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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko ordered the Council of Ministers and the relevant governmental bodies to conduct balanced economic policy towards businessmen avoiding social complications and political rush, Belarusian Head of State said at a session highlighting the issues of business regulation.

“Blaming the global financial crisis the government suggests postponing...

There are plans to hold the first heart transplantation in Belarus in 2009, Healthcare Minister of Belarus Vasily Zharko told a press conference on December 23.

According to him, Belarus is technically ready to perform such an operation. Belarusian surgeons were trained in the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland and the Baltic...

Belarus’ nuclear power plant will be built at the Ostrovetskaya site in the Grodno oblast. The State Commission for Belarus’ Nuclear Power Plant Location has taken the relevant decision, BelTA learnt from Lyudmila Zenkovich, spokesman for the Energy Ministry of Belarus.

The choice was made after the examination of the Ostrovetskaya,...

On December 19 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed decree No 689 “Measures to perfect auditing and supervisory activities in the Republic of Belarus”. The press service of the President told BelTA, at present major efforts are put into liberalising all areas of business in order to fulfil the instruction...

The programme “Assistance for voluntary repatriation of migrants to the home country” will be continued in Belarus till May 2009. Implemented by the European Union, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration, the programme was initially supposed to end on December 31, 2008, Yuri...

The Council of Ministers of Belarus issued Resolution No1942 on December 16, 2008 to impose new utility tariffs, BelTA learnt from the Council of Ministers’ Office.

The tariff on engineering service of residential houses will be up 11.8% as compared to the effective tariff. The tariffs on heat energy...

Mogilevkhimvolokno has produced a pilot lot of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel fuel) from rapeseed oil, BelTA learnt from chief engineer of the enterprise Alexander Medvedev.

“The production of the pilot lot of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) has shown that we can launch the commercial production of biofuel provided the...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has commissioned local authorities with the task to use the potential of gas service installation as efficiently as possible, BelTA has learnt.

At the ceremony of launching the natural gas supply in Berezino, the Head of State said that local authorities have to think about the...

Berezino was the last out of 118 regional centres of Belarus where the natural gas service was installed. Attending the ceremony of launching the natural gas supply network was President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, BelTA informs.

The natural gas service was first provided in 1960 when the gas main Dashava-Minsk was...

Belarus advocates the new architecture of European security taking into account the interests of the state, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during a session of the Security Council on December 15.

The Head of State said that Belarus remains committed to the goals and ideas of the universal nuclear disarmament,...