Belarusian Education Minister Andrei Ivanets revealed some preliminary results of the 2024 university admissions process as he spoke to the media on 5 August, BelTA has learned. “This year's entrance scores for a number of specialties are quite high, despite the fact that the total number of free-tuition places has been increased by almost 3,000, primarily for the most demanded specialties - teaching, engineering and healthcare,” Andrei Ivanets said. “Today, as promised, we have...

More than 6.1 million tonnes of grain, including rapeseed, has been threshed in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 5 August, 6.178 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed) was harvested, which includes 5.127 million tonnes of cereals and leguminous crops and 1.051 tonnes of winter rapeseed. The regional breakdown is the following: Minsk Oblast harvested 1.634 million tonnes of grain (including rapeseed), Brest Oblast 1.449 million tonnes, Grodno Oblast...

Representatives of the ruling circles of the West try to manipulate the terms to describe the exchange of prisoners between Russia, the USA, and Germany, BelTA learned from Vadim Gigin, Director General of the National Library of Belarus, Chairman of the Board of the republican state public association Belarusian Society Znanie. BelTA reported earlier that Russia, the USA, and Germany swapped 26 prisoners in the Ankara airport on 1 August. The prisoners, who were exchanged, included the...

Former head of a regional branch of the opposition party Narodnaya Gromada Olga Tishkevich told the ONT TV channel why she decided to come back to Belarus from Lithuania and what the self-exiled opposition feels about its life away from Belarus, BelTA has learned. “One gets a feeling of getting into a madhouse. They live in a different reality, their world is deranged. These people are indoctrinated, they act against Lithuania and Belarus. I have been to this cuckoo's nest, it feels...

Former head of a regional branch of the opposition party Narodnaya Gromada Olga Tishkevich told the ONT TV channel about financial frauds among the self-exiled opposition, BelTA has learned. Olga Tishkevich spoke about Yevgeny Vilsky, the acting head of Narodnaya Gromada. In her words, he does not enjoy authority in the opposition and foreign political movements and parties. In case of danger or compromising situation he is inclined to whitewash his own figure to the detriment of other...

Former head of a regional branch of the opposition party Narodnaya Gromada Olga Tishkevich told the ONT TV channel about feuds in the ranks of the Belarusian opposition, BelTA has learned. The ONT TV channel remarked that Narodnaya Gromada is an unregistered political organization that is not held in high esteem among the opposition, including due to mistrust towards its leader Nikolai Statkevich. The organization heavily relies on grants from foreign donors. In 2011 Nikolai Statkevich was...