Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik and Governor of Russia's Irkutsk Oblast Igor Kobzev held a meeting to discuss a number of new promising bilateral projects in Moscow on 20 January, BelTA has learned. “Today we have discussed a number of matters: supplies of dump trucks, food products, construction of landmark sports facilities. We also touched upon the modernization of the tram fleet in Irkutsk Oblast. We agreed that in late February, a Belarusian delegation led by...

Belarus and Vietnam agreed on measures of bilateral military cooperation for 2025, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. Following the agreements reached during the official visit of Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin to Vietnam, a delegation from the External Relations Department of the Vietnamese National Defense Ministry is paying a working visit to Minsk. During the visit, the parties held a meeting to agree on the measures of bilateral military cooperation for...

Results of a recent opinion poll suggest that 85.5% of Belarusians plan to take part in the presidential election, Head of the Department of Economic Sociology and Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Head of the Center for Social and Humanitarian Studies of Belarusian State Economic University Irina Lashuk told BelTA. Respondents were asked: “Are you going to take part in the upcoming election?” Some 85.5% of the respondents answered in the positive, 4.8% answered in the negative and...

Best practices of Belarus-Russia Union State should be scaled up in the EAEU, Olga Lazorkina, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR), told BelTA. She believes that this year will be a landmark for both the Eurasian Economic Union and Belarus. "Over the previous three years, we have implemented all the projects related to economy and finances, in particular within the Union State. Nowadays, we not only need to reach a new level of cooperation with Russia...

The level of access to the centralized water supply system in Belarus is one of the highest in the world, First Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of Belarus Andrei Beketa said in an interview to the First News TV Channel, BelTA has learned. “The main parameter characterizing the level of development of the water supply and sanitation system is an access to centralized water supply and wastewater treatment systems. Today, the level of access in Belarus is one of the highest...

As of 1 January 2025, a total of 143,211 large families have opened deposit accounts in Belarus under the family capital program, including 82,600 deposit accounts to the total amount of $826 million and 60,600 deposit accounts to the total amount of Br1,57 billion, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. As of 1 January 2025, a total of 91,909 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 74,111...