Opinions & Interviews

Call to take special care of frontline soldiers, homefront workers in Belarus
"We mourn the victims of the war - women, elderly and children. They had more than their fair share of hardships during the occupation. Lasting memory to those who wanted to live but fell on battlefields, died of wounds or in the concentration camps and ghettos"...

Lukashenko: Future generations should know the price our people paid for freedom
“The Great Victory is the triumph of life over death. Coming generations should know what price our people paid for freedom. In the name of goodness, justice and peace. Nothing similar must never happen again,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

Opinion: Belarusians have survived as a nation thanks to memory about ancestors’ feats
“We are here, on this holy land, to pay tribute to the immortal feat of our ancestors, partisans. who 75 years ago broke the Nazi blockade. The memorable dates that we celebrate these days of May are important for every Belarusian”...

Belarusian PR firms encouraged to dominate domestic market
“The Information Ministry attaches great importance to the development of public relations. PR is not only about certain ideas, positive images and reputation. It is also about business. We want the Belarusian PR market to be dominated by Belarusian companies, and this is something we have been working toward”...

Belarus’ food export to China up 15 times over two years
"Today the People's Republic of China is a major economic actor on the global market. Thanks to China, the international economic relations are tilting towards openness and mutual cooperation thus giving us a possibility to overcome flimsy artificial barriers"...

China ready to increase investment in Belt and Road foreign markets
He stressed the importance of Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s participation in the first and second forums for international cooperation in Beijing. The Belarusian head of state was one of the first to support the Belt and Road initiative, Xu Rongmao said...

Joint cultural projects to advance Belarus-Liechtenstein cooperation
Vladimir Makei stressed that there are good prospects and a serious potential for further advancement of Belarus-Liechtenstein contacts...

Discussion about terms of 5G deployment in Belarus in progress
5G is a new generation of high-speed data transfer technologies. It is the successor of the previous standards GSM, 3G, 4G/LTE. The first few zones to test 5G have already been deployed in Belarus...

Belarusian nuclear power plant seen as international supplier of electricity
According to the politician, it would be possible to gather a group of experts from the entire world in order to monitor the Belarusian nuclear power plant and give a competent opinion...

Opinion: Mass media should focus more on positive agenda
“By honestly presenting the life in all its diversity, without hushing problems, mass media should focus more on a positive agenda. Not to destroy but to build,” Aleksandr Karlyukevich noted...

Opinion: Journalists should be aware of their responsibility
"We did our best to feature more experts, speakers with different points of view. We have also expanded the framework of the expo by inviting printed media distributors, publishers, PR community, social media professionals"...

Belarus president in favor of decent organization of parliamentary elections
“Don’t go far away from the pre-election campaign – together with public organizations, government agencies, political parties may play some role in the process regardless of whether they are opposition ones or, as we say, pro-government ones”...

Lukashenko: Successful development of journalism crucial for information sovereignty of Belarus
“The successful development of professional journalism is one of the most important factors of the information sovereignty of Belarus”...

Certain forces in Lithuania exploit Belarusian nuclear power plant to further political agenda
Rolandas Paksas believes it is necessary to overcome the mistrust in Lithuania. In his opinion, to make it happen, the process of building the Belarusian nuclear power plant should be as transparent as possible...

Belarus to help advance EAEU-Serbia free trade zone negotiations
Mikhail Myasnikovich stressed that Belarus supports the initiative of creating a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and Serbia. “We are going to facilitate more dynamic advancement of the negotiations on the EAEU-Serbia free trade zone agreement,” he noted...

Ambassador: Belarus-Azerbaijan trade over $500m in 2018
According to him, many promising projects are in the pipeline. The cooperation between Azerbaijan and Belarus has been developing rapidly in all areas. For example, the ambassador mentioned a joint Belarus-Azerbaijan enterprise to assemble agricultural machinery in Turkey’s Kirikkale city...

Great Stone park hailed as example of international cooperation in industry
“Great Stone is an example of international cooperation in a lot of areas, including in industry. The project is a good one and I would like to congratulate our partners on its successful implementation,” Nabi Avci said...

EAEU urged to deal with rising number of trade barriers
However, there is still a number of unresolved issues, Sergei Rumas note. "The key goal of the EAEU was to form an effective internal market of the member states with all four freedoms. There are still a lot of challenges on this way"...

China-Belarus industrial park envisaged as major manufacturing, logistics hub
"We see this pearl. It is one of the largest parks of this kind. I am sure that in the near future it will become a major center for not only manufacturing but for the logistics of selling cutting-edge innovative products and goods"...

Ambassador: Belarus-Sweden trade, economic cooperation evolving rapidly
The export of services has been one of contributors to growth. A special interest is in the Belarusian IT-sector, according to the diplomat. two Swedish companies have registered with the Hi-Tech Park just recently...