Belarus and Russia should be the architects of their own future, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Head of Russia’s Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in Kazan on 21 February, BelTA has learned. Upon the arrival in Tatarstan, the head of state headed for the Kazan Kremlin to have a bilateral meeting with Rustam Minnikhanov. “Perhaps it is good that circumstances have pushed us towards each other. We have stopped arguing for no reason. We have realized that we...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has gone on a working visit to the Russian Federation, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

It is important we continue improving the anti-terrorism response system in Belarus, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a large meeting with the senior staff of the national security agencies in Minsk on 20 February, BelTA has learned.  "Our self-exiled opposition and their handlers from the special services are looking for people t recruit for terrorist attacks and sabotage. There are enough facts. It is good that the terrorists have been identified and detained. But the...

On 16 February, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 56 "On the Secretariat of the Belarusian People's Congress", BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. 

It is necessary to come up with a nationwide concept for providing services to the rural population, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the general meeting of the Belarusian national union of consumer societies Belkoopsoyuz on 16 February, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent a message to internationalist soldiers and veterans of the war in Afghanistan on the occassion of the anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet Army troops from  Afghanistan, BelTA learned from the press service of the head of state.