A new potash mine in Belarus will be built by 2021, BelTA learned from the Belarusian PR agency AGT. Boreholes will be drilled and freezing operations will start at premises of the future Nezhinsky mining and processing factory in October. The potash mine is supposed to be ready by 2021. Mine shafts will be drilled using shaft boring roadheaders. Construction workers are about to finish drilling boreholes about 160m below the surface in order to begin freezing the rock. With this in...

A package of documents on the promotion of entrepreneurship in Belarus will be signed in the near future, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Nikolai Snopkov told BelTA as he met with citizens at the Lyakhovichi District Executive Committee (Brest Oblast). "The decree to develop information and communications technologies (the so-called 'IT decree') will be submitted for signature to the Belarus president in the near future. The whole package of documents on the promotion...

A concept for the integrated management of the Belarusian state border is supposed to be adopted by May 2018, representatives of the State Border Committee of Belarus told BelTA. The first session of the working group in charge of putting together the concept took place at premises of the State Border Committee of Belarus the day before. Experts of the Belarusian border service and the customs service discussed organizational aspects and practical aspects of joint work on the project....

Belarus expects a record high colza harvest this year, Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats said in an interview to Belarus One TV channel, BelTA has learned. According to the minister, 2017 was a difficult year for the agrarians due to unfavorable weather conditions. At the same time, this year's harvest is higher than the previous one. "It is true both about grain and colza. This year we expect a record high crop of colza," he stressed. Some 260,000 tonnes of colza was...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko presented state awards to the best workers of education on 29 August, BelTA has learned. Thirty-seven teachers from various regions of Belarus received state awards and honorary titles in recognition of the many-year productive work, a big personal contribution to the development of the education system, training and upbringing of the younger generation, organization of recuperation for children, training of teachers and highly qualified...