Polotsk Regional Executive Committee

The CIS ministerial consultations on the topic "On cooperation within the CIS in 2023" were held at the CIS headquarters in Minsk on 7-8 February, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

The amount of material damage for Belarus from the Nazi atrocities during the Great Patriotic War is estimated at least at $2.3 trillion, Belarus' Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said in an interview to Belarus 1 TV Channel, BelTA has learned.

Participnats in the St Petersburg Labor Forum are set to discuss the ways to regulate migration processes in the CIS, BelTA learned from the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.

More than 5,655 Ukrainian nationals have arrived in Belarus since 1 January 2023, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus.

The next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will take place in Russia's Sochi on 7-9 June, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich told the media following the session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Almaty on 3 February, BelTA has learned.

Negotiations are underway to launch regular flights between Cairo and Minsk, Director of the Aviation Department Artyom Sikorsky said at the final meeting of the board that was also attended by Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Avramenko, BelTA learned from the press service of the Transport and Communications Ministry.

We have set the date for one of the five new events of the Union State - the forum "Russia and Belarus: Shared History, Shared Destiny", Director of the Institute of History at the National Academy of Sciences Vadim Lakiza said during the Moscow-Minsk videoconference "Joint activities of Belarus and Russia to perpetuate the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland", BelTA has learned.

The enterprises affiliated with the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom are gradually tapping into the African markets, BelTA learned from the Bellesbumprom's press service.

The Belarus-Zimbabwe business forum opened in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian Transport and Communications Minister Aleksei Avramenko met with Deputy Chairman of the Government of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of Russia Igor Zotov to discuss issues of shipbuilding, logistics, restoration of railway and air services with Nizhny Novgorod, BelTA learned from the press service of the ministry.