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Belarus is seeing a reduction in pollutant emissions into the air, Yelena Meleshkova, Deputy Head of Environmental Policy, Science and Information Department at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection said during a press conference, BelTA learned.

Prime Minister Aleksandr Turchin discussed the development of tourism with Russia during a meeting with Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, BelTA learned.

Russia’s St. Petersburg is hosting the CIS Film Days as part of the 6th International Lendoc Film Festival. The event, which will run until 24 August, is organized by Roskino with the support of Russia’s Culture Ministry and the Lendoc film studio, BelTA learned from Roskino.

Representatives of the Belarusian BRSM Youth Union exchanged experience, discussed youth entrepreneurship, and explored potential employment opportunities for Belarusian student teams in Kazakhstan during the SCO Youth Forum in Russia’s Omsk, Press Secretary of the BRSM Central Committee  Yekaterina Lakisova told BelTA.

Diplomats from the Belarusian embassy in Azerbaijan took part in the opening ceremony of a new BELARUSKI store in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, BelTA learned from the Belarusian diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan.

The 3rd international specialized ecological exhibition Ecology Expo in Minsk has brought together 183 exhibitors, Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Sergei Maslyak said on the sidelines of the event, BelTA has learned.

Winners of the Health sports festival for employees of the Information Ministry’s affiliated organizations were announced on 17 August, BelTA has learned. 

Belarusian scientists have appropriate competencies for the country to substitute more imported veterinary drugs with local ones. Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Karanik made the statement after Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko hosted a government conference to discuss the development of biopharmaceutics on 15 August, BelTA has learned.

The primary purpose of the Congress of Small Towns of Belarus’ Grodno Oblast and Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is to enhance the architecture of relations within the Union State, Valentin Semenyako, Chairman of the Standing Commission on State Building, Local Government, and Regulations of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, told the media on 14 August, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian Embassy in India has donated 250 books to the National Library of Belarus, BelTA reports.