Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:16

COVID-19 vaccinations in Vitebsk Oblast

The COVID-19 vaccination campaign is underway in Vitebsk Oblast. Vaccines have already been administered to more than 13,000 people.

Early spring cereals and leguminous crops (excluding corn, buckwheat, and millet) have been sown on 38.9% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

Fifty alleys and small parks will be laid out in Vitebsk Oblast during the campaign to plant trees and shrubbery timed to the Year of People's Unity.

Friday, 09 April 2021 12:59

Belarus changes borders of three oblasts

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed decree No. 136 “On the administrative and territorial division of Vitebsk Oblast, Gomel Oblast and Mogilev Oblast”, BelTA learned from the press service of the head of state.

Friday, 09 April 2021 12:05

New gym for young athletes in Postavy

A new gym for freestyle wrestlers opened in the Postavy Children's and Youth Sport School on 8 April.

The official visit of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Belarus may give a strong impetus to bilateral cooperation, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with outgoing Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Sangeeta Bahadur on 8 April, BelTA has learned.

A tactical battalion-sized live-fire exercise involving reservists took place in the exercise area of the 51st Guards Artillery Brigade, representatives of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA.

The bill on amending the law on road traffic passed the first reading at a meeting of the fifth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the seventh convocation on 7 April, BelTA has learned.

Applications for the Call for Entrepreneurial Initiatives of the project “Support to Economic Development at the Local Level in the Republic of Belarus” have closed. All in all, the project received 241 applications from 12 pilot districts of Belarus, project's PR specialist Nadezhda Sinelnik told BelTA.

Belarus is mulling over the ways to streamline its network of foreign missions. The issue was on the agenda of the government's session hosted by Belarusian head of state Aleksandr Lukashenko on 6 April, BelTA has learned.