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The Belarusian tractor maker MTZ ships about a hundred BELARUS tractors to Russia’s Yaroslavl Oblast every year, BelTA learned from the MTZ press service.  MTZ hosted a delegation of Yaroslavl Oblast headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Khokhryakov. The guests toured the tractor assembly line, the exhibition of tractors BELARUS and the MTZ museum. During the negotiations the parties discussed the ways of intensifying supplies of BELARUS tractors to Yaroslavl Oblast. The guests...

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial, BelTA has learned. The ministers laid flowers and observed a minute of silence to honor the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland. The legendary citadel over the Bug is a symbol of courage for the peoples of Belarus and Russia. The Brest Fortress was the first to face the Nazi invaders in June 1941 and repulse them....

The decision to supply anti-personnel mines to Ukraine is a violation of the balance of power. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Pavel Muraveiko told reporters, BelTA has learned. An international conference "Applied aspects of scientific activities in defense and security of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization" opened in Minsk on 20 November. "This is not the first time that Minsk has hosted the...

The program for the next five years will be outlined in the pre-election program of the president, Head of the Belarus President Administration Dmitry Krutoi told the media, BelTA has learned.Following the first meeting of the Presidium of the Belarusian People's Congress, Dmitry Krutoi said: "At the next meetings, the Presidium will mainly focus on the preparation of the program of social and economic development of the country for the next five-year period. This program will be outlined...

Overall performance of the residents of the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park Great Stone has been steadily improving, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Economy Ministry. To date, more than 50 residents have already started their economic activities in the park. A number of them have reached a full run thanks to a high demand from domestic and foreign consumers as most manufactured products have no analogues. The Great Stone Industrial Park residents show good...

Ways of increasing trade between Belarus and Russia’s Kostroma Oblast were discussed at a meeting between Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik and Governor of the Russian region Sergei Sitnikov on 15 November. The talks were also attended by Belarusian Information Minister Marat Markov, who is the Belarusian government’s point man for cooperation with Kostroma Oblast of Russia, BelTA has learned. Ambassador Aleksandr Rogozhnik noted that trade between Belarus and...