The number of electric vehicle charging stations in Belarus has risen to 1,200, the press service of the Belarusian Energy Ministry told BelTA. According to Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich, in Q1 2024 the amount of electricity consumed by EV charging stations nearly doubled in comparison with Q1 2023 to reach 7.5 million kilowatt-hours (kWh). The minister remarked that the number of electric vehicles on Belarusian roads had increased considerably. The number of...

Belarus’ decisive actions in security have cooled the hot heads of ill-wishers abroad, Yuri Shuvalov, representative of the CSTO Secretariat said opening the roundtable to discuss the cooperation in the information and analytical sector with the focus on predicting challenges and threats to collective security on 16 May, BelTA has learned. “The CSTO is grateful to Belarus for its decisive actions that have largely cooled the heads of our ill-wishers abroad,” Yuri Shuvalov...

Seventy-five children from Syria have come to Belarus for health recuperation holidays. They will take part in the Belarusian-Syrian summer camp "From Heart to Heart" at the National Educational And Health Center Zubryonok. Belarusian Ambassador Yuri Sluka met with the young Syrians before their departure to Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Belarus has hosted children from friendly states for recuperation holidays every year...

BelTA’s Parallel Worlds project will be on display at the Business and Cultural Center of the Belarusian embassy in Moscow on 16 May. The Parallel Worlds project features 17 posters which depict the footage from the news agency's archives and documents of the Belarusian State Archive of Cine, Photo and Audio Records, which reflect two worlds: the world of the state which is creation and development and the world of the opposition that is destruction and degradation. The exhibition was...

A group of children from Donbass, who sustained mine-blast wounds, came to Belarus for recovery and rehabilitation, BelTA has learned.  The first stop in Belarus was Gomel. On the platform of the railway station, ten children aged 9-17 and their parents were greeted with a loaf of bread, gifts and warm greetings by representatives of the Aleksei Talai Charitable Foundation, public organizations, enterprises of the city of Gomel and Gomel Oblast, volunteers and a creative team. ...