The State Committee on Science and Technology of Belarus and Rosatom State Corporation have signed a protocol on amendments to the comprehensive program of Belarusian-Russian cooperation in nuclear non-energy and non-nuclear projects in digitalization and telecommunication technologies, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee on Science and Technology. The program is supplemented with such areas as digitalization of government bodies and services, digitalization of the...

CIS consultations on military and political issues in the OSCE region were held under the chairmanship of the Russian delegation to the Vienna negotiations on military security and arms control in Vienna on 25 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee. Attending the meeting were representatives of Azerbaijan (as observers), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The CIS Executive Committee delegation was led by CIS Deputy Secretary...

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial, BelTA has learned. The ministers laid flowers and observed a minute of silence to honor the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland. The legendary citadel over the Bug is a symbol of courage for the peoples of Belarus and Russia. The Brest Fortress was the first to face the Nazi invaders in June 1941 and repulse them....

Nineteen Belarusian citizens have been evacuated from Lebanon, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus. "Our diplomats in Syria, together with Russian partners, organized the evacuation of 19 Belarusian citizens seeking to leave Lebanon due to the difficult military-political situation in the region. They are literally on the way to Moscow on board of a special aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations," the ministry informed....

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is conducting scheduled inspections at the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) and the United Energy and Nuclear Research Institute Sosny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), BelTA learned from the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor). Belarus is a party to the Agreement for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of...

As it has been reported, the command and staff exercise is running in Belarus with the participation of subjects of the state response system on 19- 22 November. It was launched on the instruction of the Belarusian president, under the auspices of the State Secretariat of the Security Council, under the leadership of the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov. State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich is taking part in the exercise. "Today, in accordance with the...