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...

Planting in Belarus is to be completed by 9 May, Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Vladimir Grakun said at a press conference, BelTA has learned. Vladimir Grakun specified that agricultural workers will try to complete the spring sowing of early grain and leguminous crops within the next seven days, and the southern regions will finish this work by the end of the week. After that, the sowing of spring rapeseed and corn will begin. Planting of flax and sugar beets has already...

The training of top-qualification personnel plays the key role in forming the manufacturing potential, the economic potential, the intellectual potential, and the spiritual potential of Belarus. The country’s Prosecutor General Andrei Shved made the statement during an international science and practice roundtable session on topical matters concerning the legal regulation and law enforcement aspects in the preparation and defense of qualifying research papers (dissertations) at...