The Union State budget will allocate funds to sponsor recuperation holidays of about 1,600 children from Belarusian and Russian regions affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, BelTA learnt in the Union State Permanent Committee. In September 700 children of Gomel, Bryansk, Tula oblasts and Altai Krai will go to sanatoria located on the Black Sea shore nearby Tuapse. The other 900 children will spend their recuperation holidays in Moscow, Minsk, Vitebsk and Grodno oblasts. According to the...

Belarus has secured 100% of the public grain purchases. Belarus’ grain storage facilities and grain reception centres have received 1 million 20.6 thousand tonnes of grain bought by the government while the target was 1 million 10 thousand tonnes, BelTA learnt from Yelena Poltoran, Chief Economist of the Resources and Trade Office of the Cereal Products Department of the Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs. The first to secure the plan was the Minsk oblast with 258,2 thousand...

The republican unitary company “Production Association Belorusneft” will make a contribution in the national currency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela equivalent to $200 thousand into the authorized capital of a Belarusian-Venezuelan joint oil company in Venezuela. The decision is envisaged in the Council of Ministers’ resolution #1060. The document has been adopted in line with the Investment Code of Belarus and at the suggestion of the Belneftekhim concern. The joint...

Beltransgaz has fully paid for the natural gas supplied to Belarus in July, Beltransgaz spokesman Vladimir Chekov told BelTA. Thus, Beltransgaz transferred $144.7 million to Gazprom. “We have fulfilled our obligations to Gazprom and paid in time,” Vladimir Chekov said. A reminder, on January 1, 2007 the prices for Russian gas grew 2.14 times to $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. In line with the Belarusian-Russian agreements in H1, 2007 Belarus paid 55% of the cost of the Russian gas. In...

More than Br 1.5 million worth of foreign grants has been funneled into the reconstruction of the children’s summer camp Planeta in the Minsk region administrated by the Department for Humanitarian Issues of the State Property Management Department of the President of Belarus. Apart from that, Belarusian public organizations bought 102 camp vouchers for children living in contaminated regions of Gomel oblast and children from low-income families. Over the last few years a lot has been...

On August 20 President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met with Minister of Public Security of Vietnam Le Hong Anh. According to the President, in the next few months Vietnam will host a Belarusian-Vietnamese top level meeting where the heads of state will discuss all-round bilateral cooperation. The President stressed that the Belarusian-Vietnamese relations have been dynamically developing. “Vietnam is a very important country in South-East Asia for Belarus. This is a firm foothold for...

The new bridge over the Dnepr is a major contribution to the implementation of the programme for developing small urban communities. The statement was made today by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during the opening of a new bridge over the River Dnepr. The bridge connects the town of Kopys, Orsha region, Vitebsk oblast, and the village of Alexandria, Shklov region, Mogilev oblast. According to the head of state, the new bridge is a good gift bestowed upon the two communities and all...

A refusal to peg the Belarusian rubles to the Russian currency will not undermine stability of Belarus’ economy, President Alexander Lukashenko has told reporters today. “Only primitive economists-oppositionists consider the Belarusian economy to be unstable. Our economy will never collapse. I was saying this three and ten years ago. And I am telling you this now,” the Head of State noted. In turn, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Piotr Prokopovich explained...

Chairman of the Bragin regional executive committee Alexander Yatchenko has sent a letter to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko informing the Head of State that the construction of the high pressure gas pipeline Bragin-Komarin was completed, BelTA was told in the presidential press service.

Belarusian companies should put all their efforts into saving energy resources and assimilating new less power-hungry technologies, Belarus Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky told today’s government session in Lida. The session was dedicated to the work the Lida region executive committee had done to fulfil Belarus President Directive No. 3 of June 14, 2007 “Saving and frugality — the main factors in ensuring the national economic security”. According to Sergei Sidorsky, at present...