MINSK, 14 July (BelTA) – The network of toll roads in Belarus will grow larger by 256km as from 1 August, BelTA learned from the press service of BelToll, the national digital road toll collection system. As from 1 August road toll will also be collected for the passage in some sections of the motorways M5 Minsk-Gomel, M6 Minsk-Grodno, M7 Minsk – the Lithuanian border and R1 Minsk-Dzerzhinsk. As a result, the total length of toll roads in Belarus will reach 1,189km. The second stage of...

MINSK, 7 July (BelTA) – In June, the national air company Belavia carried more than 250,700 passengers, up 27.6% over June of last year, BelTA learnt from the Belavia press service. "The number of passengers carried out by Belavia in June was a record high for the air company,” the press service said. In January-June this year the Belarusian airline carried about 773,300 passengers, up 20.1% as compared to the same period last year. Over the period Belavia transported 12.5% more...

MINSK, 30 June (BelTA) – Large-scale celebrations of Belarus’ Independence Day will start on 1 July, First Deputy Culture Minister Irina Driga told media, BelTA has learned. The nationwide celebrations will feature a number of major events, including both traditional and new ones. The celebrations on 1 July will begin with a solemn meeting and a concert in the Palace of Republic in Minsk. "This is a traditional event, but we tried to bring some new names and ideas into the concert...

MINSK, 26 June (BelTA) – The Investigation Committee of Belarus plans to create its own school for the training of young specialists, chairman of the Investigation Committee of Belarus Valentin Shayev told a press conference, BelTA has learned. "We are planning to create our own educational institution for the training of qualified personnel. Work on this is in progress. We can say that this is the project of the immediate future,” Valentin Shayev said. The Academy of the Interior...

MINSK, 23 June (BelTA) – Parliaments of the Customs Union member states will ratify the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty during the autumn session. The statement was made by Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the commission for CIS affairs, Eurasian integration, and relations with compatriots of the Russian State Duma, chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, BelTA has learned. The treaty will be ratified synchronously on the same...

MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) – Nesvizh opens an annual festival, Bolshoi Theater Nights at the Radziwills’ Castle, on 20 June, BelTA learnt from the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus, the organizer of the cultural project. The festival, in its fifth year, will feature a varied program of entertainment. The festival will be opened by the string quintet Serenada: Melodies of Love at the Theater Hall of the castle featuring opera singer Tatiata Tretyak. One of the...