Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

Since 1 January 2025, Belarus has hosted 167,506 travelers from 38 countries included in the visa-waiver program. Most travelers came from Belarus' neighboring countries: Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee.

Demand for autumn guided tours to Belarus has increased in Russia this year, BelTA learned from the Russian Union of the Travel Industry.

The Day of Belarusian Written Language was celebrated in Moscow with an exhibition and a performance, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia.

Belarus is developing a national action plan to ensure gender equality for the next five-year period, BelTA learned from Yelena Komlik, consultant of the Population, Gender and Family Policy Office of the Belarusian Labor and Social Protection Ministry, at a seminar dedicated to the results of the large-scale survey on women’s health and family status by the Belarusian National Statistical Committee.

Belarus and Uzbekistan have approved a tourism cooperation roadmap through 2028, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Union of the Tourism Industry of Belarus.

Belarusian builders have commissioned the Sozvezdie – Suzorie multidisciplinary education center in Arzamas, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. The opening ceremony on 1 September was attended by Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Governor Gleb Nikitin and Arzamas Mayor Aleksandr Shchelokov, the press service of the Belarusian diplomatic mission told BelTA.

Vadim Makhanko, Director General of the Scientific and Practical Center for Potato and Vegetable Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), revealed varieties of domestic potatoes popular among Belarusians in the Vremya Pervogo [Time of the First] project on the First News TV channel, BelTA has learned.

The Polesie State Radioecological Reserve and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) intend to expand cooperation, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told BelTA.

The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are preparing a joint anti-drug strategy for 2026-2030. The draft strategy was presented at the Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states, which was held in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Region as part of Kyrgyzstan’s CSTO chairmanship, the CSTO press service told BelTA.

The first meeting of the expert group to coordinate draft regulations for the interstate program titled CIS Fair was held at the CIS Executive Committee Office in Moscow, BelTA learned from the Economic Cooperation Department of the CIS Executive Committee.