Work to realize the pilot manufacturing cooperation project Eurasian Electrobus has begun in the industrial block of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the commission's press service told. Representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission and the relevant government agencies of the Eurasian Economic Union countries participated in consultations on 2 September. They decided in favor of setting up a special working group as a result. It will include representatives of the government...

Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova has convened a conference to discuss the operation of OAO MotoVeloZavod with parties concerned, has learned. Natalya Kochanova remarked that the head of state had visited the enterprise not so long before. Even before that during a visit to the same enterprise the Minsk City Executive Committee had been instructed to clean up the area, start using vacant premises, and ensure the effective...

The school built by Belarusian specialists will open in the city of Medyn, Kaluga Oblast of Russia on 1 September, learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. The opening ceremony will be attended by a Belarusian delegation headed by Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi, Kaluga Oblast Governor Vladislav Shapsha, and Anatoly Artamonov, a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly from Kaluga Oblast. The new school is designed for 1,000...

A socially responsible civil society should be the bulwark of the state, Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko said at a government conference hosted by the president to discuss the draft laws on civil society, political parties and other public associations in Minsk on 30 August, has learned. "The government should acknowledge the activity of people, build appropriate work with them in order to have support in the form of a socially responsible civil society,"...

MINSK, 30 August – Belarus and Russia plan to expand cooperation in import substitution in the energy sector, said Belarusian Deputy Energy Minister Olga Prudnikova, learned from the press service of the ministry. Bilateral cooperation in import substitution is carried out within the framework of the relevant working group with the participation of representatives of the Energy Ministry. “The list of import-substituting products received from the Russian side is currently...