MINSK, 12 September – Over 230,000 foreigners have visited Belarus as part of the visa-free travel program, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Over 230,000 foreigners have availed themselves of the opportunities the Belarusian visa-free travel program offers. As many as 149,413 Lithuania citizens, 58,945 citizens and 17,979 non-citizens of Latvia have come to Belarus since 15 April thanks to the visa waiver. Apart from that, about 7,000 citizens of Poland have...

MINSK, 9 September – More than 51,000 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in Belarus since 24 February, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. According to the committee, Belarus admitted 51,514 citizens of Ukraine. 15,876 Ukrainians came to Belarus directly from Ukraine, 29,155 arrived in Belarus via Poland, 5,505 via Lithuania and 978 via Latvia.

MINSK, 8 September – Over 6.554 million people in Belarus have got the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine, of them over 6.44 million have completed the vaccination process, learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry. Over 892,500 people completed the vaccination regimen in Brest Oblast, over 790,700 in Vitebsk Oblast, over 976,000 in Gomel Oblast, over 693,800 in Grodno Oblast, over 987,100 in Minsk Oblast, over 692,000 in Mogilev Oblast, and over 1.3...

MOSCOW, 7 September – Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia have suggested including new artistic and educational projects into the budget of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the assembly's press service told after a session of the Culture, Science, and Education Commission held in Danilov Monastery in Moscow on 7 September. Members of the Culture, Science, and Education Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of...

MINSK, 6 September – Belarusian banks will connect to the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). It is China's alternative to the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system, learned from First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Nikolai Snopkov. Nikolai Snopkov remarked that getting Belarusian banks to connect to China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System will be an important part of Belarus-China cooperation. Belarusbank will be the first...

MINSK, 5 September – ZAO Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation will make vitamins of the C and B groups in the future. The relevant agreement has been reached with the People's Republic of China, Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Igor Brylo told the On Point project on YouTube channel. According to Igor Brylo, the Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation is a unique project. It uses grain to make not only the compound animal feed that standard grain processing...