Foreign tourists now choose premium-class hotels in Belarus more often, Aleksei Strelchenko, an assistant to the director general of the Hotel Holding Company of the Belarusian President Property Directorate, told a press conference, BelTA has learned. "The first quarter of 2022 was not optimistic for the hotel business. Yet, things improved eventually. First of all, it was thanks to the unprecedented growth in the influx of Russian tourists to Belarus. So, if we consider hotels by...

Almost 380,000 foreigners have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has hosted 378,290 arrivals: 244,017 citizens of Lithuania, 26,534 non-citizens and 86,752 citizens of Latvia, and 20,987 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted over 8,000 visa-waiver arrivals, most of them being citizens of Lithuania. More...

The names of the Belarusian candidates for a manned space flight have been revealed. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with the Belarusian cosmonaut candidates at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Center in Russia on 24 December, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian candidates for a manned space flight are: Belavia stewardesses Marina Vasilevskaya and Viktoriya Fidrus, a forensic expert from Brest Oblast Darya Mikhnyuk, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Baranovichi...

Belarusian laptops became available in retail shops on 22 December, on the second day after mass production of the laptops began, BelTA has learned. A solemn ceremony to launch laptop sales took place in Galleria Minsk. The presentation of the Belarusian laptops attracted a lot visitors and buyers. You can take a look at the new Belarusian laptop, get professional advice from Horizont specialists, and buy a laptop now. Deputy Chairwoman of the Minsk City Executive Committee...

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Belarus Xie Xiaoyong on 21 December, BelTA has learned. Topical matters of Belarus-China cooperation were discussed. Close attention was paid to the realization of agreements reached during a meeting of the heads of state of Belarus and China. Mutual commitment to further expansion and enhancement of bilateral interaction was reaffirmed.

Trade between Belarus and Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria surged by 61% in January-September, Belarusian Information Minister Vladimir Pertsov said during a meeting of the joint working group on cooperation between Belarus and Kabardino-Balkaria, BelTA learned from the Information Ministry. In January-September 2022 trade between Belarus and Kabardino-Balkaria amounted to $12.1 million ($7.5 million in the same period in 2021), or up by 61%, Vladimir Pertsov said. "We will close the...