Belarus and Russia do not accept the destructive ideologies the West is trying to implant and they reject attempts to glorify Nazism, reads the statement on the common foreign policy priorities of Russia and Belarus signed by Foreign Ministers Sergei Aleinik and Sergey Lavrov following the talks in Moscow on 17 May, BelTA has learned. “Our countries are committed to traditional spiritual and moral values and do not accept the destructive and alien ideologies inculcated by the...

Export by the Belarusian Kommunarka confectionery factory rose by more more than 20% in the first quarter of this year, director of Kommunarka, a member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Sergei Anyukhovsky told BelTA. According to him, the factory met all the targets in the first quarter. The production has been on the rise. "Export increased by more than 20%. We supply goods to more than 20 countries but the main markets for us are Russia, China, Uzbekistan...

 Belarus and Azerbaijan signed a number of documents on cooperation following the meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation in Baku. The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko of Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian government. Most of the documents relate to cooperation in the manufacturing sector. A roadmap to set up an elevator assembly plant in Azerbaijan for 2023-2024 was signed between...

A delegation from Zimbabwe, headed by Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development Amon Murwira is expected to visit Belarusian State Technological University (BSTU) on 14 May, BelTA learned from the university. Attending the meeting will be Belarusian First Deputy Education Minister Aleksandr Bakhanovich and rector of Belarusian State Technological University Igor Voitov. The Zimbabwean delegation will get familiar with the...

Belarusian Cement Company has increased cement shipments to Russia by almost 4 times, BelTA learned from Belarusian Cement Company (BCC). "BCC has been progressively increasing the supply of cement to the Russian market, fully compensating for the lost exports to the European Union. In April 2023, the company hut another milestone by shipping more than 231,000 tonnes of cement to Russia. It was 3.8 times more than in 2019 and 2.3 times more than in April 2022," the company said....

The industrial optimism index is growing. The Belarusian Economy Ministry made the conclusion after studying results of a market situation survey conducted by the ministry's Economy Research Institute last month, BelTA has learned. According to the survey, positive attitudes among heads of Belarusian industrial enterprises are on the rise: the industrial optimism index has been growing continuously for half a year. An increase in workload of the Belarusian enterprises, the output of...