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Governor: Belarusian products enjoy great demand in Russia's Far East
Belarus and Russia’s Primorsky Krai are also implementing interesting projects in agriculture. The parties have signed agreements on seed production, potato planting and fruit and vegetable farming...

Lukashenko invited to visit Russia’s Vladivostok
"We are planning to open a Belarusian trading house in Vladivostok in September"...

Belarus launches mass production of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine
According to Belmedpreparaty Director General Sergei Belyayev, the vaccine can be used to vaccinate the general public starting from late April, after quality control findings are received...

Belarusian vehicles, diesel generators get kudos from Russian governor
According to Oleg Kozhemyako, the region is looking to buy 400 units of Belarusian utility vehicles in 2021-2022...

Belarus’ innovative fund to allocate over Br35m for research projects in 2021
The document defines the recipients and the amount of funds to be used to finance R&D and experimental engineering projects...

Number of electric vehicles expected to rise in Belarus
According to multiple experts, most of the public transport vehicles in Belarusian cities and towns will be electric in 2025-2030. Electric cars and other kinds of electric vehicles in urban areas will be able to consume about 2.3 billion kWh of electricity or up to 12.5% of the Belarusian nuclear power plant's output...

BelVEB Bank opens office in China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone
"The office will employ Chinese-speaking specialists, including native speakers, who will become the one-stop shop for providing all BelVEB Bank’s financial services primarily to residents of the industrial park"...

BUCE considering specialized trade options for UK market
"We are interested in supplying sawn timber and other Belarus-made products to the UK. If we need to come up with specialized trade options for it similarly to those we offer to the Chinese market, we are ready to do it. Moreover, the scheme has already proved its effectiveness"...

Vice premier outlines goals for Belarusian meat industry
"Russia is our main export market, but we are working to increase our presence in the Chinese market and are eyeing the markets of the Arab states and African countries. It is difficult to enter the European market, because European countries fiercely protect it, but we are trying to earn a good reputation on it as well"...

Belarus set to hit $1b in meat export in 2021
Russia accounts for 60% of Belarus’ meat export. "We supply the biggest assortment of products there, including sausages, canned food"...

Belarus aims for tighter cooperation with Bangladesh
A delegation of representatives of Belarusian industrial enterprises have been to Bangladesh on a visit. The delegation included representatives of Amkodor, MAZ, Belkommunmash, and Promagroleasing...

Lukashenko sees great prospects for leather industry
As for calls from ecologists and animal right advocates, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that people will not stop eating meat, which means that there will be raw materials for processing...

Belarusian nuclear power plant’s second reactor assembled for cold, hot trials
The assembly process included the installation of in-vessel components, the loading of dummy fuel rod arrays, the installation of the protective tube unit and the reactor head...

Belarus, Japan in talks over opening Belarusian trading center in Japan’s Ome
"This economic project is aimed at creating a platform that would tell Japanese business about Belarusian exporters and their offers"...

Belarus’ Central Securities Depositary, Eurasian Development Bank sign depository agreement
The depository agreement will contribute to the development of the Belarusian stock market. It is also important from the point of view of the formation of the common financial market in the Eurasian Economic Union, representatives of the depositary said...

Lukashenko against privatization of Gatovo-based tannery
"We cannot give all the raw materials to one person however good they may be. You understand what may happen if we do"...

Belarusian commodity exchange accredits its first broker in Israel
According to Boris Gelfand, one of the founders of Global Edge Sourcing Ltd, the company plans to organize direct deliveries of Belarusian timber to the Israeli market where there is an increased demand for these products today...

Lukashenko wants Belarus’ leather industry to use domestic raw materials
Belarusian leather industry should use domestic raw materials...

Tentative plans to drop roaming charges between Belarus, Russia by 2 April
The relevant statement was made at the commission’s session in Moscow on 22 March...

Belarusian BelAZ ready for tighter manufacturing cooperation in Eurasian Economic Union
The Eurasian Economic Union accounted for 45.2% of BelAZ’s total trade turnover in 2020 and for 71.8% in January-February 2021. BelAZ vehicles are used virtually in all the branches of the production sector of the Eurasian Economic Union where solid mineral resources are mined such as coal industry, ore mining, mining-and-chemical industry, rock and aggregates industry, precious metals and stones industry...