Former head of a regional branch of the opposition party Narodnaya Gromada Olga Tishkevich told the ONT TV channel about feuds in the ranks of the Belarusian opposition, BelTA has learned. The ONT TV channel remarked that Narodnaya Gromada is an unregistered political organization that is not held in high esteem among the opposition, including due to mistrust towards its leader Nikolai Statkevich. The organization heavily relies on grants from foreign donors. In 2011 Nikolai...

Since 1 January of this year, a total of 76,280 nationals of Ukraine have entered Belarus, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee. According to the committee, 32 of them arrived from the territory of Ukraine, 60,290 people came in transit through Poland, 14,898 through Lithuania, and 1,060 through Latvia. Since 24 February 2022, a total of 222,772 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in Belarus: 15,950 people came directly from Ukraine, 158,078 Ukrainian citizens came in...

Enterprises affiliated with the Industry Ministry of Belarus posted a production growth of more than 4% in H1 2024, First Deputy Industry Minister Aleksandr Ogorodnikov said at a meeting of the board of the Industry Ministry to discuss the ministry's performance in January-June 2024, BelTA learned from the press service of the Industry Ministry. Aleksandr Ogorodnikov said that the Industry Ministry is on track to meet almost all the targets set by the government for the first half of...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is inspecting harvesting progress at the Voskhod agricultural enterprise on 24 July, BelTA has learned. Following the recent conference where harvesting issues were discussed in detail, the president is studying the situation on the ground. The Voskhod state enterprise is located in the suburbs of Minsk. This is a multi-business company that specializes in the production of milk, cattle meat, feed, potatoes, grains, rapeseed, corn,...

Belarus and Russia’s Amur Oblast will work to develop exchange trade in agricultural products, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE). Following the visit of business representatives from Amur Oblast to the BUCE, the parties outlined priority areas for the development of exchange trade between Belarus and the Russian region. According to the parties, taking into account the characteristics of the economies of Belarus and Amur Oblast,...