Archive - 2008

Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Gert Arens and Head of the CIS Observation Mission Sergei Lebedev are to meet on the election day, September 28, BelTA learnt from the CIS Executive Committee.

The relevant agreement was reached during the meeting between Chief of the staff of the CIS...

This year, the number of the first-grade students in the Mogilev oblast will be 300 children more as against the last school year (2007/2008), head of the education department of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee Oleg Kulakovsky told reporters.

Within the recent three years the number of the...

In January-June Belarus’ foreign trade in goods and services swelled by 57.1% in comparison with the same period of last year to $39.9 billion, the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis told BelTA.

Belarus’ export went up by 59.3% to reach $19.4 billion while the import increased by 55% to $20.5 billion....

In H1 2008 Belarus traded with 171 countries. The goods were exported to 128 countries and imported from 157, BelTA was told in the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis.

In January-June Belarus’ trading partners were Russia (49% of the total trade), the Netherlands (9.2%), Ukraine (6.9%), Germany (4.5%), Poland (3.9%), Latvia...

As of August 15 2008, the gross grain harvest in Belarus has reached 6.660 million tonnes vs. 6.617 million tonnes from the same period of 2007. The agricultural enterprises of the Brest, Gomel and Grodno oblasts improved their last year’s result, too, BelTA learnt from the main plant growing department...

The gross grain harvest in Belarus has exceeded 5.2 million tonnes, BelTA learnt from the main plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

The Minsk oblast has cropped 1,239.500 tonnes, the Grodno oblast 1,035.000 tonnes. The top three also includes the Brest oblast with 943,000 tonnes. The Mogilev...

The Slavyanka company has made more than 90,000 uniforms for the new school year (the government contract was 51,300). Some 85,000 uniforms have been supplied to trading outlets, the chief of the marketing department of the company Liubov Kiseleva told BelTA.

By August 15 the company will have finished making...

The National Bank of Belarus will raise the refinancing rate by 0.25 percentage points up to 10.5% on August 13, BelTA learnt from the information department of the National Bank.

According to the Bank, this decision is aimed at raising the yield of deposits in the national currency, fostering the growth...

In January-July the Lukoml state district power plant (Vitebsk oblast) produced 8,049 billion kWh of electrical power, up 9% from the same period last year, BelTA was told at the plant.

As a rule, the capacity utilization peaks in summer and the Lukoml plant produces around 60% of the total...

Belarus will provide a firm support for China in Europe, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Hu Jintao in Beijing on August 7.

“There is no other European country that is a greater friend of China than we are. We...