The 2023 CIS Games will better promote the tourist potential of Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko said at the session of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Astana, Kazakhstan on 28 October, BelTA has learned. “The framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States offers an opportunity to join efforts in order to develop elite sports, to train the sports reserve and to promote a healthy way of life for the citizens of our countries. One of the ways to...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Yuri Senko took part in a Belarusian-Chinese investment forum on tourism, representatives of the Belarusian embassy in Beijing told BelTA. The forum was organized by the Belarusian embassy in association with the Sports and Tourism Ministry, the Economy Ministry of Belarus and with active support of business circles, business associations of China and the Chinese special administrative region Hong Kong. The forum was...

  Belarus has introduced a requirement for business entities engaged in retail sale of medicines to reduce prices as the Belarusian ruble strengthens against foreign currencies, Dmitry Kalistratov, head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Pricing and State Property at the Healthcare Ministry, told the media, BelTA has learned. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 380, which amended Decree No. 366 of 11 August 2005 "On the formation of prices for medicines,...

Conditions are being enabled in Belarus for digital changes in all avenues of development. Belarusian Communications and Informatization Minister Konstantin Shulgan mentioned it at sessions of the Board of Communications Administrations Heads of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications and the Coordination Council for Informatization under the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, BelTA has learned. The heads of communication...

Almost 295,000 Europeans have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. According to the State Border Committee, since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has welcomed 294,714 foreign nationals: 189,927 Lithuanian citizens, 71,014 citizens and 21,842 non-citizens of Latvia and 11,931 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted 5,559 visa-waiver arrivals:...