Archive - 2008

High profitability of Belarusian enterprises will help maintain the stability of the national economy in the conditions of rising energy prices, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at the session of the Council of Ministers of Belarus on July 29. In January-May 2008, the profitability of the...

422 initiative groups for the nomination of candidates to deputies of the House of Representatives have been registered in Belarus, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Nikolai Lozovik told BelTA.

The nomination of candidates through signatures collection is one of the three ways to participate in the elections....

Belarus has harvested the first million tonnes of grain, BelTA learnt from the plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs. By the morning July 29 the agricultural companies of the country harvested 1.119 million tonnes of grain.

With 366,000 tonnes, the Gomel oblast is the countrywide leader...

About 500 enterprises of the Mogilev oblast are to be reincorporated as joint stock companies by the end of 2009, chairman of the Mogilev oblast executive committee Boris Batura told a press conference on July 23.

By late 2008, all the agricultural enterprises of the oblast are to be reincorporated as...

Belarus and Venezuela are discussing new supplies of Belarusian machines, co-chairman of the Belarusian-Venezuelan intergovernmental commission Viktor Sheiman said during talks between the Belarusian and Venezuelan delegations on July 23.

In his words, in January-May 2008 enterprises of the Belarusian Industry Ministry exported $11 million worth of commodities to Venezuela. In...

A delegation of Belarusian business circles is going to visit South Korea on October 28-November 2. The Belarusian delegation will attend the 11th international exhibition of IT and electronic industry G-Fair 2008, BelTA was told in the Minsk Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Belarusian business circles will...

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is expected to arrive in Belarus on a one-day working visit on July 23, the press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus told BelTA.

Hugo Chavez and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko are expected to hold both narrow-format and extended talks, with bilateral...

Belarusian and Lithuanian military intend to work out a draft technical agreement on cooperation in military topography, geodesy and cartography between the two defence ministries, the press service of the Belarusian Defence Ministry told BelTA.

On July 22-25 Vilnius is hosting a meeting of representatives of military topography services of Belarus...

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is expected to arrive in Belarus on a working visit on July 23, the press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus told BelTA.

Hugo Chavez and Alexander Lukashenko are expected to hold both narrow-format and extended talks, with bilateral documents to be signed.

Hugo...

The third festival of the Belarusians living in Moldova “Belarus is my homeland” will be held in Chisinau in September 2008, BelTA learnt from Counselor of the Belarusian Embassy in Moldova Dmitry Gorbachev.

Participating in the festival are the National Children’s and Youth Centre of the Education Ministry of Belarus and...