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New air service may connect Minsk, Kazan
"No applications have been filed yet from the air companies but official negotiations are underway with UVT Aero (Tatarstan, Russia)"...

Speakers of KEF economic forum in Minsk announced
The KEF 2017 conference is meant to search for solutions to help lay the groundwork for Belarus’ future and bridge the gap between politics and practice...

Minsk-Novosibirsk flight to be resumed in summer 2018
Dmitry Melikyan noted that this will be the S7/Belavia code-share flight. "The airport has provided preferential conditions to make this flight happen"...

Israel in top 8 tourism source markets for Belarus in H1 2017
Israeli citizens are interested in Belarus’ tourist attractions, recreation facilities, places of worship, monuments dating back to the Great Patriotic War, and also places related to more than six centuries of Belarusians and Jews living together, the ambassador emphasized...

New direct air service between Minsk, Russia’s Yekaterinburg
The airlines will operate three flights a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...

Russian journalists on press tour to Minsk Oblast
Among the participants of the press tour are members of the Union State publishing houses, news agencies, printed and electronic mass media from Moscow, St Petersburg, Kaliningrad Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast and other oblasts...

Plans to increase share of innovative products up to 25% in Belarus
"The high share of innovative products in the industrial output is key to the sustainable GDP growth, competitiveness of enterprises. At the moment, this share hovers around 16%. The science and technology development strategy up to 2040 is in the works now"...

Minsk Motor Plant signs three contracts with Pakistan
Q3 2017 was an especially successful period of cooperation. Thanks to the well-crafted foreign economic policy, the plant signed three big direct supply contracts with Pakistani companies...

Belarus’ exposition on display at FIHAV 2017 in Cuba
Taking part in the national exposition are more than 20 Belarusian organizations and enterprises: Minsk Tractor Works, Gomselmash, Belagromash, Amkodor, Belarusian Steel Works, BelAZ...

First Amkodor loader assembled in Egypt
Amkodor has shipped five vehicles to its dealer in Egypt. These are loaders with the carrying capacity of 3, 4, and 5 tonnes, the universal loader with skid steering Amkodor 211 and the diesel folk lifter with the carrying capacity of 5 tonnes Amkodor 451...

Israel interested in cooperation with Mogilev Oblast in IT, energy industry, tourism
According to Alon Shoham, upon getting familiar with Mogilev Oblast’s capabilities, he saw rather good prospects for advancing entrepreneurship and cooperation in information technologies. “There are quite many qualified specialists in the region, who could work in this area, implementing and advancing the development of the business projects already going on in Israel"...

Polish investor to build loading terminal at Bruzgi railway station
"Construction of the terminal will increase transit traffic through Belarus. We are talking about container trains from China to the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Silk Road project"...

Belarus-Germany solar-powered refrigerator under development
Such appliances are irreplaceable when there is no electricity or where there is a power outage. The concept is about refrigerating the compartment by converting solar energy to charge the fridge overnight...

Belarus’ top building contractor in negotiations on projects in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia
Reinforced concrete products and reinforcement units had to be certified in Vilnius, Lithuania so that the Belarusian company could ship them to the European Union member states...

Plans for German venture to make composite materials in China-Belarus industrial park
"New composite materials are virtually substitutes for metals. They are now actively used in mechanical engineering. We would love to join the race. The project is estimated at more than €200 million"...

Belarus, Kazakhstan plan to launch joint projects in IT, nanomaterials
Therefore we would like to ream up with Belarusian colleagues and launch those projects which will target the markets of our countries and third countries...

Common electricity market with Russia may help reduce tariffs for Belarus’ real sector by 25%
A decision has been taken that the common electricity market with Russia will be launched in 2019, which means there will be a wholesale and retail electricity market inside Belarus...

Business Promotion Council to focus on systemic problems in Belarus
"We would like to focus on the problems that affect all regions, all economic entities and which are systemic in nature"...

Number of agreements signed at Belarusian-European Investment Forum
"The Chinese-Belarusian industrial park Great Stone starts showing its strength. Today head of the park administration Alexander Yaroshenko has signed several documents with different companies on the implementation of a number of projects"...

European Investment Bank to support Belarusian SMEs
The infrastructure projects, via which the bank is also ready to provide support, include the modernization of international transport corridors, municipal and environmental infrastructure...