Today, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has received the highest award of the Russian Orthodox Church given to laymen, the Order of the Grand Prince St. Vladimir 1st class. The award has been presented by Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, the Patriarch of All Belarus, during the celebrations on the occasion of consecrating the recently re-created reliquary of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk, the presidential press-service told BelTA. The award has been conferred on Alexander...

The policy aimed at preserving the historical legacy in Belarus will be continued, President Alexander Lukashenko said today during the ceremony of consecrating the re-created reliquary of St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk in the Monastery of the Saviour and St. Euphrosyne. “Preserving historical legacy in Belarus is one of the priority areas of the cultural policy. Today the state list of historical and cultural values includes over five thousand unique monuments, each of them being given special...

On the fixed date, on June 4, Gazprom has paid Belarus $625 million by transfer for 12.5% of the Belarusian Beltransgaz shares, the State Property Committee told BelTA.

The government is getting ready to sell some shares of highly profitable Belarusian companies. “We are ready to adequately welcome investors’ proposals”, Belarus First Vice Premier Vladimir Semashko told BelTA, as he visited several industrial companies in the Gomel oblast today. The First Vice Premier noted, three years ago enterprises of Belarusian petrochemical concern were incorporated — Novopolotsk Oil Refinery, Polymir, Grodno Azot, Grodno Khimvolokno, Mogilevkhimvolokno,...

Belarus needs to cross over from chaotic support to large-scale sport projects, said Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko meeting with coaches and sportsmen of the national rhythmic gymnastics team today. “The time of chaotic support has ended. It is time to make the transfer to major projects in gymnastics and all the sports”, stressed the head of state. In his words, serious attention is now paid to creating facilities for training rowers. The President believes, the same needs to...

Belarus has created every condition for developing skills and talents of young people, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with winners of international academic competitions, art contests and festivals, awardees of the President’s special foundations for the social support for gifted students and talented youth on May 31. The President’s press service told BelTA, at present major efforts are exercised across the country to create conditions for intellectual, physical...

Belarus has created every condition for developing skills and talents of young people, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with winners of international academic competitions, art contests and festivals, awardees of the President’s special foundations for the social support for gifted students and talented youth on May 31. According to Alexander Lukashenko, more than half of Belarusian school students get various forms of education fine-tuned to the degree of their...

A draft decree on targeted social aid will be submitted for consideration of the President of Belarus within three months, BelTA learnt in the Presidential Administration. The document is being elaborated in pursuance of President’s instruction with a view to streamlining the process of granting social benefits. The document will list the categories of people entitled to the targeted social aid, the list of benefits and eligibility criteria, the Presidential Administration informed. The...

Belarus is ready for a serious union with Russia, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with a delegation of the Siberian Federal District of the Russian Federation today. The President underlined, “absolutely nothing depends on Belarus” in the Union State construction. “We need to pull out of the present situation fast, to show that it was a mistake, and it is one, and need to return to building the Union, which was an example of how people should live and work”,...

The Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus has univocally voted through the bill “State social privileges, rights and benefits for certain population categories” at a regular plenary session today. The bill passed its second reading at the Chamber of Representatives on May 25. The bill envisages changes in privileged tariffs on housing and utilities services for certain population categories. The bill specifies population categories entitled to free medications and...