As of 1 November 2022, a total of 119,872 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 37,300 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br886 million, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. A total of 63,926 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 53,902 applied to use the money to improve housing...

The state philharmonics of Belarus and Russia's Chelyabinsk have signed an agreement on cooperation, BelTA learned from the Telegram channel of the Belarusian Culture Ministry. The document was signed during a working visit of a delegation of Chelyabinsk Oblast led by Governor Aleksei Teksler. Minister of Culture of Chelyabinsk Oblast Aleksei Betekhtin and Director of the Chelyabinsk State Philharmonics Aleksei Pelymsky met with Director General of the Belarusian State...

The Belarusian People's Congress will ensure quality control of decisions taken by the current government institutions, Chairman of the Standing Commission on International Affairs of the House of Representatives Andrei Savinykh said in an interview to the ONT channel, BelTA has learned. Andrei Savinykh noted that the bill on the Belarusian People's Congress, which is currently prepared, was actively discussed in the society. The Congress will consist of 1,200 delegates, a third of...

  Chairperson of the Standing Commission on Economy, Budget and Finance of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Tatiana Runets took part in the meeting of the Standing Commission on Economy and Finance of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, held at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of parliament. The session considered a wide range of draft model legislative acts in digitalization and digital...

The bill “On amendments to education laws” passed the first reading at the ninth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the seventh convocation, BelTA has learned. The bill was submitted to the House of Representatives by the Council of Ministers. It is designed to bring legislative acts into line with Law No. 154-Z “On Amending the Education Code of the Republic of Belarus” as of 14 January 2022. The bill deals with public relations regarding...

Minsk is in the top ten destinations for non-beach holidays among Russian tourists in November-December this year, BelTA learned from the hotel booking service tvil.ru. Sochi, St. Petersburg and Moscow are leading the ranking of the most popular destinations among Russian travelers in November-December. The "non-beach top ten" included Kislovodsk of Stavropol Territory, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg of Sverdlovsk Oblast , Makhachkala of Dagestan, Gagra and Yalta.