17 October 2018
VITEBSK(BelTA) – A national center on World Trade Organization affairs will be set up in Belarus by 2020, BelTA learned from Maksim Gubsky, supervisor of the UNDP project on assisting the Belarusian government with joining the WTO by enhancing the national institutional capacity and expertise. The WTO affairs center will perform consulting functions, including the analysis of economic consequences of joining the WTO. It will work out recommendations on improving the national laws and will...
10 October 2018
MINSK (BelTA) - Dinamo Stadium in Minsk has been assigned UEFA Category 4, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Football Federation. The Belarusian Football Federation has received notification on the assignment of the maximum category to Dinamo Stadium in accordance with the UEFA Stadium Infrastructure Regulations. This will enable the stadium to host matches of the Nations League, qualifiers of the world and European championships involving national teams and also group...
3 October 2018
MINSK(BelTA) – The European Bird Watching Days, EuroBirdwatch 2018, will be held in Belarus on 6-7 October, BelTA learned from the Belarusian bird conservation organization Akhova Ptushak Batskaushchyny. Millions of birds are now leaving Europe for the winter. The goal of EuroBirdwatch is to get local residents familiar with migrating birds, their nesting needs, problems they encounter along flyways and within wintering areas in the Mediterranean and Africa. To make part of the...
17 October 2018
GOMEL(BelTA) - The Dnieper Basin Council will convene for a meeting during the Forum of Regions of Belarus and Ukraine due in Gomel on 25-26 October, chairman of the Gomel regional committee of natural resources and environmental protection Andrei Sushchevich told the media on 16 October, BelTA has learned. The council will focus on the draft plan of the Dnieper River basin management. “Basin management is a new thing for our country. It is therefore very important to study existing...
3 October 2018
MINSK(BelTA) – Belarus and Ukraine have agreed the program of the forum of regions, which will take place in Gomel on 25-26 October, representatives of the Embassy of Belarus in Ukraine told BelTA. The sides have agreed the concept and the main components of the forum's program. Plans have been made to arrange the seventh session of the Belarusian-Ukrainian business cooperation advisory board and a business matchmaking session on the first day of the forum. Thematic conferences and...
26 September 2018
MINSK (BelTA) – Historians will gather in Gomel on 22-23 November to discuss a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, BelTA learned from Vyacheslav Danilovich, Director of the History Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB).
According to the source, the conference will gather historians from Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan to discuss a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War and the launch of Belarus’...
