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Th is year salaries of healthcare workers will not be lower than those paid last year, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told journalists during the solemn opening of Mogilev Children's Polyclinic No. 1 on 1 June, BelTA has learned. Answering the question of journalists what contributes to the retention of medical personnel, the minister said: “Salary is an important factor here. In this regard, Decree No. 131 “On financial incentives for healthcare workers” passed by the head...

2022 marks the 1030th anniversary of the founding of the Polotsk Eparchy, the first one in the Belarusian lands. In honor of the 1030th anniversary of Orthodoxy in the Belarusian lands, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will lead the Divine Liturgy in Savior and St Euphrosyne Convent in Polotsk on 5 June, BelTA learned from the Polotsk Eparchy. "The main events will be held in Savior and St Euphrosyne Convent. At 10.00 Patriarch Kirill will meet with the clergy and then will lead...

Vitebsk Oblast and Armenia will intensify cooperation in all areas, from science to trade to culture, Vitebsk Oblast Governor Aleksandr Subbotin said as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Belarus Razmik Khumaryan, BelTA has learned. The governor noted that it is extremely important to build and maintain contacts with other countries, especially given the difficult economic situation. “Cultural exchange, communication, and commercial projects are...

Belarus will be protected from cybercrime to the maximum extent, deputy chief of the central office of the Investigative Committee of Belarus Ivan Sudnikovich said in an interview to STV channel, BelTA has learned. “The government and law enforcement agencies have developed a system of measures to combat cybercrime. A set of measures, taken by all law enforcement agencies (including relationships with banks, the development of special software to block the resources and transactions,...

The spring field work has been completed on schedule, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Leonid Zayats said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs. “The spring planting is over. The main focus was on nonfood crops - flax, rapeseed, sugar beets. Forage crops were also planted. We managed to amass a significant amount of mineral fertilizers (an increase of 1.3 times over last year). About 1.3 million tonnes of organic fertilizers were used. The entire spring planting was...

Belarus is proud of the fact that a number of Belarus natives stood at the origins of Israeli statehood, Belarusian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Aleinik said at an event on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus and Israel at the House of Friendship in Minsk, BelTA has learned. "Today is a special day for Belarus and Israel - the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations," Sergei Aleinik...