Omicron BA.2 (dubbed Stealth Omicron) spreads even faster, but it is less severe than its parent strain called BA.1, Yelena Gasich, head of the laboratory for diagnosing HIV and concomitant infections at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs. Yelena Gasich noted that the both Omicron subvariants appeared almost simultaneously. Initially, there was a surge in BA.1 but then it began to be gradually replaced by its...

The Culture Ministry chose Belarus' Capital of Culture 2023 at the meeting of its collegium on 23 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the Culture Ministry. The meeting was held at the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater. Six cities and town claimed the title of Belarus' next Capital of Culture: Baranovichi of Brest Oblast, Mozyr of Gomel Oblast, Svisloch and Shchuchin of Grodno Oblast, Slutsk of Minsk Oblast, Belynichi of Mogilev Oblast. The towns made presentations...

Roaming charges for incoming calls will be canceled in the territory of the Belarus-Russia Union State on 1 April, the press service of the Russian government said following the meeting of the High-Level Group under the Union State Council of Ministers on 23 March, BelTA informs. “Work continued to implement the action plan to make communication services in the Union State more convenient,” the government of the Russian Federation noted. “The participants of the meeting...

Another 117 places of mass execution were identified in Belarus in 2022, Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told journalists at the Khatyn memorial complex on 22 March, BelTA has learned. “This place is sacred to all of us; it embodies the tragedy that took place here during the Great Patriotic War. We are actively investigating the facts of the genocide, and every day more and more information is coming to the surface. Thus, a group of specialists of the Prosecutor General's...

Every citizen of Belarus and guests to the of the country should know what price Belarus paid during the Great Patriotic War, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko told the media in the Khatyn memorial complex, BelTA has learned. "Every person, who have been to Khatyn, who have heard the the bells ringing here, will forever remember the tragic events that took place on our land, the people who died here. So that we could enjoy life, develop the country, study, work, make...

Chairman of the Standing Commission on Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Council of the Republic Sergei Rachkov took part in a meeting of the Eurasia Group coordinating joint action of the parliamentary delegation of the CIS member state on the sidelines od the 144th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary in Nusa Dua, Indonesia on 20 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of Belarusian Parliament. The meeting was presided by Aigul Kuspan, the...