Protection of motherhood and childhood in Belarus is one of the priorities of state policy, Lyudmila Aleinik, the spouse of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, said as she addressed an event on the occasion of International Children's Day in Gymnasium No. 12 in Minsk on 1 June, BelTA has learned. The meeting was attended by spouses of ambassadors accredited to Belarus and women ambassadors. "Today we are here to celebrate a very good and kind...

MINSK, 1 June (BelTA) – The self-exiled opposition asked their Western sponsors to provide $250 million for subversive activities against Belarus, Chairman of the State Security Committee (KGB) of Belarus Ivan Tertel told reporters, BelTA has learned.   According to him, most of ill-wishers live abroad and rely on the self-exiled opposition based in Vilnius and Warsaw. The KGB has recently received information from Western Europe about another financial request of the...

MINSK, 31 May (BelTA) - The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation adopted the bill “On the Ratification of the Protocol between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on Amendments to the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on Joint Provision of Regional Security of 19 December 1997” at its ninth session on 31 May, BelTA has learned.   The bill was submitted to the House...

The meeting of the ninth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the seventh convocation is scheduled to take place on 31 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the House of Representatives. A number of bills will go through the first reading on this day. They include the bills “On amending laws on entrepreneurial activity”, “On people's militia”, “On amending laws on healthcare”, “On amending the law of the Republic of Belarus “On...

Belarus has hosted over 178,285 arrivals from the neighboring EU countries since 1 January 2023, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the start of the year, Belarus has welcomed 117,724 citizens of Lithuania, 34,473 citizens and 10,336 non-citizens of Latvia, and 15,752 Polish citizens. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program, 563,000 citizens of the neighboring EU states took advantage of the program to visit Belarus, including 365,987 citizens of...

Belarusian and Russian scientists intend to develop cooperation in space, microelectronics and software development, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Vladimir Gusakov told reporters before a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Russian Academy of Sciences, BelTA has learned. "More than 50 scientific programs of the Union State have already been completed. The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has...