Events

Lukashenko harvests potatoes in his garden on Saturday
The head of state worked all day. The potato harvest was 105 tonnes from 3 hectares, with the yield of 350 centners per hectare...

Belarus president sets priorities in sport spending
“Some people get offended that the National Olympic Committee does not give them money. Don’t blame NOC. It is I, who has forbidden spending money on useless trips and all kinds of PR stuff. You can get money from NOC, money is available, but only for athletes and coaches. And sometimes for events like travelling to some tournament, for instance. We will help with that. But we will not give money for some functionaries or business trips”...

Lukashenko wants fewer foreign players in Belarusian ice hockey
“We will have 3 or 4 foreign players next year. This is my requirement. We cannot pay the money to the players who are not on the national team. The most important things are the national team and the Dinamo club,” he said...

Lukashenko: No more easy money in sport
“We have built a system to provide material and financial support to ice hockey players. The same approach will be used in every kind of sport, primarily in competitive sports”...

Polish parliamentary delegation to visit Belarus 29-31 August
The program of the visit includes meetings with the chairmen of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. The delegation members are set to visit Grodno Oblast, to hold talks in FEZ Grodnoinvest and see the sights of the region...

Sudanese parliamentary delegation to visit Belarus 26-31 August
The Sudanese delegation will visit Belarus to get familiar with the economic, industrial, agricultural, scientific and educational potential of the country...

Belarusian national cultural autonomy registered in Russia’s Karelia
The nongovernmental organization will be chaired by Svetlana Bartashevich, member of the Council on International Relations at the Head of the Republic of Karelia...

Egypt foreign minister to visit Belarus 27-28 August
The visit of the Egyptian minister of foreign affairs will be the first one in the history of the bilateral relations between the two countries...

Belarus’ Prime Minister to visit Mogilev Oblast 25 August
The head of government is set to visit OAO Mogilev Lenok (Mogilev District) where he will be briefed on the status of the dairy industry of Mogilev Oblast...

Belarus, Spain discuss ways to bolster legal base of bilateral relations
During the meeting the sides discussed the implementation of the agreements reached during the visit of Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei to Spain in June 2017...

Syrian labor minister made familiar with Belarusian social services
Rima al-Qadiri visited the Belarusian national rehabilitation center for children with disabilities in Minsk...

Belarusian universities told to publish new admission rules in advance
“We need to keep working on the university enrollment system. It should provide the candidates with an opportunity to demonstrate their logical and creative thinking. I would like to warn you that when amending admission requirements the public should be informed about this in a timely manner”...

Lukashenko: Centralized tests should be fully in sync with school curriculum
“I would like the Education Ministry to make sure that centralized tests in all subjects are revised and are fully in sync with school curriculum in 2018,” Alexander Lukashenko said during the plenary session of the Nationwide Conference on Teaching...

Belarus president wants teacher salaries fixed in 2018
“We didn’t press the issue but during the latest report I warned the education minister and the vice premier that the problem of teachers complaining about low salaries should be fixed next year. I am not talking about the size of salaries"...

Lukashenko calls to ‘improve’ education system, not ‘break’ it
“You know my approaches to the transformation, modernization, and reformation of the education system in Belarus. The point is that I strongly oppose any breakdown, even reformation in the real sense of this word”...

Lukashenko sends Independence Day greetings to Ukraine
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has sent greetings to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko as the country celebrates Independence Day...

Belarus thanked for help in tackling wildfires in Georgia
The Mi-26 helicopter landed in Georgia at 07:12 on 23 August. Soon after that it started extinguishing a forest fire in the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park...

Belarus' government endorses agreement on mutual recognition of academic certificates with Ecuador
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been instructed to send a notice to Ecuador confirming that Belarus had completed the national procedures required for the agreement to come into effect...

CIS plenipotentiaries to meet in Minsk 29 August
One of the main issues on the agenda will be the draft agenda of the next meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government due in Tashkent in November this year...

Lukashenko to take part in Nationwide Conference on Teaching
The event will take place in the form of an open discussion. Partaking in it will be over 800 people, including high-ranking officials, heads of government bodies and local authorities, MPs, workers of educational institutions from all regions of Belarus and the city of Minsk...