Новости за 07.03.2024

The embassy said: “Our 220-tonne truck in the Kolyvansky open-pit coal mine in Novosibirsk Oblast has been named after President of Russia Vladimir Putin. It is not only an honor but a great responsibility. We are convinced that the vehicles made in Zhodino will not fail.”

According to the chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences, Belarusian scientists can take an active part in the Global Energy Prize contest.

The congratulatory message reads: “I wish you to realize all plans and projects for the sake of continued development of your beautiful country, to satisfy needs of the Pakistani society. I am convinced that cooperation with Minsk will help with it."

It took Yelena Grigorenko more than 15 years to become an established expert in the domestic cardiology and international science.

Leading soloists of the Belarusian Opera will be guests of the Slavic House Opera Festival at the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater.

Gosatomnadzor Head Olga Lugovskaya stressed that as a nuclear and radiation safety regulatory body the department remains open to all partners, who are interested in working with Belarus.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has made a decision to appoint Aleksandr Yegorov Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration.

"The construction industry in 2023 was one of the main drivers of economic growth. We met all the targets. Along with trade and manufacturing sector, we contributed more than 5% to the national GDP. We did well in terms of manufacturing (both the volume of production and physical values), and also in terms of export of services and goods," Ruslan Parkhamovich said.

According to the speaker of the upper chamber of the parliament, Natalya Kochanova and Aleksandr Lukashenko discussed matters concerning the formation of the new composition of the parliament and the tasks it will have to accomplish.

The nomination of candidates to the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus will begin on 12 March and has to end on 21 March at the latest. The actual elections to the Council of the Republic are supposed to take place on 4 April 2024.

This tournament is the first one for Belarusian athletes after their return to the world arena. The Wednesday program featured men’s qualification events. Among the top performers in Qualification Group B was Belarus’ Maksim Maruk (1,182 points, 3rd position). Belarus’ Uladzislau Nestsiarau was 19th (1,151).

"In the course of work on the free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and the Islamic Republic of Iran, we agreed on many things and we are now putting all our agreements into practice," Member of the Board (Minister) for Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission Andrei Slepnev said at a meeting with the Iranian side on the Eurasian Agroexpress project in Moscow.

The participants of the meeting took stock of the passenger and freight traffic in 2023, discussed prospective areas in 2024, and also cooperation on infrastructure modernization and train traffic.

The book is the joint project of the Belarusian Information Ministry and the winner of the president’s Spiritual Revival award Vladimir Likhodedov.

The country’s gold and foreign currency reserves went up by $125.1 million (or 1.55%) in February 2024 after declining by $33.9 million (0.44%) in January 2024.

In February individuals bought the equivalent of $753.1 million in cash and cashless forms and sold $921.1 million worth of foreign currency. In January-February foreign currency sales by individuals exceeded purchases by $154.1 million.

Earlier, at a large meeting with the senior staff of the country’s national security bodies Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said that the self-exiled opposition and their foreign handlers from intelligence services are working out three main scenarios.

Cooperation of business unions stimulates economic initiative of citizens, Andrei Kopytok, Chairman of the Supreme Coordinating Council of the Union of Legal Entities “Confederation of Entrepreneurship”, said at an extended board meeting of the Belarusian Economy Ministry.