Chair of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova hosted a meeting to discuss fur production at the Belarusian National Union of Consumer Societies (Belkoopsoyuz). Taking part in the meeting were representatives of the government, Belarusian state light industry concern Bellegprom and Belkoopsoyuz, BelTA reports. The meeting at the Council of the Republic was held in furtherance of the 24 November meeting with the team of the GNL design center of...

Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Elena Baldovskaya spoke about an early voting option on the single voting day in 2024 during the round table titled Upcoming Election Campaign held in BelTA's press center. “Early voting is carried out within five days ahead of the voting day. On 20-24 February voters who will not be able to come to the polling station on Sunday, 25 February, will be able to exercise their voting rights during the early voting period,”...

A World Radiocommunication Conference is an event that presents an opportunity to promote one's ideas, BelTA learned from First Deputy State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Pavel Muraveiko. A World Radiocommunication Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) opened in Dubai on 20 November and will last through 15 December. There are over 30 items on the agenda. They affect virtually all the radio communication services. Belarus' interests are represented...

Belarus' Consul General in Shanghai Andrei Andreyev and Consul Konstantin Golovko represented Belarus at the SCO's Traditional Medicine Forum in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, BelTA learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Shanghai. The Belarusian diplomats took part in the forum and discussed Belarus-China cooperation with the leadership of Jiangxi Province and the city of Nanchang. In an interview on a regional TV channel, Andrei Andreyev emphasized that Belarusians are...

The lower chamber of the Russian parliament unanimously ratified a Belarusian-Russian agreement on setting up and operating combat training centers for the joint training of military personnel on 5 December, BelTA has learned. The agreement was signed in Minsk on 28 March 2023. Belarus finished the document's ratification in July 2023. The agreement regulates the establishment and operation of combat training centers based on army units in Belarus and Russia. The agreement determines the...

The Eurasian group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (EAG) kicked off its 39th plenary session in Sanya, China on 4 December. The Belarusian delegation is headed by Director of the Financial Monitoring Department of the State Control Committee Vyacheslav Reut, BelTA learned from the State Control Committee. The participants of the session are set to consider reports on the progress of the “anti-money laundering” systems of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyzstan...