Новости за 21.02.2024

The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, heads of delegations from other countries also arrived for the opening ceremony. Famous athletes and artists were also seated next to them.

Belinterexpo, as part of the state delegation, is involved in the work of the joint standing commission on cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Zimbabwe.

The international multi-sport tournament Games of the Future is a hi-tech sport show. It consists of physical competitions and digital ones. A total of over 270 teams and more than 2,000 athletes from 107 countries will take part in the tournament.

A new equestrian season is kicking off with the Belarusian Indoor Eventing Championship at the National Olympic Equestrian Sports and Horse Breeding Center Ratomka.

Top on the agenda of the meeting were the military and political situation around Belarus, the single voting day and the outcomes of the recent meeting of the head of state with senior officials of the country’s national security system.

The delegation of the Union State MPs will be headed by the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly's Commission on Budget, Taxes and Financial Market Viktor Seliverstov.

The Chief Medical Commission convened for a meeting at the Cosmonaut Training Center on 21 February to analyze the data of medical examinations of the prime and backup crews of Visiting Expedition-21 during preflight training.

Belarus is ready to increase supplies of equipment and foodstuffs to Russia’s Tyumen Oblast, Belarusian Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich told the media on 21 February.

"Given the confidence and security crisis in the European region, a huge amount of incomplete, unreliable, and sometimes deliberately false information, it is extremely important that you receive information about the Armed Forces of Belarus and our assessment of the military-political situation from the first hands," Valery Revenko said addressing the audience.

The Tyumen Oblast delegation led by Deputy Governor Vladimir Cheimetov, visited Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ trademark). The delegation studied operations at the car assembly workshop and the company’s product samples.

Belarusian athletes have won first medals at the first international winter sports games Children of Primorye which are underway in Russia.

“The increasing scale of reconnaissance activities and the growing intensity of operational and combat training of foreign armed forces lead to an increasing number of violations of the state border of the Republic of Belarus in the airspace,” said Valery Revenko.

Belarus has established contacts with countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but the door for Western countries remains open, Colonel Valery Revenko, Head of the International Military Cooperation Department, Aide for International Military Cooperation to the Belarusian Defense Minister, told the media.

"Defender 2024, a series of exercises of the NATO combined armed forces and the U.S. armed forces, will be held in the European region in February-May. A series of exercises will be held under the general names Steadfast Defender 2024 and Defender Europe 2024.

According to the diplomat, cooperation between Belarus and Zimbabwe has been making a lot of progress recently. The parties are implementing the third phase of the agricultural mechanization program.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the agricultural reform envisaged abandoning the collective farming system. As a result, the fixed assets of agricultural enterprises almost halved in 1992-1994. The economic situation deteriorated.

The Belarusian economy demonstrated its sustainability in 2023 despite all the challenges and difficulties, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss the country’s social and economic development in 2023.

The action plan was signed for the first time, the Belarusian Defense Ministry emphasized.

The drivers of Belarus’ economic growth in 2023 were the manufacturing sector, construction, and trade, Belarusian Economy Minister Yuri Chebotar told the media before a meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss the country’s social and economic development in 2023.

You are a true friend of the Russian state, President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said during a meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Kazan, Russia on 21 February.

“Perhaps it is good that circumstances have pushed us towards each other. We should build our future ourselves,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

Reviewing the performance in 2023, the prime minister noted: “We managed to fulfil the most important tasks that were set by the head of state and were envisaged by the country’s social and economic development program."

Head of Russia’s Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov presented the Order of Friendship (Duslyk) to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko during the talks in Kazan on 21 February.

The turnout on the first day of early voting in the parliamentary and local elections was fairly high, Chairman of the Belarusian Central Election Commission Igor Karpenko told reporters.