Belarus has agreed on large supplies of machinery to Nicaragua following the visit of a delegation led by Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Aleksandr Yegorov to that country, BelTA has learned. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua hosted a final meeting with the Belarusian delegation and signed the documents. Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo, Nicaragua's Presidential Adviser on Investment, Trade and International Cooperation, expressed...

MINSK, 10 April (BelTA) –  More than 4,000 highly qualified employees and over 20 scientific and industrial organizations work in Belarus' space industry, Chief Academic Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vasily Gursky said at a press conference timed to World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, BelTA has learned. “We can say that our space program is the result of Belarus-Russia fruitful cooperation and friendship between our peoples. Today we can...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised the reliability of Belarusian equipment for machine tools, TASS reports. This matter was discussed during Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov. The head of the region mentioned that they have plans to create a machine tool cluster in the republic. Some arrangements have already been made and design work is getting started. “Around the first half of 2026, we will cast frames for the machines...

Samara will host the CIS Forum of Libraries "Library is a Volunteer Movement Resource Center" on 25-28 June, BelTA learned from the Department for Political, Humanitarian and Social Welfare Cooperation at the CIS Executive Committee. Library experts and leaders of volunteer associations from all regions of Russia and the CIS countries are invited to participate in the forum. The forum, as one of the significant events of the Year of the Volunteer Movement announced in the CIS in...

Representatives of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have confirmed that the Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and the Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who have just returned from orbit, will fly to Moscow today, a BelTA journalist reports from Roscosmos’ mission control center. “The reentry module of the crew transfer vehicle Soyuz MS-24 made a routine landing in the designated area of Kazakhstan. The crew feels well and will arrive at the Chkalovsky airfield this...