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The 10th edition of the international economic forum Innovations. Investments. Prospects will take place in Vitebsk on 15-16 July, BelTA learned from Director of the Vitebsk Oblast Marketing Center Irina Makarenko. The forum is a traditional event to present the potential of enterprises and districts of Vitebsk Oblast. It is no coincidence that this year the Free Economic Zone Vitebsk has been chosen as the venue of the main economic event of the region for the first time. It is one of...

The national air carrier Belavia will no longer require passengers flying from Minsk to Tashkent and back to present negative results of the PCR test for COVID-19 and other COVID-19 documents starting from 10 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the air carrier. Belavia's decision came after Uzbekistan lifted entry restrictions related to COVID-19. Belavia flies from Minsk to Tashkent on Tuesdays and Fridays and back on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Belarus and the Chuvashia Republic of the Russian Federation intend to share experience of realization of digital projects, BelTA learned from Belarusian First Deputy Communications and Informatization Minister Pavel Tkach. Belarusian Communications and Informatization Minister Konstantin Shulgan and Minister of Digital Development, Information Policy, and Mass Communications of Chuvashia Kristina Mainina discussed cooperation options. Kristina Mainina said: “We have identical ways...

The 29th session of the consultative council of heads of consular services of the CIS member states took place on 7 June in the form of a videoconference, BelTA has learned. Delegations of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan took part in the session. A delegation from Turkmenistan was present as an observer. The Belarusian delegation was led by Andrei Kozhan, Head of the Central Consular Office of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs....

On 7 June a reinforced battalion of the 103rd Vitebsk Independent Guards Airborne Brigade of the Special Operations Forces Command teamed up with the border service to practice crossing a water obstacle – the Sozh River – while having to deal with diversionary units of the simulated enemy.

The child and family welfare system in Belarus is clear and consistent, Belarus' Labor and Social Security Minister Irina Kostevich said on the air of the ONT TV channel, BelTA informs. “The child welfare system (which can be referred to as family welfare system) has a long history,” said Irina Kostevich. “Today it is multifaceted and smooth and includes financial support, benefits and guarantees that are provided to a child from birth to adulthood. This system has been constantly...