Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Belarusian youth teams won seven diplomas at the international business game Beginner Farmer that wrapped up in Moscow Oblast, Russia on 20 May, head of the Belarusian delegation, Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the BRSM Youth Union Aleksandr Prokhorov told BelTA.

Joint efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in this difficult time should be a key element of the new just system of multipolarity which is based on effective complementary cooperation of the EAEU member states, regional integration associations, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich said at an online High-level discussion on harnessing inter-regional integration for the SDGs which has been organized by Belarus, Barbados and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), BelTA has learned.

An Il-76МД military transport aircraft with humanitarian aid from the People's Republic of China landed at the Machulishchi airfield. On board is the Chinese vaccine for coronavirus, BelTA has learned.

The Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine produced in Belarus is distributed only after its quality has been confirmed, Belmedpreparaty Director General Sergei Belyayev told the STV TV channel, BelTA informs.

An Ilyushin Il-76MD airlifter has taken off from the Machulishchi airfield and is en route to Beijing to bring humanitarian aid from China - the Chinese vaccine against coronavirus, BelTA learned from the Defense Ministry.

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.

The Belarusian Healthcare Ministry together with the Russian Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) is conducting a study of herd immunity against COVID-19 in Belarus.

As of 1 May 2021, 98,561 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, 16,182 of which were opened under the new program for 2020-2024, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry.

A solemn procession went from Lenina Square to Pobedy Square where flowers were laid at a monument in honor of Soviet soldiers, partisans, and underground resistance fighters of Vitebsk Oblast as part of the celebration of Victory Day in Vitebsk on 9 May.

On 6 May, Vitebsk State Medical University hosted a ceremony to unveil a commemorative plaque for Sergei Belov, holder of the USSR State Prize, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, PhD of Medicine, colonel of the medical corps, holder of the Order of the Red Star and Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st Class.