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The Association of Young Diplomats of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Centre for Marketing and Price Study have launched an essay competition "I Want to Become a Diplomat," BelTA has learned. The contest is running from 22 January to 4 March and is dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the Belarusian diplomatic service.  "If you are under 27, you study at a Belarusian university and have the Belarusian citizenship, are interested in international...

The Russian state corporation Roscosmos has named a new date when the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25 is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) with Belarus’ Marina Vasilevskaya on board, BelTA has learned. In addition to presenting the emblem of the crew of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25 Roscosmos mentioned that the spacecraft is scheduled for launch on 21 March 2024. The crew will include Belarus’ Marina Vasilevskaya (Anastasia Lenkova as backup), the...

Capabilities of Belarusian enterprises will be used as much as possible in the course of creating a new Belarusian-Russian satellite for the remote sensing of Earth, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov told BelTA after Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with top officials of the Council of Ministers on 18 January. The NASB head underlined that the project to launch Belarus’ first remote Earth sensing satellite had been...

The national conference “The first step into science” will be held in Minsk on 24 January, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. More than 200 high school students, teachers and educators from all regions of Belarus will take part in the conference. This will be the first time the forum will be held in this format. At the plenary session, young scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will present reports on promising...

Book, periodicals and illustrative editions of the Great Patriotic War are presented in the National Library of Belarus. The exhibition is timed to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the country from Nazi invaders. The exposition is presented for the first time and belongs to the cycle "The Dawn of Liberation over Belarus". This is a joint project with the National Archives, the aim of which is to show the chronicle of the liberation, demonstrate the importance of this event for...

The Chinese residents want to see the sights of different countries within one tour, for this purpose the Belarus and the Russian Federation are developing a joint program. Russia and Belarus are jointly going to receive tourists from China, combined tours are being developed for this purpose, said the head of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism, Sergei Kovalchuk. He noted that with the help of the tour, two countries in one trip, they will be able to increase the attractiveness of the...