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It is necessary to change approaches to housing provision in the country, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a government meeting, BelTA has learned. “Today we are discussing a very pressing topic that concerns most of the country’s residents. We are experiencing certain difficulties with housing construction, especially subsidized housing. It is not because we cannot build more. Apparently, the mechanisms of providing state support are no longer relevant,” said...

Uzbekistan Airways will increase the frequency  of regular flights from Tashkent to Minsk from 6 April 2024, BelTA learned from the press service of Minsk National Airport. In addition to regular flights on Mondays and Thursdays, the company will launch a flight on Saturdays. All flights connecting the capitals of Belarus and Uzbekistan depart from Minsk at 13.45 and arrive in Tashkent at 20.30. Departure from Tashkent is scheduled at 9.00 and arrival in Minsk at 12.15. All times are...

We will carry out the Belarusian People’s Congress at a high organizational level, the authority of our country will depend on it, State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich told the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned. The nomination of delegates for the Belarusian People’s Congress is currently underway. It is necessary to be vigilant at this stage. “We should expect provocations, and most importantly, we should be ready to respond. Therefore, all the...

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...