Archive - 2008

Belarusian athletes are going to take part in the 8th International Issyk-Kul Sports Games of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The event will take place in Chopon-Ata (Kyrgyzstan) on September 5-12, BelTA learnt from press secretary of the CIS Intergovernmental Humanitarian Cooperation Fund Alexander Kalugin.

This year partaking in the Games...

Belarusian regulations governing the construction industry will be brought in line with the European documents, Minister of Construction and Architecture Alexander Seleznev said at a session focusing on the performance of design organisations and on construction industry regulatory framework.

According to the minister, this move is needed to enhance the quality...

Some 16 trading organizations and companies and also art groups and sports teams of Mogilev will take part in the fair-sale which will be held in the Russian town of Zvenigorod on September 5-7, BelTA learnt in the Mogilev City Council.

Representatives of Mogilev intend to organize a real...

A session of the committee of the chiefs of the security councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) member states opened in Yerevan on September 3. The session is attended by State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Yury Zhadobin, BelTA learnt from the Embassy...

Candidates for deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus will start their TV and radio appearances on September 3, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Nikolai Lozovik told BelTA.

In most constituencies air time will be available between 18:00 and 18:30 for TV...

On September 1, the first lesson at all schools of Belarus will be dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis, BelTA learnt from Deputy Education Minister of Belarus Kazimir Farino. He underlined that this day will become a leitmotif of festive events: contests, concerts,...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko congratulated schoolchildren, students, postgraduates and the teaching staff on Knowledge Day, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

“Belarus is by right proud of its national system of education that gives fundamental knowledge, guarantees high-quality general and professional training, brings up decent citizens of the Motherland,”...

Three teams of OSCE observers are monitoring the preparation for the parliamentary elections in the Mogilev oblast, Florance Mardirosyan, a representative of a team of the OSCE observers, noted during her meeting with Chairman of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee Boris Batura.

All in all, there are twenty such teams...

In January-June 2008, the trade between Belarus and Ukraine exceeded $2.5 billion which is almost 2 times up from the same period of 2007, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Economy Ministry.

In H1 2008, the export of Belarusian goods to Ukraine increased 2.6 times to reach...

Belarusian tennis-player Viktoria Azarenko successfully started the 2008 US Women’s Open in New York.

In the first round Viktoria defeated Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic. The next opponent of the Belarusian tennis-player is Iveta Benesova from the Czech Republic, too.

Another representative of Belarus, Olga Govortsova, is to play her...