CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev and Director of the Europe and Central Asia Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ariane Bauer exchanged views on the humanitarian situation in the CSTO areas of responsibility and border areas in the context of growing international tensions at a meeting in Moscow, learned from the CSTO press service. "The parties reaffirmed commitment to developing cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC in key areas of international...

In order to encourage more Indian tourists to visit Belarus it is necessary to shoot a Bollywood movie here, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Republic of Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha said answering journalists' questions, has learned. The ambassador emphasized that Belarus and India have everything in place to ramp up mutual tourist traffic. Naturally, the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a serious blow to the travel industry, but even in pre-COVID...

As of 1 June 2022, a total of 116 470 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, including 82,500 deposit accounts at the total amount of $825 million and 33,900 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br739 million, learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. A total of 58,53 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 50,488 applied to use the money to improve housing conditions,...

More than 45,000 Ukrainian nationals arrived in Belarus since February, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. “From 6.00 on 24 February to 6.00 on 12 August, Belarus admitted 45,125 citizens of Ukraine,” the committee said. Almost 30,000 of them arrived in Belarus via the EU countries.

On 11 August Minsk bid farewell to the former head of the BSSR Nikolai Slyunkov in a ceremony at the Central House of Officers. Nikolai Slyunkov headed Minsk Tractor Plant from 1965 to 1972. Then he held the post of First Secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist...

Head of the International Military Cooperation Department, Aide for International Military Cooperation to the Belarusian Defense Minister, Colonel Valery Revenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cuba to Belarus Santiago Perez Benitez on 10 August, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. The meeting also included the accreditation of Colonel Monica Milian Gomez, military, naval and air attache to the Embassy of Cuba in Russia with concurrent...