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A direct flight will connect Minsk and the Chinese city of Sanya, Hainan Province, BelTA has learned. From January 2024, the Chinese airline will launch a direct flight from the city of Sanya, Hainan Province, to Minsk using an Airbus A330-300 (279 seats in Economy Class and 24 in Business Class). Flights will be operated twice a week (on Tuesdays and Saturdays). The new flight will contribute to the development of tourism, economic and trade relations between the two countries and...

It is important to support the volunteer movement in the CIS, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Moscow on 18 December, BelTA has learned. Roman Golovchenko lauded the practice of declaring thematic years in the CIS to concentrate joint efforts on important topics. The year 2023 was the Year of the Russian Language as a Language of Interethnic Communication in the CIS and logically ended with the agreement to set up the...

The nomination of candidates for deputies has started in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Central Election Commission (CEC). Registered political parties, labor collectives and citizens have the right to nominate candidates for deputies through signature collection. The CEC recalled that persons seeking nomination and registration as parliamentary candidates must be Belarusian citizens, at least 21 years old, permanently living in the Republic of Belarus. To be nominated as candidate...

On 12 December 2023 the Council of Ministers of Belarus passed Resolution No. 869 to terminate the agreement between the government of the Republic of Belarus and the government of Ukraine on cooperation in science and technology. The document was published on the National Legal Internet Portal, BelTA has learned. The resolution terminated the Belarus-Ukraine intergovernmental agreement on sci-tech cooperation that was signed in Kiev on 17 December 1992. The Ministry of Foreign...

Minsk has made it to the 10 best places to travel with friends among Russian visitors in December, BelTA has learned. Trips to the Belarusian capital are booked for an average of three days. According to the Russian hotel and apartment booking service, the rankings also includes St. Petersburg, Moscow, Sochi, Kazan, Yalta, Gelendzhik, Krasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad and Krasnodar. Written by  belta.by

The Belarusian State Pedagogical University and the Northwest Normal University of China signed an additional agreement on cooperation on student exchange programs, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian university. The Northwest Normal University hosted the international forum on pedagogical education “Asia-Europe 2023 and the State and Prospects of Openness of Higher Education of the Past Decade seminar. Rector of the Belarusian State Pedagogical University Aleksandr...