Archive - 2010

MINSK, 3 November (BelTA) – Belarus is planning to launch an online map providing information on its 5,000 tourist facilities, BelTA learnt from main specialist of the National Tourism Agency Vitaly Stomma.

In his words, an agreement has been concluded with the Belgeodesiya Company which is to develop the base material....

MINSK, 2 November (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has assured that the forthcoming presidential elections in Belarus will be held in strict compliance with democratic standards. The Belarusian President made this statement as he met with the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland in Minsk on 2 November, BelTA...

MINSK, 1 November (BelTA) – Belarus has created all the necessary legal conditions for raising investments, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told reporters on 30 October, BelTA has learnt.

The journalists asked the head of state whether Belarus plans to undertake new steps to improve the investment climate and whether Belarus can...

MOGILEV, 1 November (BelTA) – German businessmen are interested in investing in the development of alternative power engineering in Belarus, said head of a delegation of German businessmen and deputy head of the Eastern Europe Department of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Wolfgang Gerstmann as he met with...

MINSK (27 October) - Introduction of some of the technical regulations in Belarus has been postponed to a later date, according to resolution No.1552 of the Council of Ministers of 22 October 2010, BelTA learnt from the Council of Ministers Office.

This decision applies to eight technical regulations. These are...

MINSK, 28 October (BelTA) – Dinamo Minsk lost their scheduled Kontinental Hockey Leaggue(KHL) game against United Hockey Club Dynamo Moscow on 27 October.

The match was played at Bobruisk-Arena, as Dinamo’s home ground is reserved for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The final score was 1-3. Meleshko scored the only goal...

MINSK, 27 October (BelTA) – A project to build a sheet steel facility at the Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) will be presented at Belarus’ Investment Forum in Frankfurt am Main on 17 November 2010, Dmitry Korchik, the chief of the general directorate for innovations and investments of the Industry...

BOROVLYANY, 26 October (BelTA) – Salaries of medics should be primarily determined by their professional skills, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as he visited the National Children Oncology and Hematology Center in Borovlyany on 26 October.

The head of state underlined that salaries for medics will not be equal across...

MINSK, 25 October (BelTA) – Ambassadors from 11 countries will present their letters of credence to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on October 25, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian head of state.

The president will receive the credentials of the chiefs of the diplomatic missions of Germany,...

MINSK, 21 October (BelTA) - Russia needs time to re-think relations with neighbors, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told the Lithuanian newspaper Litovsky Kurier in an interview that was published on 21 October.

At present Russia aims to establish partnership relations. “Okay, let’s be partners. Earlier they used to say that...