The state intends to invest in setting up auxiliary productions in countryside, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko noted during his visit to the agro-town of Geraneny. Such productions are needed in order to prevent an outflow of people who are made redundant as a result of the modernization of agricultural production. The locals in Geraneny faced the problem of job finding after the renovated farm started utilizing up-to-date technologies and reduced the number of employees from 30...

More than 3,515 thousand people took part in the nationwide clean-up day on April 19, BelTA was told in the council of Ministers Office. More than Br13.89 billion was earned. The output of industrial products was equal to almost Br25.22 billion; contractor works Br6.77 billion. According to the Council of Ministers Office, 680.5 thousand people took part in the voluntary clean-up day in Minsk, 488.3 thousand in the Brest oblast, 455.3 thousand in Vitebsk oblast, 428,5 thousand in the Grodno...

Belarus is interested in displaying advanced information technologies, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said when he met with Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union Hamadoun Toure on April 21. “Sophisticated technologies are the face of any country. Which is why we are interested in your seeing this level while in Belarus,” said the head of state. Alexander Lukashenko underscored, efforts of the International Telecommunication Union and Belarusian...

Around 300 foreign citizens will arrive in Minsk to take part in the first international forum of graduates of Belarusian (Soviet) universities “Education without Borders” will be held on May 28-30. Vice Premier of Belarus Alexander Kosinets has been elected head of the organizing committee of the forum, BelTA learnt in the foreign relations department of the Belarusian Education Ministry. Foreign citizens - graduates of Belarusian (Soviet) universities, foreign citizens including...

The Republic of Belarus represented by the High-Tech Park and South African company Lyons Financial Solutions Holdings (PTY) Ltd have signed an investment agreement for building a real estate area in the HTP, head of the HTP administration Valery Tsepkalo told media on April 18. He said, the company is the strategic investor for designing and building the High-Tech Park. It will finance designing, prospecting and engineering works the construction of HTP facilities involves. The project is...

About 130 graduate students from foreign countries attend Belarus’ universities and research centres annually, deputy head of the State Committee for Science and Technologies Igor Voitov noted during the opening of the international research conference “Innovations and training highly skilled research workers in Belarus and abroad” in Minsk. “The interest of foreign states in cooperation with Belarus in the sphere of highly skilled personnel training grows constantly,” he noted....

The government is ready to scrap the 12-year school education scheme if it is found unviable, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a government session held on April 17 to discuss the viability of 12-year-long secondary school education. The head of state pointed out both education and healthcare are part of the vital interests everyone has, which is why any wrong decisions hurt the entire society. As the problem is topical, the government session gathered not only...

By the end of the year Russia will supply five kits of equipment worth $750,000 for the bird flue diagnostic laboratories of Belarus, Leonid Titov, the director of the research institute of epidemiology and microbiology, told reporters April 17. According to him, a kit costs $150,000. The equipment will be delivered to all regional labs apart for the Gomel oblast where the lab is fully equipped. Leonid Titov said that the equipment can be used to diagnose not only bird flue but also other...

On April 15, the second liver transplantation operation was successfully performed in Belarus, Health Minister of Belarus Vasily Zharko told reporters on April 16. According to him, a 51-year old woman with diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis had a liver transplantation operation. At present she is well, physicians note. The liver transplantation operation was performed by the same team of the surgeons who carried out the first operation.

This year the trade turnover between Belarus and the Moscow oblast is supposed to increase up to $3 billion, Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov told media after a session of the working group for cooperation between Belarus and the Moscow oblast held in the town of Dolgoprudny on April 16. In 2007 the trade between Belarus and the Moscow oblast approached $2 billion, 42.1% up on 2006. In January-February 2008 the trade totalled $364.1 million (53.6% up). Andrei Kobyakov...