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Over 158,000 foreign nationals have visited Belarus without visas, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. As of 00:00 on 1 August, 158,509 citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland took advantage of Belarus' visa waiver program. “Since 15 April when Belarus reopened border for visa waiver arrivals, 102,577 citizens of Lithuania, 12,728 non-citizens and 40,980 citizens of Latvia have visited Belarus. Since 1 July, when a visa waiver program for Poland was launched,...

MINSK, 1 August – Belarus' harvest has reached 1,659,500 tonnes of grain, learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 1 August, grain and leguminous crops (excluding maize, buckwheat and millet) were harvested from 20.4% of the planned area (435,800 hectares). Harvesting was completed on 41.2% of the area (142,700 hectares) in Brest Oblast, 4.91% (17,800 hectares) in Vitebsk Oblast, 30.8% (106,900 hectares) in Gomel Oblast, 19.4% (59,200 hectares) in Grodno...

MINSK, 29 July – Belarus has every right to show the truth to the world, and it once again declares the inadmissibility of the findings of the ICAO report on the incident involving the Ryanair flight FR4978 and will consistently and persistently prove its innocence, Head of the Central Office of Multilateral Diplomacy of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Irina Velichko told. At the OSCE Permanent Council meeting on 28 July the Delegation of Belarus to the OSCE responded...

MINSK, 27 July – Financing of the state investment program has been augmented by more than 50%, First Deputy Economy Minister Yuri Chebotar said commenting on Decree No. 257 signed by the head of state to clarify the 2022 state investment program, has learned. “In 2022 we will allocate more than Br357 million extra to implement the state investment program. Funds will be spent to build and renovate 145 facilities, like major roads and bridges, rental housing, deferrization...

MINSK, 27 July – Ilya Karoza from Latvia who made an interview with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko during the International Arts Festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk stayed in Belarus, Latvian blogger Gloria Grevtsova said on TikTok, informs. “The children's team will be dismissed. The lease agreement has already been terminated. The teenage boy who interviewed Lukashenko has stayed in Belarus. His mother is also going there. The team will cease its work. More than...

MINSK, 26 July – The agricultural output in 2022 should not be smaller than that in 2021, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at a conference to discuss progress in the harvest campaign on 26 July, has learned. “The prime minister, the agriculture minister and the governors bear a personal responsibility for that,” the Belarusian leader warned. Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that the first half of the year saw a slight decline in agricultural output. “This is not...