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As of 21 September, Russia lifted all restrictions on flights to Belarus and resumed them to Spain, Iraq, Kenya and Slovakia. The decision was made earlier by the Operational Headquarters on Preventing COVID-19 in Russia, TASS reports.

Belarusian MPs as members of the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, which is a part of the CIS observation mission, have started monitoring the elections to the Russian State Duma on 17 September, BelTA has learned.

Objectives of Belarus as a welfare state can be undermined by external pressure, Belarusian Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich said on the sidelines of the international conference “Impact of Global Economic Challenges on Social and Labor Rights” which is underway in Minsk on 13-14 September.

The two-day international conference “Continuous education in mathematics and natural sciences: state and development prospects” will kick off at Belarusian State University (BSU) on 12 July.

The Agriculture and Food Ministry has identified promising and important investment projects to be implemented within the framework of the state program "Agrarian Business" for 2021-2025, BelTA learned from the ministry's website.

As of 1 July 2021, 100,930 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, 18,518 of which were opened under the new program for 2020-2024, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry.