Belarus' budget for 2016 will be approved without taking the planned redenomination into account, First Deputy Finance Minister Maksim Yermolovich told BelTA. "The budget will be approved in the prices as of 1 January 2016, i.e. without taking into account redenomination. Once the Belarusian ruble is redenominated on 1 July 2016, all the budget targets will be revised," said Maksim Yermolovich. Only the nominal value is to change, he added. The real cost of the budgetary resources and...

We need to maintain the stability of the Belarusian tax system, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said at the session held on 2 November to discuss the improvement of certain aspects of taxation and collection of land charges, BelTA has learned. Draft decrees regarding the harmonization of a number of legal acts with the Tax Code which entered into force on 1 January have been submitted to the head of state. The amendments, first of all, apply to land charges and other...

The Global Entrepreneurship Week will take place in 140 countries, including Belarus, on 16-22 November, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Economy Ministry.

MINSK, 21 October (BelTA) – European countries should work together to fight diseases. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement in his speech during the WHO European ministerial conference on the life-course approach to health promotion in Minsk on 21 October, BelTA has learned. The conference was held in the context of the World Health Organization’s health policy framework Health 2020. Alexander Lukashenko said: “Diseases know no borders. This is why we have to...

According to preliminary data, Alexander Lukashenko won the president election in Belarus, by gaining 83.49% of the vote, chairperson of the Central Election Committee Lidia Yermoshina told reporters, BelTA has learned. BELARUSIAN NEWS

Results of the Belarus president exit polls will be announced at 20h30 on 11 October, head of the Belarusian Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina said in an interview to the First National Channel of the Belarusian Radio, BelTA has learnt. Lidia Yermoshina noted that she will give press conferences every two hours in the information center in the Palace of Republic on 11 October. On the voting day two interesting results will be announced, which, according to Lidia Yermoshina,...