Timely managerial decisions accelerate business turnaround, Stanislav Sadovnikov, Deputy Director of the Reorganization and Bankruptcy Department of the Economy Ministry, said as he delivered a lecture as part of advanced training of specialists who will represent the government in the management bodies of joint-stock companies, BelTA learned from the press service of the Economy Ministry. Stanislav Sadovnikov spoke at Belarusian State Economic University and the Center for...

Paramilitary units are being trained in Poland and Lithuania in order to destabilize the situation in Belarus, the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry told BelTA. Personnel of the Central Office for Fight Against Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry received information about the creation of a paramilitary extremist force titled as Pospolitoye Rusheniye in Poland and Lithuania and about the units the force is made up of. These...

Over 362,000 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 362,300 arrivals: 25,389 non-citizens and 82,675 citizens of Latvia, 234,971 Lithuanian citizens and 19 265 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted 4,227 visa-waiver arrivals: 241 non-citizens and 751 citizens of Latvia, 2,804 citizens...

The share of the Hi-Tech Park in Belarus' export of services totaled 29.2% in January-September 2022, the Hi-Tech Park press service told BelTA. After delivering a report to Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko in November 2022 Director of the Hi-Tech Park Vsevolod Yanchevsky remarked that the Hi-Tech Park's export exceeded $2 billion in January-September 2022 and was expected to rise even higher by the end of the year. The Hi-Tech Park press service added that companies residing...

  Import substitution should become the driver of the exchange trade between Belarus and Karelia, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) Eduard Belsky said, BelTA learned from the BUCE press service.  “Our trading platform is already used by companies from ten Russian regions. They act as buyers and suppliers of import-substituting goods. Moreover, a significant part of them uses BUCE services on a regular basis. As a result, in...

Controlling agencies of European Union countries continue slowly clearing the vehicles that leave Belarus, the State Customs Committee of Belarus told BelTA. Belarus' Customs believes that controlling agencies of neighboring countries deliberately slow down the traffic. The Polish side clears 48% of the standard number of vehicles on average, the Lithuanian side clears 53% and the Latvian one 55%. The traffic situation is dire at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border checkpoint Kamenny...