Events

Lukashenko approves appointment of deputy ministers of information, agriculture
Andrei Kuntsevich was appointed First Deputy Information Minister. Before this appointment, he served as Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration...

Lukashenko appoints new aides – inspectors for Minsk Oblast, Gomel Oblast
The two newly appointed aides to the president have considerable experience of work in the regions and are well informed about the problems of both urban and rural residents, the head of state noted. Now they will represent the president, which is a great responsibility...

Lukashenko congratulates BC Horizont EWBL champion title
“Your rock-solid team proved once again that Belarusian athletes can be a success in team sports”...

Call for youth R&D program in Belarus-Russia Union State
The program can be created under the aegis of the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Belarusian national youth union BRSM. Apart from that, two or three young researchers should be included into the commission in charge of forming the common R&D space of the Union State of Belarus and Russia for the sake of better understanding of project financing processes...

Plans to ease Belarus-Russia travel restrictions as vaccination gains traction
She added that Belmedpreparaty started producing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine last week. "This batch was sent for quality control to the Gamaleya center where it was developed. In April the vaccination will be rolled out to the general public"...

Bill on preventing Nazism rehabilitation past first reading
The bill clearly prohibits the glorification of Nazism, its financing, the operation of organizations that advocate the glorification of Nazism, including foreign organizations and including in the Internet...

Golovchenko, Mishustin to meet in April
State Secretary of the Belarus-Russia Union State Dmitry Mezentsev said as he joined the solemn meeting “The Union State: New opportunities” via videoconferencing...

Call to keep people informed about constitutional reform in Belarus
“There are some MPs on the Constitutional Commission. Of course, we should contribute to its work. It is also important to continue spreading awareness among Belarusians. People should be informed about the process of the constitutional reform, because they will make the final decision in a referendum,” Vladimir Andreichenko noted...

Lukashenko signs executive order on creating Belarusian COVID-19 vaccine
In line with the document in 2021-2023 the Healthcare Ministry and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will have to accomplish a series of measures to create the relevant vaccine...

FMs of Belarus, Finland talk over phone
The parties exchanged opinions about important matters on the bilateral and international agenda and discussed prospects for cooperation in the OSCE...

Russian airline Utair resumes flights to Minsk National Airport
The flight on the route Moscow (Vnukovo) – Minsk – Moscow (Vnukovo) will be performed on Wednesdays, with arrival in Minsk at 11:30 and departure for Moscow at 12:30...

Opinion: Belarus has no need to rewrite the Constitution anew
"Today it is necessary to strengthen the legal framework of our Basic Law to enable us to regulate social relations in all areas at a higher modern level"...

Lukashenko authorizes reciprocal sanctions
The document has been passed for the sake of ensuring security and protecting national interests of the Republic of Belarus...

Brest Oblast, China’s Hubei Province to step up cooperation
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Yuri Senko met with China’s Hubei Province Governor Wang Xiaodong in the city of Wuhan on 30 March...

Lukashenko: Final decision on government powers should be taken in 2021
"I studied them carefully. My first suggestion is that you shouldn’t pass them instantly and indiscriminately. It should be an evolutionary process. We have to finish the process before the draft of the new Constitution is submitted to a referendum"...

Lukashenko wishes Happy Passover to Jewish community
The head of state remarked that Belarus is a birthplace of many renowned people – famous sons and daughters of the Jewish people who have always been and remains an important participant of the inter-religious and social dialogue relying on the principles of unity, accord and mutual respect...

AirBaltic resumes flights to Minsk National Airport
Flights on the route Riga-Minsk-Riga will be performed on Thursdays and Sundays, with the arrival time in Minsk at 14:20 and the departure time at 15:10. The airline may increase the frequency of flights in the future...

Opinion: Agreement on pensions is vital for free movement of workforce
"It does not matter at all where in the union a person claims to receive a pension. It is crucial that all periods of work, directly performed by a citizen in any of the EAEU member states, are included in the length of service for pension accrual"...

Belarus, Russia's Leningrad Oblast sign cooperation agreement
The governor noted that Leningrad Oblast is considering the possibility of partnership with Belarus in choosing technologies for building household waste recycling enterprises on the basis of an enterprise located in Brest Oblast...

Lukashenko meets with Mezentsev
At the beginning of the meeting, the head of state touched on the topic of the epidemiological situation in the world, the production of COVID-19 vaccine in Belarus using the Russian technology and the work of scientists on a domestic vaccine...