main guidelines of the macroeconomic policy of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states for 2021-2022...

State support for agriculture expected to stay as large after Belarus joins WTO
Mikhail Zelenovsky, an attache of the WTO and Trade Regimes Unification Office of the Foreign Economic Activities Department of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the statement during a regional roundtable session with the business community...

Belaruskali starts main stage of cage shaft sinking at Darasinsky mine
Contractors started drilling the shaft and lining it with concrete masonry in line with the approved schedule...

Opinion: WTO membership is the interests of Belarusian export-oriented economy
According to Yuri Gorelik, director of the department of foreign economic activities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, by joining the WTO the country will adapt its legislation to the best world practices and remove regulatory barriers...

Radiation monitoring system successfully operates in Belarus
The network for monitoring radiation levels in atmospheric air was greatly expanded and the monitoring of radiation levels in soils and surface waters began in the first decade after the Chernobyl catastrophe...

Belarus to cooperate with Russia’s Samara Oblast in IT, automaking, agribusiness
The Belarusian delegation visited Samara’s tram and trolleybus operating company where sales of Belarusian electric buses, new models of trams and trolleybuses were discussed...