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The 13th meeting of the Coordinating Council for Emergencies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states with the participation of the emergencies ministers of the CSTO member states took place in Moscow on 18 August. Belarusian Emergencies Minister Vadim Sinyavsky attended the meeting as well, learned from the press service of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry. The event was also attended by Emergencies Minister of Armenia Armen Pambukhchyan, Emergencies...

A Belarusian team won gold during the shooting stage of the Military Rally competition held as part of the International Army Games 2022, learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. Sergeant Vadim Kravchenko and Guards Private Kirill Yanushkevich successfully accomplished their tasks during the shooting stage while driving a Tiger armored vehicle. The two soldiers hit targets with machine gun fire while driving the Tiger vehicle. They had to shoot during brief stops at popup...

CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev and Director of the Europe and Central Asia Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ariane Bauer exchanged views on the humanitarian situation in the CSTO areas of responsibility and border areas in the context of growing international tensions at a meeting in Moscow, learned from the CSTO press service. "The parties reaffirmed commitment to developing cooperation between the CSTO and the ICRC in key areas of international...

In order to encourage more Indian tourists to visit Belarus it is necessary to shoot a Bollywood movie here, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Republic of Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha said answering journalists' questions, has learned. The ambassador emphasized that Belarus and India have everything in place to ramp up mutual tourist traffic. Naturally, the COVID-19 pandemic delivered a serious blow to the travel industry, but even in pre-COVID...

As of 1 June 2022, a total of 116 470 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, including 82,500 deposit accounts at the total amount of $825 million and 33,900 deposit accounts at the total amount of Br739 million, learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry. A total of 58,53 families applied for permission to use family capital ahead of schedule. Of them, 50,488 applied to use the money to improve housing conditions,...

More than 45,000 Ukrainian nationals arrived in Belarus since February, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. “From 6.00 on 24 February to 6.00 on 12 August, Belarus admitted 45,125 citizens of Ukraine,” the committee said. Almost 30,000 of them arrived in Belarus via the EU countries.