Trade between Belarus and Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast has been consistently high, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said as he met with Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuyvashev, BelTA has learned. "Mutual trade has been consistently high and growing. In 2021 it amounted to about $500 million, last year it was almost $750 million. A Belarusian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko is on a working visit to three Russian regions:...

In 2023 over Br150 million is supposed to be spent on the projects stipulated by the government program on innovation-driven development and assigned to the Industry Ministry, Belarusian Industry Minister Aleksandr Rogozhnik told BelTA in an interview. Aleksandr Rogozhnik said: “As many as 21 innovative projects assigned to the Industry Ministry are included in the government program on innovation-driven development. There are plans to spend over Br150 million on realizing...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) should offer all countries methods to minimize harm from unilateral coercive measures, Belarus' representative to the FAO Kirill Petrovsky said during a session of the FAO Council on global food security, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “There is a saying: A lie has a short life. I am confident that 2022 year was enough for the FAO Council to clearly understand...

Belarus' Zelva is hosting a workshop meeting on the 2nd Congress of Small Towns of Grodno Oblast of Belarus and Nizhny Novgorod Region of Russia, BelTA has learned. The forum is scheduled to take place in September. “Last year the first Russian-Belarusian forum of small towns was held in Nizhny Novgorod. We have decided that such forums should be held every year and take place in Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Republic of Belarus on a rota basis. Today we are set to discuss how we...

Representatives of Belarus and Malaysia discussed the development of military ties, BelTA learned from the Defense Ministry of Belarus. The International Military Cooperation Department at the Defense Ministry hosted an accreditation meeting between First Deputy Head of the International Military Cooperation Department Aleksandr Vengura and Defense Attaché at the Embassy of Malaysia in Russia and concurrently in Belarus Colonel Sebastian Arokiaraj William. This is the first...

Digital economy is important for the development of the single economic space of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko said as he opened the fifth edition of the Eurasian Digital Forum on the sidelines of the TIBO 2023 international forum, BelTA has learned. According to Igor Petrishenko, the Eurasian Digital Forum has become a good tradition of TIBO and an integral important part of its program. It brings together representatives of...