Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Almaty hosted the 23rd regular meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units on 7 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

We have increased the number of state-funded student places in universities and reduced the number of tuition-paying places, Education Minister Andrei Ivanets said at a meeting hosted by the head of state to discuss the current university admission campaign, BelTA has learned.

The Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will convene for a meeting in Minsk on 8 June and will be presided by State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA.

The Union State has been developing dynamically, despite the external pressure of the collective West, Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko said in his message of greetings to the plenary session of the Russian-Belarusian forum of historians in Moscow, BelTA has learned.

Protection of motherhood and childhood in Belarus is one of the priorities of state policy, Lyudmila Aleinik, the spouse of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, said as she addressed an event on the occasion of International Children's Day in Gymnasium No. 12 in Minsk on 1 June, BelTA has learned.

The bison sent from the Belarusian Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park to Russia's Bashkortostan survived transportation well and are settling in a local forest, BelTA learned from the Belarusian President Property Management Directorate.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation adopted the bill “On the Ratification of the Protocol between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on Amendments to the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation on Joint Provision of Regional Security of 19 December 1997” at its ninth session on 31 May, BelTA has learned.

The meeting of the ninth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the seventh convocation is scheduled to take place on 31 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the House of Representatives.

Belarusian and Russian scientists intend to develop cooperation in space, microelectronics and software development, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Vladimir Gusakov told reporters before a joint meeting of the Presidiums of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Russian Academy of Sciences, BelTA has learned.

Under the current conditions, the tourism business in Belarus and Russia have an opportunity to refocus markets on domestic travel and new destinations, Gomel Oblast Vice Governor Dmitry Aleinikov said at the panel discussion “Time to Travel – Studying Experience, building Prospects”, held as part of the 24th edition of the Spring in Gomel International Exhibition, BelTA has learned.