Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Tour guide Sofia Macharashvili talked about Euphrosyne of Polotsk in a new episode of the V Teme. Nashi [On Point. The Nation’s Pride] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.

The agro-industrial sector should form large integrated structures, as the market currently demands major players, Vladimir Lukyanov, General Director of Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky, told the media following his report to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 29 January, BelTA has learned.

Belarus and China will step up cooperation in standardization on a bilateral level and within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), BelTA learned from the press service of Belarus’ State Committee for Standardization.

The Intellectual Belarus Forum will be held at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk on 28 January, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belaya Rus public association.

The monthly childcare allowance for children under three will be increased in Belarus on 1 February, BelTA learned from the Labor and Social Security Ministry.

The Orzeszko family chapel vault in Drogichin District was opened on 22 January, BelTA has learned.

The winter bison count has started in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, BelTA learned from the national park.

The Belarusian government is working on modernizing the child care benefit system, Deputy Prime Minister Natalya Petkevich said during a joint sitting of the two houses of the Belarusian parliament in Minsk on 21 January, BelTA has learned.

A joint session of the two chambers of the Belarusian parliament, at which the government will answer questions from members of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic, will be held on 21 January, the press service of the House of Representatives told BelTA.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Nikolai Snopkov introduced the new head of the National Tourism Agency, Kirill Masharsky, to the staff of the agency and outlined updated objectives for the sector’s development, BelTA has learned.