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Together for a Strong and Prosperous Belarus! Forum has brought together 350 students from Belarus and Russia, BelTA learned from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. “Grodno is hosting the final events of the civil patriotic marathon “Together for a Strong and Prosperous Belarus. Taking part in it are about 350 representatives from 18 higher educational institutions and colleges of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. The project kicked off in 2015 as a...

In BelTA's YouTube project "After the Fact:Lukashenko's Decisions”, Irina Voronovich, Director of the Tourism Department at the Sport and Tourism Ministry, spoke about the ways of opening an agro & eco farmstead and the things that need to be taken into account. “This kind of activity is quite simple because there are preferential terms. This is not an entrepreneurial activity, which makes registration easier. What is important is desire and land that will be used for its...

We are planning to put the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelNPP) into commercial operation by the end of the year, Olga Lugovskaya, the head of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Department at the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry (Gosatomnadzor), said in an interview with the STV channel on 30 April, BelTA has learned. "At the moment, the unit is in the state of commissioning. We are carrying out a sequence of actions towards its commercial use. Nuclear fuel has...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Colombia Nikolai Ovsyanko has held a meeting with Minister of Culture Jorge Zorro, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The meeting took place in Bogota on 27 April. The parties discussed the current state and opportunities for intensifying Belarusian-Colombian cooperation in culture, as well as the schedule of events for the near future.

Trade between Belarus and Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast has been consistently high, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said as he met with Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuyvashev, BelTA has learned. "Mutual trade has been consistently high and growing. In 2021 it amounted to about $500 million, last year it was almost $750 million. A Belarusian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko is on a working visit to three Russian regions:...

In 2023 over Br150 million is supposed to be spent on the projects stipulated by the government program on innovation-driven development and assigned to the Industry Ministry, Belarusian Industry Minister Aleksandr Rogozhnik told BelTA in an interview. Aleksandr Rogozhnik said: “As many as 21 innovative projects assigned to the Industry Ministry are included in the government program on innovation-driven development. There are plans to spend over Br150 million on realizing...