“It used to be considered normal for children to work on collective farm fields during the holidays, and after school to help their mothers on farms,” says Alla. - Of course, it was harder before, all the work was manual. These are now milk pipelines, conveyors, and tractors. But still, the work of a machine milking operator is a responsible one that does not tolerate negligence. Having trained as a seamstress, Alla went to work in agriculture for a number of reasons. She...

The Russian Ministry of Health has registered the Sputnik Light vaccine against coronavirus infection with an updated antigenic composition. The department's press service reported this, TASS reports. It is noted that the updated vaccine underwent clinical trials, during which it showed a favorable safety and immunogenicity profile, and a low incidence of significant side effects.  The press service added that state quality control of the first drugs in the laboratories of...

At the 32nd International Food Exhibition "Peterfood-2023" in St. Petersburg, the staff of the Pastovsky Dairy Plant presented its products. In particular, suppliers presented a novelty of the year - dry cheese "Cheeseballs". This product - cheese balls with red onions with a mass fraction of fat in dry matter of 43% - was developed in 2022, and it was launched into mass production. Juries and participants of the exhibition evaluated the cheese balls according to their merits. As a...

On 7-8 December, a delegation of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry headed by Minister Vadim Sinyavsky will pay a working visit to the Republic of Cuba at the invitation of Chief of Cuba's Civil Defense National Staff Division General Ramón Pardo Guerra, BelTA learned from the Emergencies Ministry.

The visit is the next step in the development of Belarusian-Cuban cooperation in the field of prevention and response to emergency situations after the Belarusian side handed over humanitarian aid to Cuba to overcome the consequences of the explosion at the oil depot in the port of Matanzas in November 2023, the ministry informed.

"In August 2022, as a result of a strong fire at an oil storage facility, 16 people were killed, 130 were injured. The man-made disaster was the largest in the history of Cuba. On the instructions by the Belarusian president, the Emergencies Ministry sent a humanitarian cargo by sea. It included food and medicines worth more than Br600,000," the ministry said.

It was the second time that Belarus had provided friendly support to Cuba. In February 2022, Belarus lent a helping hand to Cuba in overcoming the crisis caused by the tightening of U.S. economic sanctions. Then Belarus delivered a cargo consisting of medicines and food worth more than Br1 million.

The talks in Havana are expected to focus on cooperation in the protection of the population and territories from emergency situations, personnel training, material and technical support for fire rescue teams, and humanitarian response.

The Belarusian Emergencies Ministry is set to sign two agreements on cooperation with Cuba's National Civil Defense Staff and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Vadim Sinyavsky will also take part in the 11th international congress on natural disasters and will make a report on the priority areas of Belarus' state policy in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergencies and reducing the risk of their occurrence.

Belarus' Consul General in Shanghai Andrei Andreyev and Consul Konstantin Golovko represented Belarus at the SCO's Traditional Medicine Forum in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, BelTA learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Shanghai. The Belarusian diplomats took part in the forum and discussed Belarus-China cooperation with the leadership of Jiangxi Province and the city of Nanchang. In an interview on a regional TV channel, Andrei Andreyev emphasized that Belarusians are...