Minsk Oblast is interested in intensifying cooperation with Tajikistan in various areas, Minsk Oblast governor Aleksandr Turchin said at a meeting with Tajikistan Ambassador to Belarus Bakhtovar Safarzoda, BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Turchin noted the high level of relations between the leaders of the states, which contributes to interaction at the regional level. He said he was set to visit Sughd Region of Tajikistan in the autumn. "We need to step up cooperation. It has the...

Belarus, Perm Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region have discussed cooperation prospects in tourism, BelTA learned from the National Tourism Agency. The working groups on Belarus' cooperation with Perm Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region held a meeting that was also attended by representatives of the Sports and Tourism Ministry of Belarus. The parties discussed cooperation prospects in the field of tourism and the possibility of arranging FAM trips for representatives of...

A delegation of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam is in Belarus on a visit, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry. The delegation includes children of law enforcers killed or injured in the line of duty. Internal Affairs Minister Ivan Kubrakov and the heads of the Internal Affairs Ministry's units greeted the guests at Minsk National Airport. According to the Internal Affairs Ministry, the program of the Vietnamese delegation's visit to Belarus is...

Belarusian Sport and Tourism Minister Sergei Kovalchuk summed up the results of the 2nd CIS Games on the air of the ONT TV channel, BelTA reports. "The format was open. We hosted representatives of 22 countries. We changed the format of the Games itself. We held it not in one city, as it was in Kazan, but all over the country: regional centers, three district centers, the city of Minsk. We are trying new formats for various kinds of competitions: championships within the framework of the...

A center of the All-China Journalists Association and a Gansu Province media center at the Belarusian Union of Journalists have opened in Minsk, BelTA has learned. The representative office will operate at the Minsk-Novosti news agency. The parties signed an agreement on experience exchange and cooperation. There are plans for exchange visits, internships and other forms of cooperation. The event was attended by Belarus' First Deputy Information Minister Andrei Kuntsevich. "Today we are...

So far Team Belarus have won 105 medals at the 2nd CIS Games and are currently second in the team medal standings, BelTA has learned.   Team Belarus have 25 gold, 30 silver and 50 bronze medals. Only Team Russia are ahead, with 141 medals (69, 48, 24). Uzbekistan goes third with 41 (8, 13, 20). All in all, representatives of 11 states out of 22 participating ones have won medals at the Games so far.   The evening program on 9 August features the final bouts in freestyle wrestling...