Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Experts of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have finalized the draft plan of events of the CIS Year of Folk Art and Cultural Heritage, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

Belarusian and Russian scientists are working on the world's first bacterial COVID-19 vaccine to be administered through consumption of dairy products, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksandr Sergeyev said at the plenary session of the 8th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia on 1 July, BelTA has learned.

A total of 11% of Minskers have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Deputy Chief Physician of the Minsk City Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology Natalya Avtukhova told reporters on 30 June, BelTA has learned.

Russia is Belarus' special partner in terms of international cooperation in science and technology, Chairman of the Standing Commission on International Affairs and National Security of the Council of the Republic Sergei Rachkov said as he spoke at the panel discussion "Improving the cooperation between Russia and Belarus in implementing the Union State programs and project in science and technology within the framework of international treaties" hosted by the Presidential Library, BelTA has learned.

The bill on amendments to laws on protecting sovereignty and constitutional order has passed the second reading at the fifth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation, BelTA has learned.

The model of the Belarusian state based on the Constitution is effective and sustainable, Chairman of Belarus' Constitutional Court Piotr Miklashevich told reporters on 24 June, BelTA has learned.

Belarus confirmed 802 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours; another 805 coronavirus patients were discharged from hospital, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

Belarusians should always remember what trials the people had to go through during the Great Patriotic War. Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko made the relevant statement as he participated in a flower laying ceremony in the memorial complex Trostenets on 22 June, BelTA has learned.

Belarus will observe a nationwide minute of silence on 22 June, Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War, BelTA has learned.

Minsk City Technopark in collaboration with the China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone has launched a competition of startup projects, STARTUP GREAT CHALLENGE, the first event of this kind in Belarus, BelTA learned from the technopark.