Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov spoke about the developments and innovations in the national science in an interview to STV Channel, BelTA has learned. According to Vladimir Gusakov, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko pays great attention to the development of national science. “The head of state said that he would like to see a more prominent role of science and wider implementation of scientific developments. In...

Early spring crops have been sown on 19.3% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 9 April, early spring cereals and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 125,300ha, or 19.3% of the plan. Progress in sowing these crops reached 61.4% in Brest Oblast, 14.8% in Gomel Oblast, 50.4% in Grodno Oblast, 2.31% in Minsk Oblast, and 0.34% in Mogilev Oblast. Land for sowing early spring...

A delegation of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry is in Zimbabwe on a visit, the ministry told BelTA. The delegation is led by Head of the Civil Protection University of the Emergencies Ministry Ivan Polevoda. The delegation head noted that the visit would contribute to the establishment of partnership relations. Apart from that, it offers an opportunity to discuss prospects of development of Belarus-Zimbabwe cooperation in matters concerning the training of Zimbabwean...

The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) plans to establish exchange trade in metallurgy and agricultural products between enterprises of Belarus and North Ossetia-Alania, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange. “The experience of cooperation with other Russian regions shows that the exchange mechanism is expedient to use both for export and import operations. In the case of North Ossetia-Alania, supplies of metals and metal...

More than 86% of respondents do not plan to leave Belarus, Nikolai Sukhotsky, Deputy Director for Science and Innovations at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, said as he cited findings of a telephone poll in an interview with a BelTA correspondent. The Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus conducted a telephone interview survey “Public opinion on issues of wide concern”. The poll was running from 8 to 22...

It is necessary to do more to empower young people who can contribute new ideas and concepts to the development of the Union State, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Russia Dmitry Krutoi said in a recorded video message that was played during the online international round-table session dedicated to the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia, BelTA has learned. According to him, young people hold the key to the future of the Union State. “It is...