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A press center will be deployed near the transport and logistics center that houses the temporary accommodation point for refugees, Belarusian First Deputy Information Minister Andrei Kuntsevich told media, BelTA has learned.

The vast majority of refugees hope for the opening of a humanitarian corridor, Grodno Oblast Governor Vladimir Karanik told the media on 20 November, BelTA has learned.

The 3rd CIS Forum of Scientists will take place in Minsk on 25-26 November, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Sergei Kilin told the media on 18 November, BelTA has learned.

Belarus Red Cross has delivered about 30 tonnes of food, 7 tonnes of water, thousands of warm clothing items and blankets to the migrants stranded on the Belarusian-Polish border for the past week, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Red Cross.

Over the past 24 hours, Belarusian medics provided medical care to 15 refugees in the border area near the Bruzgi checkpoint, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry.

A solemn ceremony to launch the 14th Belarusian Antarctic expedition took place in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), the NASB press service told BelTA.