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A Mi-26 helicopter carrying rescue workers landed at the Lipki airfield. The helicopter of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry came from Turkey where it was fighting forest fires in mountainous areas, BelTA learned from the ministry's website.

The first Minsk Electro 2021 rally will begin in the mobile vehicles testing area of the Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on 25 September, the academy's press service told BelTA.

Belarus will supply humanitarian aid to Venezuela. The decision is stipulated in Council of Ministers' Decree No.541 of 22 September 2021, officially published on the National Legal Internet Portal on 23 September, BelTA has learned.

The movement towards the Asian market is absolutely timely and in line with global trends, head of a business association Sergei Rakhmanov told reporters on the sidelines of the international expert seminar Belarus' Pivot to Asia, BelTA has learned.

As of 21 September, Russia lifted all restrictions on flights to Belarus and resumed them to Spain, Iraq, Kenya and Slovakia. The decision was made earlier by the Operational Headquarters on Preventing COVID-19 in Russia, TASS reports.

More than 1.8 million people have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko told the ONT TV channel, BelTA informs.

Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko has presented government awards to a number of customs service officers, BelTA has learned.

Russian army units, which took part in the Belarusian-Russian strategic army exercise Zapad 2021, have started leaving Belarus in order to move to their permanent bases in Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry press service told BelTA.