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March 7, Minsk. For Orthodox believers, Great Lent begins today - the time of prayers, services, spiritual and bodily feats, which ends with the triumph of the Holy Resurrection of Christ - Easter.Lent is the strictest and longest of the multi-day fasts of the Orthodox Church. It lasts seven weeks and consists of the forty-day fast itself (Fourteen), which personifies the forty-day fast of Jesus C...

Near the metro station "Vostok" in Minsk on the site of the shopping center "Happiness" will open "Vitalur". On February 5, Vitalur registered the supermarket in the trade register at 155/1 Nezalezhnosti Street. On the company’s website, in the column about stores under construction, there is such an address, regarding the object it is said that the opening was planned in January 2......

January 23, Minsk. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food has established premiums on purchase prices for agricultural products purchased from the population in 2023. This is provided for by the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of January 16, 2023 No. 11, officially published on, BelTA informs. The amount of the allowance for 1 kg of cow's milk with a basic fat content supplied to orga...

Specialists of the State Control check large retail chains - both in Minsk and in the regions. They intend to pay special attention to imported goods and the presence of Belarusian ones. Recall that Belarus has been planning to reduce the share of imported goods for several years, but there are problems with this. KGC specifies that the inspectors "will analyze the impact of large retail chains on...

During the day, 1957 patients with COVID-19 were registered in Belarus , 2644 patients were discharged, the Ministry of Health reports in its telegram channel. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 192,361 people have been registered in Belarus with a positive test for COVID-19. 171,901 patients who had previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered. There are 19,......

Moscow and Minsk have agreed on the terms of Russian oil supplies to the oil refineries in Mozyr and Novopolotsk next year. At the same time, Belarus will continue buying raw materials from alternative suppliers by sea. Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said that Belarus had signed contracts for oil supplies in 2......

Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev told Interfax that he intends to sell BTA Bank in Minsk next year. In addition, it turned out that a citizen of Belarus could become a buyer of his Ukrainian bank. BTA Bank, once one of the largest banks in Kazakhstan, found itself in a difficult financial situation due to the machinations of the former owners. A few years ago, the bank passed the banking license ...

The average retirement pension in July, according to the National Statistics Committee, was 472.9 rubles (data for August have not yet been released). The last increase at the moment occurred on July 1. FINANCE.TUT.BY looked at what payments on well-deserved rest residents of neighboring countries receive. The average size of pensions in July was 456.8 rubles, for disability - 4......

Recently, data on mortality in Belarus appeared in the UN system. It turned out that in June 2020, the number of deaths by 3753 cases exceeded last year's figures for the same month. Mortality in the first half of this year broke a five-year record. Neither the Ministry of Health nor Belstat has yet clarified what these mortality data are connected with, moreover, Belstat promised to publish data ...

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as a result of the fire in the workshop, none of the employees of Orsha enterprise were injured. MINSK, 29 August - PionerProdukt. The fire occurred in one of the workshops of JSC "Savushkin Product", located in Orsha, said Sputnik official representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus Vitaly Novitsky. According to the agency, ...

The Belarusian authorities will allocate up to Br46.07 million from the national budget to complete construction and reconstruction of dairy farms in 2020. This follows from the decree № 269 of July 17. The funds will be provided in the form of budget loans to regional budgets from the balances of the national budget, formed on January 1 this year. Brest voblast will receive no more than Br5.15 mi...

July 9, Rosselkhoznadzor abolished temporary restrictions on the supply of beef, produced by some Belarusian enterprises, to Russia. July 6, the movement of beef from Belarus through Russia was resumed, reported the press service of the EEC. The decisions were taken as a result of bilateral negotiations between Belarus and Russia. "Thus, we consider eliminated the barrier related to restrictions o...

Already traditionally, during the events marking the end of the school year, Belarus restricts the sale of alcohol. This year, the celebration of the last calls was canceled, but restrictions on the sale of alcohol have been left. It's true, not everywhere. May 30, in many regional and district centers the sale of alcohol will be limited. Alcohol will not be sold in shops from 8.......

