Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree to revise the development plan of Minsk and nearby territories, clarify certain aspects of its implementation, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. Major provisions of the new capital city development plan till 2030 refresh the policy of city planning and territorial development and revise the forecast targets. For example, the document envisages that the population will increase to 2 million and the...

A total of 227 candidates to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the sixth convocation have taken part in the pre-election televised debates. The relevant information was posted on the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus, BelTA has learned. Candidates in the Belarusian capital demonstrated the highest activity at this stage of the election campaign. 80 people running for the Belarusian parliament in Minsk took part in the televised debates. In...

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union States will make part of the CIS observation mission to monitor the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Parliamentary Assembly. The delegation will consist of six members representing both houses of the Russian Parliament and members of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly. The delegation will be led by Leonid Slutsky, a member...

The Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry suggests introducing visa-free travels for tourists willing to visit another three transboundary nature reserves. Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Kovkhuto made the statement during the joint session of the boards of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry and the Sports and Tourism Ministry, BelTA has learned. The session was focused on developing ecological tourism in...

MINSK, 19 August (BelTA) – Belarus and China intend to implement about 30 joint research and development projects in 2016-2017, BelTA learned from Chairman of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus Alexander Shumilin before the session of the Belarusian-Chinese intergovernmental committee on cooperation on 18 August. The official said that Belarus and China intend to implement 28 joint research projects and research and development ones in 2016-2017. The list was...

MINSK, 10 August (BelTA) – The number of foreign citizens, who are willing to get education in Belarusian universities, is on the rise, BelTA learned from Belarusian First Deputy Education Minister Vadim Bogush. The total number of foreign students in Belarusian educational institutions this year is close to 19,000. Most of them are university students. Foreign citizens come to Belarus to get professional linguistic education. Professions relating to economy and high technologies are...