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The slogan of the World Youth Festival was Let's start the future together!. This suggests that all participants of this large-scale event had the opportunity to show themselves, Tatiana Minchenko, Deputy Head of the Youth Affairs Department with the Directorate of Educational Work and Youth Policy at the Education Ministry, deputy head of the Belarusian delegation to Sochi, said at a press conference in BelTA’s press center to discuss the results of the Belarusian delegation's visit to...

A comprehensive test of territorial defense command and control bodies is in progress in Gomel Oblast, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry told BelTA. Chief of the General Staff, First Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus, Major-General Viktor Gulevich handed the relevant executive order to Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Ivan Krupko. The executive order authorized the test of people’s militia. People’s militia is a component of Belarus’ territorial...

The nomination of candidates for delegates to the Belarusian People’s Congress is beginning on 12 March, BelTA has learned. Prospective delegates are nominated by organizational structures from the regions and the city of Minsk and are elected by the governing bodies of civil society entities from among members of these entities (they should be members of this civil society entity). There should be delegates from each region and the city of Minsk. Prospective delegates to the Belarusian...

Director of the Tourism Department of the Sports and Tourism Ministry Irina Voronovich told BelTA’s The Nation Speaks project about the state of things in the domestic tourism. “Belarusians are discovering those places in the country that they have never considered visiting. Our regions are working to promote local attractions. We have launched pilot projects. Each region has chosen some distinguishing feature that can become its trademark and attract tourists,” said Irina...

The main crew and the backup crew of the manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25, which includes two women from Belarus, have arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome before their flight to the International Space Station (ISS), the Roscosmos press service told BelTA.  Representatives of the technical administration and the state commission welcomed the crews at the Krainy airfield. Commanding officers of the crews told the administration they are ready for the flight and for taking over the Soyuz...

A delegation of Belarus’ Armed Forces is taking part in a seminar on battlefield medicine for Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in Islamabad, Pakistan, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Defense Ministry. Participants of the seminar are expected to discuss medical support for military personnel and the evacuation of people with various injuries.  Participants of the seminar will also share the best practices in the field of providing medical aid to military personnel...