Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

The nationwide New Year's charity campaign Our Children has officially launched in Belarus. The main venue for the kick-off event was the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble, BelTA has learned.

Belarus’ export of tourism services increased by 44.2% in January-October 2025, Yekaterina Goncharenok, deputy director, head of planning and tourism activities office of the Tourism Department at the Sports and Tourism Ministry, told a press conference in BelTA’s press center on 12 December.

In keeping with tradition, the national charity campaign Our Children is set to reach more than a million children this year, said Viktor Dovnar, Head of the Directorate for Ideological and Educational Work and Youth Policy at the Education Ministry, BelTA has learned.

The My Belarus exhibition, showcasing the achievements of sovereign Belarus, will be held at the Minsk International Exhibition Center from 19 December to 23 February, BelTA learned from the BelExpo National Exhibition Center.

The Union State forum on ways of protecting and preserving historical memory will be held in Brest in 2026, Speaker of Russia's State Duma, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Vyacheslav Volodin told the media following the session of the Parliamentary Assembly in Moscow on 9 December, BelTA has learned.

A ceremony to consecrate the memorial stone installed at the site of the Church of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (17th century) was held near the library of Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) as part of the national Botkin Readings, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian airline Belavia will resume regular flights from Minsk to Tel Aviv, Israel on 8 January 2026, the airline’s press service told BelTA.

A delegation from Brest Oblast will make a trip to China, BelTA learned from the Brest Oblast Executive Committee.

During a regular meeting of the third session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the eighth convocation that took place on 3 December, the House of Representatives completed its consideration of the 2026 tax and budget bills, BelTA has learned.

During the New Year holidays, Belarusian health resorts will be operating at 100% capacity, Director of the National Center for Recuperation and Health Resort Treatment Gennady Bolbatovsky told the media, BelTA has learned.