Aerial units of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry have returned to Belarus from Türkiye where they had provided assistance with fighting fires, the ministry told BelTA. Mi-8 helicopters landed at the Lipki airfield. While in Türkiye they rendered assistance with fighting fires in mountainous areas. They departed from the Turkish airport Trabzon and had to make stopovers in Mineralnyye Vody, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Kaluga, and Vitebsk. Deputy Emergencies Minister Igor Bolotov...

The minimum wage in Belarus will increase by 14.7% on 1 January, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a meeting with deputies of the House of Representatives and members of the Council of the Republic in the Oval Hall, BelTA has learned. “Since the beginning of the year, the monthly minimum wage has been increased by a total of 15.6%, and on 1 January it will rise by another 14.7% to amount to Br554. The government will formalize this decision in the near future,” Roman...

Belarus and China plan to implement 35 science and technology projects by 2024, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology Sergei Shlychkov told journalists at the fourth meeting of the commission on sci-tech cooperation of the Belarus-China intergovernmental committee on cooperation, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee for Science and Technology. Sergei Shlychkov noted that the two countries should approved these projects and be genuinely...

Kazakhstan Culture Days are taking place in Belarus on 28-30 November, BelTA learned from the Culture Ministry. A master class by the State String Quartet named after Gaziza Zhubanova was held at the Belarusian State Academy of Music on 28 November. The string quartet will give a concert at the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society the same day. In the evening Kazakhstan Cinema Days will open at the Belarus movie theater. On 29 November, Arman Zhudebayev, the rector of Kurmangazy...

Deputy Director of the National Center for Recuperation and Health Resort Treatment Aleksandr Tsai spoke about the performance of Belarusian health resorts and medical spas on the BelTA YouTube channel. According to Aleksandr Tsai, it was a good year for Belarus' health resorts and medical spas. Belarusian health resorts performed better than last year across all indicators, and even better than in the pre-pandemic period across some indicators. “The average occupancy rate of...

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus signed a cooperation agreement in Moscow on 24 November, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian parliamentary delegation led by Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalya Kochanova is paying an official visit to Russia on 24-25 November on the invitation of Chairperson of the Federation Council of the...