In 2019, according to Deputy Head of the Main Department of Processing Industry, Maria Klimova, 249.8 thousand tons of fatty cheeses were produced (+18.5%), butter production increased by 0.6% to 115.6 thousand tons, while production of dry whey increased by 25.3% to 118.8 thousand tons. At the same time, production of whole-milk products decreased by ......

In Smolensk region the Rosselkhoznadzor Directorate returned to Belarusian consignors more than 33 tons of animal products transported with violations of veterinary requirements. Thus, on February 2 this year in the FPU "Krasnaya Gorka" the Rosselkhoznadzor Directorate in the Bryansk and Smolensk regions prohibited the import into the Russian Federation of two lots of animal products with a total ...

American producers are ready to provide Belarus with 100 per cent oil at competitive prices. This was stated by U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in Minsk after a meeting with Alexander Lukashenko. - The United States wants to help Belarus create its sovereign state, and our energy producers are ready to provide you with the necessary oil at 1......

The Belarusian economy is expected to grow very slowly even if the baseline scenario is implemented. In case of any additional external shocks, we are going into a negative growth zone, said the director of the IPM Research Center, Alexander Chubrik, at the media breakfast "Reforms for 100 billion," organized by the IPM Research Center with the financial support of the EU. The probability of a neg...

Last week we reported that the third plant of Onega group of companies producing chips from raw potatoes was launched near Minsk, in Kolodishi agrarian town. However, within the next year the company will buy raw materials in Russia. Onega" said they had failed to find "points of contact in terms of quality, supplies and volumes" with the Belarusian farmers and collective farms. As it turned out l...

Is it true that all antibiotics are very harmful and it is better to never take them at all? Natalia Zlatous, Moscow . Pharmacologist Oleg Bychkovsky answers : - Definitely it is impossible to say. Antibiotics , fighting pathogenic microbes, really "at the same time" kill the beneficial microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. Many people are allergic to antibiotics ... Of course, you should not ...

Belarus and the Russian Federation want to abandon the use of paper veterinary certificates in mutual trade, said on Tuesday in Minsk the technical director of the Intersectoral Scientific and Practical Center of Identification Systems and Electronic Business Transactions Gennady Volnasy. Manufacturers in the Russian Federation should issue veterinary certificates for animal products in electronic...

Belarus and Pakistan have agreed to increase trade in agricultural products on a mutual basis. This was discussed at the meeting of Ambassador of Belarus to Pakistan Andrei Yermolovich with the Federal Minister of National Food Security and Research of Pakistan, Sahibzada Muhammad Mehbub Sultan, informed BelTA in the Belarusian diplomatic mission. The parties noted the steady growth of mutual supp...

The average salary offered by metropolitan employers for announced vacancies is 563 rubles. Most of the offers from employers are with a salary of 400 to 800 rubles. This was told by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee - Head of the Employment Department of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee Tatyana Kudevich, the Minsk-Novosti agency rep...

The average salary in Belarus in September amounted to 831.3 rubles, Belstat reports. This is 13.1 rubles less than in August. The average salary in Belarus fell for the first time in the last 7 months. In terms of the weighted average dollar rate for September, the average salary was $429 (a month earlier - almost $435). In September, they received an average of 1,137.1 rubles in Minsk, 723.4 rub...

Belarus' debt on state loans provided by Russia amounted to $6.5 billion at the beginning of October. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to information materials for the participation of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in a meeting of the Intergovernmental Council of the EAEU. “As of October 2, 2......

Today, a construction fence was removed at the site of the demolished BelExpo building on Yanka Kupala Street, Minsk resident Andrey Ezerin wrote on Facebook. We found out why we did it. Photos of the dismantling of the fence at the site of the future Arab multifunctional complex gave rise to various opinions in the comments under the post. Some people took this as a sign that there would be no co...