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Olympic champion Ivan Litvinovich returns home from Tokyo Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Ivan Litvinovich and the Belarusian national trampoline team have returned to Minsk. Ivan Litvinovich's gold in trampoline became the first medal won by Team Belarus in Tokyo. Young students of Vitebsk Children's and Youth Sports School of Olympic Reserve No. 1 will get support thanks to the athlete's success. The Tokyo Games champion has decided to allocate Br20,000 to the sports school where future...

Belarusian school students clinched two medals at the International Economics Olympiad, BelTA learned from the press service of the university. Silver went to Denis Rabchuk (Gymnasium No.1, Brest). Ilya Yakimuk (Brest Pushkin Lyceum No.1) claimed bronze. The Belarusian team also included Aleksei Drozdov (Mogilev Oblast State Lyceum No. 3), Yelizaveta Pranovich and Anastasiya Shaveiko (BSU Lyceum, Minsk). The students won the right to represent the national team in the international...

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia is increasing the number of Minsk-Moscow-Minsk flights from 1 August, BelTA learned from Belavia's website. “The number of flights will rise from 10 to 20 a week. Belavia will perform 10 flights to Domodedovo Airport and 10 – to Sheremetyevo Airport,” the website reads. Passengers are highly recommended to learn about the country's entry rules before purchasing tickets. Written by: belta.by

Around 200 foreign nationals have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry. "For the first several days since the decree was enacted, Belarus has vaccinated citizens of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Russia on a paid basis," the press service said. In accordance with the president's decree No. 251 of 1 July 2021, Belarus waived visa requirements for entry, temporary stay and departure...

The Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR) moved 307 positions up and is among the top 10% of the world's best universities, ranking 3279th in the latest edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, BelTA learned from BSUIR press service. The ranking includes more than 31,000 universities from all over the world, including 57 Belarusian ones. As for other international rankings, BSUIR is in top three best Belarusian universities in the...

Belarus is the only one of the post-Soviet republics that has preserved high-level scientific expertise, Director of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center Mikhail Kovalchuk said during a meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk on 27 July, BelTA has learned. "I would like to congratulate you. You are the only country from among the post-Soviet republics that has preserved scientific expertise," Mikhail Kovalchuk said. “I should tell you, to the credit...