As many as 6,995,181 voters have been entered into the voter lists for the Belarus president election, BelTA learned from the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus. In particular, there are 1,000,295 voters in Brest Oblast, 877,793 voters in Vitebsk Oblast, 1,101,044 voters in Gomel Oblast, 778,355 voters in Grodno Oblast, 1,116,183 voters in Minsk Oblast, 814,852 voters in Mogilev Oblast, and 1,300,917 voters in the city of Minsk. As many as 5,742 people have been...

The business community of Vitebsk Oblast with the financial support of the Eurasia Foundation has launched a program to teach school students the basics of running a business, BelTA learned from Ida Sitnikova, the head of the Vitebsk regional institute for education development. The international project "School business companies: the potential for business education of school students" was started on 18 September. It is run by the Vitebsk Business Center with the financial assistance...

One of Italy's leading companies Granarolo is mulling over dairy production in Belarus, Belarus' Vice Premier Mikhail Rusy told media on 10 September, BelTA informs. Various sites are being considered for the implementation of the project. "We have already showed Granarolo a number of Belarusian dairies, including in Gomel, Turov, and Vitebsk," said Mikhail Rusy. It is expected that one of the Belarusian companies will produce dairy products that have not been manufactured in the country...

To develop rural and ecotourism in Belarus, we should study the preferences of our guests and provide state support to promising country estate owners, Olga Makhanenko, the chairperson of the public council on the development of rural and ecotourism in Vitebsk Oblast, the owner of the Priozernaya country estate in Lepel District, told BelTA. "Now is not the right time to increase the number of country estates and the volume of tourism services. It is important to focus on the quality,...

Belarus and Israel are discussing the ways to promote of the joint Agro-Industrial Park project, the Belarusian Minsitry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA when commenting on today's meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Israel Vladimir Skvortsov and Minister of Immigrant Absorption of the State of Israel, Chairman of the Israeli part of the Joint Belarusian-Israeli Committee on Trade and Economic Cooperation Zeev Elkin. The parties discussed the...

Belarus and Russia are looking into the possibility to create a cross-border biosphere reserve, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Igor Kachanovsky told BelTA. "I have already met with representatives of the Association of Reserves and National Parks of Russia's North-West to talk over the creation of the cross-border biosphere reserve Osveya-Krasny Bor-Sebezhsky National Park. Its creation will take place under the auspices of the UNESCO. The materials on the...