A comprehensive test of territorial defense command and control bodies is in progress in Gomel Oblast, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA. Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus, Major-General Viktor Gulevich handed the relevant executive order to Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Ivan Krupko. The executive order authorized the test of people’s militia. People’s militia is a component of Belarus’ territorial...

The nomination of candidates for delegates to the Belarusian People’s Congress is beginning on 12 March, BelTA has learned. Prospective delegates are nominated by organizational structures from the regions and the city of Minsk and are elected by the governing bodies of civil society entities from among members of these entities (they should be members of this civil society entity). There should be delegates from each region and the city of Minsk. Prospective delegates to the Belarusian...

Director of the Tourism Department of the Sports and Tourism Ministry Irina Voronovich told BelTA’s The Nation Speaks project about the state of things in the domestic tourism. “Belarusians are discovering those places in the country that they have never considered visiting. Our regions are working to promote local attractions. We have launched pilot projects. Each region has chosen some distinguishing feature that can become its trademark and attract tourists,” said Irina...

The main crew and the backup crew of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25, which includes two women from Belarus, have arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome before their flight to the International Space Station (ISS), the Roscosmos press service told BelTA.  Representatives of the technical administration and the state commission welcomed the crews at the Krainy airfield. Commanding officers of the crews told the administration they are ready for the flight and for taking over the Soyuz...

A delegation of Belarus’ Armed Forces is taking part in a seminar on battlefield medicine for Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Islamabad, Pakistan, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. Participants of the seminar are expected to discuss medical support for military personnel and the evacuation of people with various injuries.  Participants of the seminar will also share the best practices in the field of providing medical aid to military personnel...

About 20 countries will be featured at the 31st edition of the  Minsk International Book Fair, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will be the central exhibitor, Dmitry Makarov, Chairman of the CIS Council of Organizers of Book Exhibitions and Fairs, Executive Director of the Minsk International Book Fair, told journalists in Minsk on 4 March, BelTA has learned.   About 20 countries will participate in the International Quarter program. "Iran will have the central stand. We have already...