Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Botanical Garden in Minsk shines with magic lights: large luminous insects, birds and lizards welcome guests. The exposition here is divided into locations: a bee hive, a snail race, a swamp with lilies and frogs, and even a family of huge scorpions. The entire lantern garden is accompanied by themed sound design, from magical music to buzzing insects.

The Decree of the Council of Ministers of December 29, 2023 № 996 provided for the redistribution of subventions for housing construction by regions, the document is officially published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

Another good tradition is to congratulate moms who gave birth to babies in the first hours of the New Year. Today, three little Belarusians, who were born in the first minutes of this year, received the first gifts from the President in their lives. The Filistovich family was congratulated by Minister of Health Dmitry Pinevich on behalf of the head of state at the Minsk Regional Clinical Maternity Hospital. This is the tenth child in the family of farmers from Vileyka District. The boy was named Alexander. In total, three residents of the region received the most precious gift of fate in this maternity hospital on January 1.

Belarus ran into the New Year in a sportive way. Traditionally, on January 1, the buffs of a healthy lifestyle joined the Sobriety Race. Athletes from different parts of Belarus take part in it. And this time more than 500 people wishing to run 5 km and get an unforgettable energy boost for the whole year gathered at the start near the Christmas tree near the Palace of Sports. A sea of smiles, New Year mood and colorful costumes of the participants. Even Santa Claus changed his warm felt boots for comfortable sneakers.

Belarus registered 164 initiative groups to collect signatures in support of candidates to the House of Representatives, BelTA learned from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus.

The Turkish Presidential Library has presented books to the National Library of Belarus, BelTA learned.

Belarus' national New Year Tree has made it into the top 10 tallest New Year trees in the CIS, BelTA learned from the data of the TourStat portal.

Since the start of the year 2023, a total of 411,360 residents of the neighboring EU states of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland have taken advantage of the visa waiver to come to Belarus, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.

A session of the Council of Ministers' Presidium took place on 21 December to discuss the fulfillment of instructions of the head of state and the government concerning the accelerated social and economic development of 11 administrative territories with the population of at least 80,000 people, BelTA has learned.

A sitting of the 11th session of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation will take place on 22 December, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of Belarusian Parliament.