Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is on a visit to Russia, the Pul Pervogo Telegram channel informed, BelTA has learned.  “For the first two days the two presidents will have informal talks in Zavidovo. The official program is scheduled for Saturday,” the Telegram channel reports.  The working meeting of the two leaders will be held in St. Petersburg on 25 June. It is noteworthy that this day marks 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belarus...

On the Day of National Remembrance of Victims of the Great Patriotic War and the Genocide of the Belarusian People Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko laid flowers at a mass grave in the village of Khimy, Orsha District not far from where he grew up, BelTA has learned. In addition to the outstanding monuments everybody knows and memorial complexes, which remind visitors about the war-torn past, Belarus has thousands of small graves like this and monuments, which should not be forgotten...

If rural communities have normal conditions for life and work, then people will come, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he visited the Yubileiny agricultural company in Orsha District on 21 June, BelTA has learned. "If conditions for life and work are good, people will come," the head of state answered a question about what measures need to be taken to keep young people in rural communities. Aleksandr Lukashenko said that in the past, when he was the head of a farm, he...

The task is to reach a gross grain harvest of 9-10 million tonnes in the near term, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a working visit to Mogilev Oblast on 20 June, BelTA has learned. Upon arrival at the field with different varieties of winter barley sown as an experiment, the head of state stressed that today is a historic and crucial moment in agriculture. The president said that he grew up in these places at the junction of Mogilev Oblast and Vitebsk Oblast and here he...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko is starting a new week with a working trip to his native land - the agricultural town of Alexandria, Shklov District - where he will discuss the state and prospects of the country's agricultural industry, BelTA informs. “The president's famous experimental fields are located there. These fields are known for novel crops and the use of the latest in technology. This is the standard of agriculture in Belarus. The president will check how crops are...

It is necessary to clearly define the form of admission tests to universities, since centralized testing has both advantages and disadvantages, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard out a report on the integration of biology and medicine, BelTA has learned.  “This problem bothers me all the time. To be honest, I can't sleep because of this centralized testing as I keep asking myself whether this is an efficient way to select the best enrollees. Frankly speaking,...