Belarus has drafted its social and economic development forecast for 2019 and the main macroeconomic guidelines through 2021, BelTA learned from the website of the Belarusian Economy Ministry. On 22 May the Economy Ministry hosted a meeting of the ministerial working group chaired by Belarus' First Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Matyushevsky. The working group met to decide on Belarus' social and economic development forecast for 2019. Opening the meeting Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky...

The international forum on information and communication technologies TIBO 2018 is opening in Minsk on 14 May, BelTA has learnt. The opening ceremony will take place at Minsk Arena. It will be followed by a plenary session for government officials, heads of international organizations and leading information and communication companies who will discuss global practices of digital transformation, forecasts and prospects of modern technologies. The expo will start working on 15 May. The...

Belarus Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov presented the state awards to the distinguished Belarusians in a ceremony in the Palace of Republic in Minsk on 25 April, BelTA has learned. The awards were given to 112 people working in agriculture, forestry, science, tax service and mass media. Andrei Kobyakov noted that the workers of the agricultural industry contribute a lot to the development of economy and added that Belarus is ranked in the first group of countries with a high level of...

Belarus is ranked 41st on the world's strongest armies list, BelTA learned from the Global Firepower analytics company website. The Belarusian army was ranked 49th in 2017. In this year's list of the world's strongest armies Belarus is ranked right behind Romania (40th) and ahead of Peru (42nd). The U.S. army is deemed the world's strongest. It is followed by Russia (2nd) and China (3rd). Global Firepower's World's Military Strength Ranking is compiled using 55 parameters and...

The major goal of the new law on mass media is to protect people from destructive information, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said during a meeting with the heads of major state mass media outlets, BelTA has learned. Speaking about the main tasks of mass media outlets, the head of state noted that some of them are described in the new law on media. They include the development of the domestic TV content. According to Alexander Lukashenko, the new law has been designed to "protect...