The nomination of Minsk Oblast candidates to the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus has been completed in line with the law. Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Igor Karpenko made the statement during the session of members of Minsk Oblast municipal councils of deputies held on 4 April to elect members of the eighth-convocation Council of the Republic, BelTA has learned. In his words, the single voting day held in Belarus on 25 February...

Systemic work is in progress in educational institutions to instill a respectful attitude to state symbols. Belarusian Education Minister Andrei Ivanets mentioned it at a session of the republican interagency coordinating council for the patriotic upbringing of the population held in the National Library of Belarus on 3 April to discuss efforts to instill respect for state symbols, BelTA has learned. Andrei Ivanets said: “Systemic work is in progress in educational institutions to...

The Russian Science and Culture Center, which is a branch of the Belarusian representative office of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), has opened in the Belarusian city of Grodno, BelTA has learned. Deputy Chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee Vitaly Nevera said: “The treaty on integrating the two states was signed on 2 April 1996. We’ve travelled quite...

The names of the first delegates of the Belarusian People’s Congress have been announced, BelTA has learned. On 1 April Minsk hosted an extraordinary conference of the Belarusian Women’s Union to nominate delegates to the Belarusian People’s Congress. Discussions and nominations of delegates by civil society and local councils of deputies have been going on in all regions of the country since 12 March. Civil society structures and regional councils of deputies will have to make a...

Minsk counts on unbiased conclusions of international experts on the situation in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. A UNESCO monitoring mission visited Belarus to assess the negative impact of the fence erected by Poland on the Belarusian-Polish border. The delegation visited Brest and Grodno regions. It was recorded that the construction was carried out without a project, and numerous norms were violated. As a result, the relic forest began to degrade: somewhere trees dried up, somewhere...

The formation of the Belarusian People’s Congress proceeds sufficiently publicly, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Igor Karpenko. Igor Karpenko said: “Candidates for delegates to the Belarusian People’s Congress are being nominated now. This process will end on 31 March. Elections of delegates to the Belarusian People’s Congress will take place on 1-10 April. In other words, the large electoral cycle that we launched on the single...