Four children's rooms for Ukrainian migrant families have opened in Gomel Oblast, learned from the head of the management and personnel department of the Gomel Oblast branch of the Belarus Red Cross Artyom Karpenko. The children's rooms are now available in Novobelitsky District of Gomel, in Mozyr, Kalinkovichi and Rechitsa. The goal of this project is to facilitate adaptation of families with children who were forced to leave their homes and their country. “In such rooms,...

MINSK, 3 August – Work is in progress to devise a set of measures to combat crime and corruption in Belarus in 2023-2025, Head of the Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime at the Prosecutor General's Office Igor Greibo told reporters in Minsk on 3 August, has learned. A program to combat crime and corruption for 2020-2022, approved at the national coordinating meeting in 2019 is currently in force in the country. The program is nearing the end, and the...

Over 158,000 foreign nationals have visited Belarus without visas, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. As of 00:00 on 1 August, 158,509 citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland took advantage of Belarus' visa waiver program. “Since 15 April when Belarus reopened border for visa waiver arrivals, 102,577 citizens of Lithuania, 12,728 non-citizens and 40,980 citizens of Latvia have visited Belarus. Since 1 July, when a visa waiver program for Poland was launched,...

MINSK, 1 August – Belarus' harvest has reached 1,659,500 tonnes of grain, learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 1 August, grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were harvested from 20.4% of the planned area (435,800 hectares). Harvesting was completed on 41.2% of the area (142,700 hectares) in Brest Oblast, 4.91% (17,800 hectares) in Vitebsk Oblast, 30.8% (106,900 hectares) in Gomel Oblast, 19.4% (59,200 hectares) in Grodno...

MINSK, 29 July – Belarus has every right to show the truth to the world, and it once again declares the inadmissibility of the findings of the ICAO report on the incident involving the Ryanair flight FR4978 and will consistently and persistently prove its innocence, Head of the Central Office of Multilateral Diplomacy of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Irina Velichko told. At the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on 28 July the Delegation of Belarus to the OSCE responded...

MINSK, 27 July – Financing of the state investment program has been augmented by more than 50%, First Deputy Economy Minister Yuri Chebotar said commenting on Decree No. 257 signed by the head of state to clarify the 2022 state investment program, has learned. “In 2022 we will allocate more than Br357 million extra to implement the state investment program. Funds will be spent to build and renovate 145 facilities, like major roads and bridges, rental housing, deferrization...