In the run up to 22 June, the start of the Great Patriotic War, representatives of the Belarusian Women's Union laid flowers at the Urochische Peski memorial complex commemorating the victims of fascism in Polotsk. It is the burial site of more than 40,000 prisoners of war of the Red Army, underground fighters, partisans and civilians - prisoners of the Dulag 125 transit camp, the Gromy labor camp, city prisons.

The government of Belarus has approved the agreement with the government of the Russian Federation on mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates. The respective resolution of the Council of Ministers was published on the National Legal Internet Portal, BelTA informs. “To approve the agreement with the government of the Russian Federation on mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates that was concluded by exchanging notes on 20 December...

MOSCOW, 16 June (BelTA) – A Belarusian health center may appear on the shores of the Caspian Sea, the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia told BelTA following the meeting between Belarusian Ambassador Dmitry Krutoi and head of Russia's Dagestan Sergei Melikov on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on 16 June.  "The discussion of the tourism potential of Dagestan resulted in a concrete proposal from the head of the republic to take a...

MINSK, 15 June (BelTA) - Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI) Mikhail Myatlikov has met with Honorary Consul of Belarus in Eskisehir (Turkiye) Gurhan Albayrak, BelTA has learned.  The parties discussed prospects of cooperation of Belarusian companies with Eskisehir, a major industrial center of Turkiye, in such areas as mechanical engineering, agriculture, food processing, textile industry, construction, woodworking and others.  Possible...

MINSK, 14 June (BelTA) – On 14 June, at 11.17 a.m., the second unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was connected to the grid after the scheduled tests of the reactor were completed, BelTA learned from the press service of the Energy Ministry of Belarus.  The process of a phased increase in the capacity of the reactor is in progress.