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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...

Minsk to host Ecology Expo, forum on 3-5 June
The exhibition and the forum are seen as a unique platform for shaping the country’s development with the help of the “government-business-society” system...

Belarusian commodity exchange reveals top exporters in Q1 2021
In Q1 2021, the top three exporters on BUCE included the Bellesexport company affiliated with the Belarusian Forestry Ministry, Belarusian Cement Company, and Vitebsk Sawmill...

Lukashenko wants smooth economic cooperation with Ukraine
"The trade with Ukraine is estimated at nearly $5 billion. You know that we have never, even in this situation, done any harm to Ukraine. We gave everything Ukraine asked for, including electricity when there was a problem with it. It was my personal order to give as much electricity as Ukraine needed"...

Center for technologies, innovations set up in Vitebsk State Medical University
The establishment of centers designed to support technologies and innovations in Belarus is supposed to help involve young Belarusians into the innovation process and improve the system of intellectual property protection and commercialization...

Belarus to debut at Arabian Travel Market in Dubai
Belarus’ national exposition will showcase the country’s travel opportunities, the richness and diversity of its natural resources, and its historical and cultural heritage. The exposition is seen as an effective means to present the capacities of Belarusian health resorts...

Belarusian nuclear power plant’s second unit’s nuclear fuel delivered
The fuel rod arrays will be stored in the fresh nuclear fuel storage facility until they need to be loaded into the reactor of the second unit...

Mozyr Oil Refinery plans to increase oil processing volumes in April
Every day the plant ramps up production of bitumen. This product is shipped by road and rail around the clock...

Minsk to host Leisure 2021 expo on 23-25 April
“We are working together with Belarusian regions to help them market their identities. In 2021, we have developed new routes, trademarks, and activities in various avenues of tourism. Travel agents and tour operators, especially those that want to gear to the domestic market, will have a great opportunity to communicate with representatives of Belarusian regions at the expo,” noted Irina Voronovich...

Belarus expects to get second $500m tranche of Russian loan by June-end
"We made arrangements for the first half of the year, the second quarter. Let's hope that it will arrive by the end of June," Yuri Seliverstov said...

Over 220,000t of Belarusian freight shipped via Russian sea infrastructure already
"Our cooperation in transshipping Belarusian freight via Russian sea ports can serve as an example of how difficult problems of bilateral interaction should be resolved"...