Belarus organized a large-scale exposition of Belarusian foods at the international food expo UzFood in Uzbekistan, representatives of the exhibition enterprise BelInterExpo told BelTA.  The international expo of food, ingredients, and production technologies UzFood 2022 is scheduled to take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 29-31 March. The Belarusian exposition featured products by 21 food producers. The exposition stood out from the crowd thanks to the versatility of areas and industry...

The Healthcare Ministry of Belarus and an international biotechnology company based in Russia BIOCAD plan to sign an agreement, BelTA informs citing the press service of the Healthcare Ministry.  Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich went to Saint Petersburg as part of Belarus' government delegation.  Dmitry Pinevich is set to take part in the 12th session of the Belarus-Saint Petersburg Business Cooperation Council where he will deliver a report. A strategic cooperation agreement is to...

Omicron BA.2 (dubbed Stealth Omicron) spreads even faster, but it is less severe than its parent strain called BA.1, Yelena Gasich, head of the laboratory for diagnosing HIV and concomitant infections at the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs.  Yelena Gasich noted that the both Omicron subvariants appeared almost simultaneously. Initially, there was a surge in BA.1 but then it began to be gradually replaced by its...

It is necessary to work fast, with precision, and highly professionally in the course of large-scale reformation of the legal system taking into account the adopted amendments and addenda to the Constitution. Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova made the statement at a session of the Justice Ministry board, which looked into the quality of lawmaking in the government system and the organization of lawmaking in the course of the...

Roaming charges for incoming calls will be canceled in the territory of the Belarus-Russia Union State on 1 April, the press service of the Russian government said following the meeting of the High-Level Group under the Union State Council of Ministers on 23 March, BelTA informs. “Work continued to implement the action plan to make communication services in the Union State more convenient,” the government of the Russian Federation noted. “The participants of the meeting reviewed the...

A session of the Information Policy Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia will take place in Mogilev on 31 March, the press service of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia told BelTA.  Participants of the session will be informed about the Union State program on forming common principles of operation of the common market of communications and informatization for the sake of realizing the Supreme State Council's...