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MINSK, 10 August (BelTA) – Belarusian agricultural companies have already harvested over 6 million tonnes of grain, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

As of 9 August, there were threshed 6,173,900 grain, with the average yield of 30.2 centners per hectare. The highest crop yield was registered in Grodno...

VILNIUS, 9 August (BelTA) – The first international music and sports festival, Belarusian Roots, opened in Lithuania’s Palanga on 9 August, BelTA has learnt.

The organizer of the festival, the Belarusian Center of Tourism and Recreation in Lithuania, selected ten young performers from Belarus, Lithuania and Russia. Such festivals are a...

MINSK, 6 August (BelTA) – Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky met with representatives of Fishman Group. “I initiated this meeting to urge you to speed up the IT-Park project,” Sergei Sidorsky said. Belarus announced an open tender to construct the IT-Park in 2008 and Fishman Group showed willingness to...

MINSK, 6 August (BelTA) – In a meeting with Education Minister Alexander Radkov on 5 August, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko repeated his demands to increase salaries to education and medical workers, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

The issue regarding a pay rise for teachers and medical workers is being...

MINSK, 5 August (BelTA) – Belarusian scientists plan to implement new joint agricultural projects with Venezuela, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian-Venezuelan center for sci-tech cooperation of the BNTU Politekhnik technological cluster.

The two sides are discussing possible contracts including in the production of drugs to diagnose tuberculosis among animals, development and...

MINSK, 4 August (BelTA) – So far Belarus is not planning to create a joint venture with Russia to export the electricity to be produced by the future nuclear power plant (NPP), First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko told reporters.

“We are not working on this project today. There...

MINSK, 4 August (BelTA) – Belarusian government agencies must do their outmost to prevent fires in the country, the press service of the Belarusian head of state quoted Alexander Lukashenko as saying on 4 August.

The government, governors, the Emergencies Ministry, the Interior Ministry and other government agencies have been instructed...

MINSK, 3 August (BelTA) – Belarus plans to open its cultural centers abroad. It is envisaged in an action plan of initiatives offered by the participants of the 5th Congress of the Belarusians of the World that was held in Minsk last year, BelTA learnt from the Culture Ministry of...

MINSK, 2 August (BelTA) – Belarus is interested in using Chinese innovative technologies to create new high-tech enterprises in Belarus, Igor Voitov, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, told a session of the working commission for scientific and technical cooperation between Belarus and the Chinese province of...

MINSK, 2 August (BelTA) – Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov has been appointed Representative of Belarus in the Council of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). The relevant decision is contained in Council of Ministers Resolution No 1121 of July 28, 2010.

Economy Minister Nikolai Snopkov has been assigned as...