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A trading house of Belarusian manufacturers will open in Moscow Oblast, Russia on 9 December, BelTA learned from the Telegram channel of the Belarusian light industry concern Bellegprom. “BELRU MARKET will open its doors in Solnechnogorsk District of Moscow Oblast. The 400 square meters store will display more than 3,000 types of products from a dozen Belarusian companies, including Dobrush Porcelain Factory, Glassworks Neman, Orsha Linen Mill, Baranovichi Cotton Production...

Consul General of Belarus in Shanghai Andrei Andreev took part in the opening of the SCO seminar on rural development and poverty alleviation on 5 December, BelTA learned from the Belarusian foreign mission in Shanghai. Andrey Andreev stressed that efforts to improve the well-being of people, to promote social justice and sustainable socio-economic development of SCO members and candidate countries are critically important for confronting the challenges facing the organization. In...

  Relations between Tehran and Minsk are at their peak today, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Saeed Yari said in an interview to ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned. The ambassador recalled that Iran has been under sanctions for more than 40 years. “The collective West uses sanctions as a tool to destroy economies. And this is a flagrant violation of international norms,” Saeed Yari said. According to him, the sanctions are a serious test for the...

Aerial units of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry have returned to Belarus from Türkiye where they had provided assistance with fighting fires, the ministry told BelTA. Mi-8 helicopters landed at the Lipki airfield. While in Türkiye they rendered assistance with fighting fires in mountainous areas. They departed from the Turkish airport Trabzon and had to make stopovers in Mineralnyye Vody, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Kaluga, and Vitebsk. Deputy Emergencies Minister Igor Bolotov...

The minimum wage in Belarus will increase by 14.7% on 1 January, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a meeting with deputies of the House of Representatives and members of the Council of the Republic in the Oval Hall, BelTA has learned. “Since the beginning of the year, the monthly minimum wage has been increased by a total of 15.6%, and on 1 January it will rise by another 14.7% to amount to Br554. The government will formalize this decision in the near future,” Roman...

Belarus and China plan to implement 35 science and technology projects by 2024, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology Sergei Shlychkov told journalists at the fourth meeting of the commission on sci-tech cooperation of the Belarus-China intergovernmental committee on cooperation, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee for Science and Technology. Sergei Shlychkov noted that the two countries should approved these projects and be genuinely...