A single center for demonstration, sale and maintenance of Belarusian machines has been set up in Primorye Territory of Russia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. On 11 September, the center was visited by Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoi, who arrived in Vladivostok at the head of the Belarusian delegation to the Eastern Economic Forum. "Ambassador Dmitry Krutoi inspected the progress in the investment project to create a single...

 Belarus and Russia are working on new import-substitution projects, Head of the Economy and Sectoral Programs Department of the Standing Committee of the Belarus-Russia Union State Svetlana Ivanova said at the International Forum of Economic Cooperation held on 8 September to mark Minsk's 956th anniversary, BelTA has learned. Import substitution is one of the topics of the Union State construction, Svetlana Ivanova said. “Belarus and Russia have a lot of technological...

Belarus is taking part in the international tourism forum “A new stage of cooperation between the CIS member states in the field of tourism” that is taking place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 7-8 September, BelTA learned from the National Tourism Agency. The forum has brought together tourism industry professionals from the CIS countries: heads of tourism administrations, entrepreneurs and experts in the tourism industry. Belarus is represented by the Tourism Department of the...

Representatives of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam came to Belarus. The Vietnamese delegation is led by Nguyen Van Long, representatives of the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry told BelTA. Belarusian First Deputy Internal Affairs Minister, Chief of the Public Security Police Yuri Nazarenko welcomed the foreign colleagues. He remarked that cooperation between the two ministries develops dynamically. “We have positive experience of training Vietnamese specialists in...

Belarus has cropped 97.5% of area under crops, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 5 September, over 98% of the area under grain and leguminous crops and more than 94% of the area under rapeseed was cleared in Belarus. A total of 7,058,000 tonnes of grain was cropped. This includes 6,091,000 tonnes of grain and leguminous crops and over 967,000 tonnes of rapeseed. Belarusian agricultural workers continue harvesting cereal crops: some 11,600 tonnes of...