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On 11 August Minsk bid farewell to the former head of the BSSR Nikolai Slyunkov in a ceremony at the Central House of Officers. Nikolai Slyunkov headed Minsk Tractor Plant from 1965 to 1972. Then he held the post of First Secretary of the Minsk City Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist...

Head of the International Military Cooperation Department, Aide for International Military Cooperation to the Belarusian Defense Minister, Colonel Valery Revenko met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cuba to Belarus Santiago Perez Benitez on 10 August, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. The meeting also included the accreditation of Colonel Monica Milian Gomez, military, naval and air attache to the Embassy of Cuba in Russia with concurrent...

About 200 writers will attend the 29th edition of the Belarusian Written language Day in Dobrush on 3-4 September, the honorary chairman of the Union of Writers of Belarus, People's Writer of Belarus Nikolai Cherginets said at a press conference, has learned. "This holiday is a kind of exam for writers. They will present their works to the audience. This year's event will bring more writers than usual: about 200 people. I would like to thank the Gomel regional branch of the Union of...

The Healthcare Ministry has decided to expand the vaccination coverage and include children ages five years and older into the COVID-19 vaccination program, Belarusian Deputy Healthcare Minister, Chief Sanitary Inspector Aleksandr Tarasenko said, has learned. “We have amended our vaccination strategy to cover more age groups. Earlier we vaccinated children ages 12 years and older, however starting from this week we will vaccinate children who are at least five years old. They will...

Belarus is considering easing residence permit rules for citizens of the Baltic states and Poland, learned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. More than 164,000 people have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver program for citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland that was launched in April. The ministry noted an increase in the number of permanent residence permit applications, especially from the foreigners with Belarusian roots. These are people who used to have...

MINSK, 5 August - Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are set to increase the volume of rail container traffic to China. This matter was discussed during the web-based negotiations between the chiefs of the rail administrations of the three countries: Vladimir Morozov (Belarus), Oleg Belozerov (Russia) and Nurlan Sauranbayev (Kazakhstan), learned from the press center of Belarusian Railways. Vladimir Morozov and Oleg Belozerov noted a significant increase in the number of applications...