Yury Zhadobin, the Minister of Defence of Belarus, has told journalists that Belarus has invited foreign observers from Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Poland, as well as representatives of the military and diplomatic corps of foreign countries accredited at the Belarusian Defence Ministry, to attend the active phase of the ‘West 2013’ exercise.
30.08.2013
On Thursday 29 August 2013 Grigory Rapota, the Secretary of the Union State, visited Minsk.
28.08.2013
In 2012 Russia was second in Europe for the number of apartments built. The newspaper Vedomosti has a report on the results of the “Real Estate Index” research conducted by Deloitte using data from the statistics services of 12 European countries and Russia.
28.08.2013
The Belarusian Investigative Committee has reported that criminal charges have been brought against several executives of the ZAO Belarusian Potash Company who had abused their official powers for personal gain over a long period. The abuse had resulted in considerable economic and reputational damage to OAO Belaruskali and the joint Russian and Belarusian company, CJSC Belarusian Potash Company. Pavel Traulko, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee commented on the situation in an interview with a BELTA correspondent.
28.08.2013
Over 50,000 people have now been affected by devastating floods in the far east of Russia.
28.08.2013
On 28 August Minsk hosted the fifth visiting session of the Advisory Committee on Customs Regulation. The session was chaired by Vladimir Goshin, a member of the Board for Customs Cooperation (the Minister for Customs Cooperation) at the Eurasian Economic Commission. Representatives of several ministries, departments, and business communities from the Customs Union States and the Common Economic Space of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia took part in the session.
28.08.2013
JSC Belinvestbank (Republic of Belarus) has announced that it has signed a credit agreement to take a syndicated loan amounting to USD 60 million.
28.08.2013
BELTA has learned from the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry that representatives of 26 companies and conglomerates from Sri Lanka will take part in a business forum and business matchmaking session in Minsk.
26.08.2013
In her interview with journalists Olga Vinogradova, the Deputy Chief of the Social Policy and Information Support Department of the Union State Permanent Committee, reported that the Union State has assigned a high priority to the rehabilitation and decontamination of rural areas affected by the radiation accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
26.08.2013
A photo exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk opened at the Executive Committee of the CIS countries in Minsk on 22 August.
26.08.2013
Following the results of the first half of 2013 Minsk raised net foreign direct investments to the value of USD 962 million. The sum exceeded the annual target, which, in turn, reached USD 950 million. Zhanna Birich, the Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee reported this at the meeting of the City Executive Committee held yesterday.
26.08.2013
The building of their armed forces is a strategic issue for every State. This is confirmed by, for example, developments in the international arena. The number of localised armed conflicts has not decreased over the years. On the contrarythere are new hotbeds of tension being whipped-up worldwide, and an increasing number of disputes are being settled through military action rather than diplomacy or international law.
26.08.2013
One of the biggest public organisations in the country is preparing for regular elections. White Russia has good reason: the increasing size of the organisation and its public support, its broad representation in Parliament and local government bodies, the interest of foreign political parties and increased attention from its opponents and the media.
26.08.2013
Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, has sent greetings to Alexander Mikhailov, the Governor of the Kursk Region, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Kursk. BELTA has learned this from the presidential press service.
23.08.2013
Miner’s Day events were held on 23 August 2013 in Leninsk-Kuznetski in the Kemerovo Region.
23.08.2013
During a meeting at the headquarters for fuel market monitoring the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation recommended oil companies to increase fuel sales through commodity exchanges. This was reported to the Petroleum Information Agency by a member of the headquarters staff.
23.08.2013
In the first half of 2013 Belarus increased oil product iexport to Russia 7-fold, as reported to BELTA by the National Statistics Committee of Belarus.
23.08.2013
Due to African swine fever, Lithuania will not be collecting payments for the disinfection of freight traffic at the border for the time being. BELTA has learned that the decision was made by Algirdas Butkevicius, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, after talking to representatives of the European Commission, which is likely to cover the costs.
23.08.2013
Belpochta (Belarusian post) has been awarded a silver medal at the “Thailand 2013” World Stamp Exhibition, BELTA learned this from Elena Orlova, a leading HR specialist at Belpochta.
22.08.2013
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has reported to the Prime agency that the Customs Unions of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may change the conditions for trade relations with Ukraine should Kiev sign an association agreement with the European Union, however the conditions will still be no tighter than those for other WTO countries.
22.08.2013