For the first time Minsk Arena will need so much electricity! This is what the employees of the sports facility say about the upcoming large-scale sports and entertainment show Time of Our Victories. The show will take place on 7 December, BelTA has learned. Why is this the first project of such a scale? The organizers call it partly experimental and, what is more important, socially-oriented. Attending the show will be mostly students from all over the country who have been invited to...

Elections are the main form of manifestation of the people's sovereignty, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Igor Karpenko said at a meeting of the Central Election Commission of Belarus to mark the 35th anniversary of the Belarusian institution of elections, BelTA has learned. “On 4 December 1989, still as part of the Soviet Union, the Supreme Council of the BSSR adopted a resolution on the establishment of the central election commission as a permanent state...

Representatives of the Belarusian tourism industry took part in an information tour of the Chinese Province of Henan at the end of November, BelTA learned from the National Tourism Agency.  The delegation included representatives of the tour operators authorized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China to receive groups of Chinese tourists, the National Tourism Agency and the Chinese Cultural Center in Minsk.  The tour participants visited the key...

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko has presented state awards to people from various professional backgrounds, including representatives of the Belarusian news agency BelTA in a ceremony in Minsk on 28 November, BelTA has learned. "On the instruction of the head of state, I will present well-deserved state awards to those who raise the bar of professionalism in Belarus with their work and innovation. Your achievements are not only the embodiment of ideas and plans. They are...

Belarus highly values constructive and result-oriented cooperation with IOM, Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva Larisa Belskaya said at the 115th session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She extended congratulations to DG Amy Pope on her successful and very impressive first year in the Office.  “Belarus highly values...

A delegation of the Investigative Committee of Belarus led by First Deputy Chairman Oleg Shandarovich has paid a visit to Uzbekistan, BelTA learned from the Investigative Committee of Belarus. The working trip started with a visit to the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Tashkent. Uzbek colleagues demonstrated information products, spoke about the activities of the department, and got the Belarusian delegation with the material and technical support of the Main Department of Internal...