Opinions & Interviews

Lukashenko praises private farmers again
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko praised Belarusian farmers twice this week and suggested scaling up this form of farming, including by transferring additional farmland to farmers...

PM gives details about election of Presidium of Belarusian People’s Congress
Roman Golovchenko recalled that the chair of the Belarusian People’s Congress, the deputy chair and the Presidium will be chosen by the delegates themselves...

Chen Zhou: Relations between Xi, Lukashenko attest to China-Belarus iron brotherhood
According to him, Belarus and China have already achieved excellent results within the Belt and Road initiative and now seek to fill their cooperation with new content and respond to global challenges together...

Opinion: Belarus has retained nuclear energy competences
Belarus has retained its nuclear energy competences, which allows developing nuclear medicine...

Lukashenko: There are still many untapped reserves in agriculture
"We, our generation, need to hold the country together. Draw on the experience: we have enough experience that we can draw on scale up," Aleksandr Lukashenko said...

PM: Economies of Belarus, Russia have passed a serious stress test
“The resilience that our economies have built is quite significant. The number one task for our governments now is to keep coordinating and collaborating in order to address common challenges,” added the prime minister of Belarus...

Mishustin names Vasilevskaya’s spaceflight ‘a historic one’
“I would like to heartily congratulate you on the historic event - the first spaceflight of Belarusian woman cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya. Our presidents held a meeting with the participants of the 21st expedition to the International Space Station earlier,” Mikhail Mishustin said...

Vasilevskaya: Belarus, Russia will continue to explore space together
Hero of Belarus told the media after a meeting with the leaders of the two countries in the Kremlin...

Lukashenko: No need for Belarus to participate in hostilities now or ever
Belarusian President said at a media scrum in the Kremlin...

FM: Economy and security must top the CIS agenda
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik said at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council in Minsk on 12 April...

Lukashenko to journalists: Space is ours! Yours and ours!
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that Belarusians flew into space in Soviet times. "Today our girl flew into space... Well, we are training a few more girls. They say our girls are stronger. Therefore, we seek to get ourselves into the Russian program and work together with you in space," he said...

Lukashenko against idea of mobilizing women into army
The Russian journalists asked the head of state this question in connection with the idea of this kind announced earlier in Ukraine...

Lukashenko names spaceflight historic victory for sovereign Belarus
Aleksandr Lukashenko assured that Belarus will continue developing space technologies: “We will do everything, and we will achieve a lot more”...

Vasilevskaya: I devote my spaceflight to native Belarus
According to Marina Vasilevskaya, she cannot believe that she has been named the Hero of Belarus, but she fully understands the responsibility of this title...

FM: Belarus aims to maintain momentum in cooperation with Uzbekistan
Sergei Aleinik emphasized that this was the first official visit of the Uzbek foreign minister in the history of Belarusian-Uzbek relations to follow up on the high-level agreements between the two countries...

Belarus’ first cosmonaut returns home
Marina Vasilevskaya had spent the last five days in the Zvyozdny Gorodok undergoing a post flight reconditioning program, and today she came home to a warm welcome of several dozen representatives of public associations, students and journalists...

Akulovich: Parallel Worlds exhibition will turn into a book
"The exhibition will be made into a book. We are now working on this. One of the authors, Sergei Musiyenko, spent more than one week in the library, scanning the materials," Irina Akulovich said...

Lukashenko weighs in on problems in Belarusian manufacturing sector
The head of state asked what measures are being taken to protect the domestic market. What exactly has been done and is being done...

Lukashenko: Industry modernization should gain momentum
“We should already be preparing research infrastructure and training engineering and technical personnel to develop promising technologies and create a scientific and technical basis for the further development of the microelectronic industry,” Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized...

Lukashenko wants Belarusian products to achieve Japanese-level quality
"In the Year of Quality (and beyond), our products must meet the highest quality standards. There is no other way. This is not an option but a necessity"...