Work to deter and prevent unjustified increases in prices will continue, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Ministry. According to the source, Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Minister Aleksei Bogdanov went to Brest Oblast on a business trip. He heard out complaints and petitions from citizens in the Ivatsevichi District Executive Committee and then visited OAO Ivatsevichdrev and OAO Bereza Meat Canning Plant. Among other...

Belarusian agricultural workers have planted early spring cereals and leguminous crops on 82.7% of the planned area, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 25 April, early spring crops (excluding corn, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 533,100 hectares. Planting was done on 67.4% of the designated area in Vitebsk Oblast, 93.2% of the area in Minsk Oblast, 33.3% of the area in Mogilev Oblast. The planting in Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast and Gomel Oblast...

Specialists of the Pharmaceutical Inspectorate of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry are taking part in a session of the expert council of the Eurasian Academy of Good Practices in Moscow, the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry press service told BelTA.  An expanded-participation session of the expert council and the final stage of the international university student festival GxP Fest 2022 took place in Moscow on 21 April. The events are supposed to help reveal young talents and create a...

Belarus is taking part in the 20th international exhibition Tourism and Travel, which is running in Kazakhstan on 20-22 April, BelTA learned from the the National Tourism Agency.  Representatives of the Belarusian travel industry are taking part in the exhibition as part of the national stand. The Belarusian tourism potential is presented by the National Tourism Agency and the Clinics of Belarus information portal of medical services.  Specialists provide detailed and visual...

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Kazakhstan Pavel Utyupin met with Minister of Education and Science of Kazakhstan Askhat Aimagambetov, BelTA learned from the Belarusian embassy in Kazakhstan. The meeting took place at the Ministry of Education and Science. The parties praised the positive experience of the scientific and educational consortium, as well as the high level of interaction between higher educational institutions and...

Belarus has launched the production of the Sputnik Light vector vaccine to prevent COVID-19, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, BelTA has learned.  According to the minister, Belarus and Russia completed a technology transfer and now the whole production process of Sputnik Light is done by the domestic enterprise Belmedpreparaty. Thus the Belarus-Russia project to produce the Sputnik Light vaccine against the coronavirus infection advanced...