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Roaming charges for incoming calls will be canceled in the territory of the Belarus-Russia Union State on 1 April, the press service of the Russian government said following the meeting of the High-Level Group under the Union State Council of Ministers on 23 March, BelTA informs. “Work continued to implement the action plan to make communication services in the Union State more convenient,” the government of the Russian Federation noted. “The participants of the meeting...

Another 117 places of mass execution were identified in Belarus in 2022, Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told journalists at the Khatyn memorial complex on 22 March, BelTA has learned. “This place is sacred to all of us; it embodies the tragedy that took place here during the Great Patriotic War. We are actively investigating the facts of the genocide, and every day more and more information is coming to the surface. Thus, a group of specialists of the Prosecutor General's...

Every citizen of Belarus and guests to the of the country should know what price Belarus paid during the Great Patriotic War, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko told the media in the Khatyn memorial complex, BelTA has learned. "Every person, who have been to Khatyn, who have heard the the bells ringing here, will forever remember the tragic events that took place on our land, the people who died here. So that we could enjoy life, develop the country, study, work, make...

Chairman of the Standing Commission on Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Council of the Republic Sergei Rachkov took part in a meeting of the Eurasia Group coordinating joint action of the parliamentary delegation of the CIS member state on the sidelines od the 144th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary in Nusa Dua, Indonesia on 20 March, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of Belarusian Parliament. The meeting was presided by Aigul Kuspan, the...

Russia has decided to remove all travel restrictions for Belarusian nationals, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin said, BelTA informs. “At midnight on 18 March Moscow time, all restrictions on the movement of citizens within the Union State of Russia and Belarus will be lifted,” Mikhail Mishustin said at a government meeting on 17 March. “We talked about it with Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko in Moscow at the beginning of the week and got the go-ahead...

Aleksei Yudenkov from Mogilev won the individual competition at the 18th Ice Fishing World Championship which was held in Siauliai, Lithuania in February. Photos by Oleg Foinitsky