The third and final stage of a complex tactical exercise for the Grodno branch of the Belarusian border service took place in the small border traffic checkpoint Porechye on 12 August, representatives of the State Border Committee of Belarus told BelTA.

Belarus and Russia will expand the mutual practice of using the national payment systems Mir and Belkart, representatives of the Standing Committee of the Union State of Belarus and Russia told BelTA after a session of the High-Level Group of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia on 9 August.

The second stage of a tactical exercise involving military personnel of the Western Operational Command took place in the exercise area Gozhsky.

The plans were to make Belarus and Ukraine members of NATO, Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei in the fourth episode of the documentaries titled as Belarus Against Color Revolution aired by the Belarusian TV channel STV, BelTA has learned.

Upon instructions of the head of state the security of the state border of the Republic of Belarus has been enhanced, BelTA learned from Anton Bychkovsky, spokesman of the State Border Committee of Belarus.