MINSK, 18 June (BelTA) – Vehicles, which enter Belarus via the Novaya Guta border checkpoint (the Ukrainian border checkpoint Novi Yarylovychi on the other side of the border), will be subjected to mandatory disinfection. The experiment will take place from 1 July through 1 October 2021, representatives of the State Border Committee of Belarus told BelTA. Buses, cars, and trucks with Belarusian registration and foreign registration will be subjected to disinfection. The company OOO...

MINSK, 7 June (BelTA) – Belarus has established a new national holiday – the Day of People's Unity. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No.206 on 7 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian head of state. Decree No.206 amends Decree No.157 of 26 March 1998 “On national holidays, public holidays, and commemorative dates in the Republic of Belarus”. The Day of People's Unity will be celebrated on 17 September (not a day off). “This date symbolizes...

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) – The Minsk-based tractor manufacturer MTZ, the Gomel-based manufacturer of agricultural machines Gomselmash, and the St Petersburg-based manufacturer of heavy tractors Peterburgsky Tractorny Zavod (Kirovets trademark) will sign a cooperation memorandum, the MTZ press service told BelTA. The draft memorandum provides for the joint development of innovative projects, information sharing, and other measures meant to step up manufacturing cooperation. The document will...

MINSK, 15 May (BelTA) - Green mobility makes small towns more comfortable and greener, expands opportunities for new digital technologies, and stimulates new partnerships and interregional interaction, BelTA learned the UNDP office in Belarus as it summed up the results of the Green Cities project. Aleksandr Goroshko, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus and National Coordinator of the Green Cities project, also highlighted a special demand in small...

MINSK, 20 April (BelTA) – Belarus will debut at Arabian Travel Market, the largest tourism exhibition in the Middle East, which will be held in Dubai from 16 to 19 May, BelTA learned from the Belinterexpo exhibition enterprise at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI). In 2019, the exhibition drew 40,000 representatives of the tourism industry from 151 countries, including government delegations, tour operators and travel agents, airline, travel bloggers and organizations...

MINSK, 15 April (BelTA) - Belarus has joined the Geneva Act on legal protection of industrial designs, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee on Science and Technology. Belarus has signed a law to accede to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs. The Geneva Act governs the international system of registration and legal protection of industrial designs (design of products), the committee explained. Currently,...

MINSK, 9 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian startup Covid-Ray and the cloud provider IBA Cloud have launched a service that can detect even asymptomatic pneumonia with 91% accuracy by processing a digital image, BelTA has learned. The service can detect pulmonary fever by processing an x-ray image. The artificial intelligence determines the patient's status – normal, pneumonia, another pathology – on the basis of about 250,000 images. Every diagnosis has a degree of accuracy and it is up...

MINSK, 31 March (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed decree No.128 on applying special measures on 30 March, the press service of the head of state told BelTA. The document has been passed for the sake of ensuring security and protecting national interests of the Republic of Belarus. The decree provides for prohibiting the import of certain categories of merchandise and the import of services provided by natural persons and legal persons of the countries that have...

MINSK, 26 March (BelTA) – The Sputnik V vaccine produced in Belarus will undergo quality control at the Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology of Russia's Ministry of Health, Belmedpreparaty Director General Sergei Belyayev told reporters, BelTA has learned. The Belmedpreparaty pharmaceutical company started mass production of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V. “Quality control of this vaccine will be in progress in the next three weeks. The vaccine will...

MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) – On 16 March Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 107 “On biometric documents”, BelTA learned from the press service of the head of state. In accordance with the decree, biometric documents will be introduced on 1 September this year. They will allow computerizing the identification process, easing passport control while crossing the border, and will facilitate the development of electronic services. The new type of documents will have a...