Top news for February 21

YESTERDAY

: Lukashenko: This year and the five-year plan aren't just about quality, and
Lukashenko on strengthening the role of base-level executive committee chairmen.

Belarusian biathletes celebrate victories at the Strongest Cup in Raubichi.
Agricultural cooperation.
Belarus and Uganda sign a memorandum of understanding on military-technical cooperation.

The Council of Ministers approved the national action plan .

Ryzhenkov: Representatives of all nationalities in Belarus.
Volfovich: Defenders of the Fatherland Day.
Akulovich: Shanavats' i lyubits' langauge -
Tariff regulation, the pharmaceutical market, and the development of integration. Belarus will join 69 countries

in 2024.
More will be built and commissioned in 2025

, the Ministry of Labor reported.
The crime rate in Belarus reached

TODAY,

February 22-23.

The "Hey-hey! Maslenitsa !" program.

The exhibition "Contemporary Painting of Uzbekistan" will run until February 22 at the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve and will run until March 9. The exhibition "Contemporary Painting of Uzbekistan" will run until February 23 at the Palace of Arts.

The "Cup of the Strongest" will be held in Raubichi until February 23. Biathlon enthusiasts will also enjoy a cultural program, food courts, and various activities.

An exhibition of young artists from Belarus and RUSSIA, "Heirs of the Great Victory," dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, will be on display at the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War until March 20.

The new exhibition project "Fashion. Between Beauty and Coercion" will be on display at the National Center for Contemporary Arts until April 13. Visitors will be able to take part in a themed quest, view installations, and enjoy an interactive photo zone.

TOMORROW

, February 23,

is Defenders of the Fatherland Day and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.

280 years ago, Ivan Evgenievich Starov, a Russian architect and one of the founders of Russian classicism, was born. His works include the Tauride Palace and the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg . He died in 1808.

165 years ago, Georgy Norbitovich Gabrichevsky, a Russian microbiologist, founder of the Russian school of microbiology and one of the organizers of the production of bacteriological preparations in Russia, was born. Together with N.F. Filatov, he introduced serum treatment for diphtheria. He died in 1907.

February 24

105 years ago, Aleksey Leonidovich Andreyev was born. He was a Russian and Belarusian ballet dancer, choreographer, Honored Artist of Russia (1957), and Honored Artist of Belarus (1963). He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1939. He worked at the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater named after S. Kirov. In 1960-1964 and 1971-1973, he was the chief choreographer of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus. He staged the first national ballets, including E. Glebov’s The Dream and G. Wagner’s Light and Shadows, among others. He died in 2004.

90 years ago, Rygor Borodulin (Grigory Ivanovich), People’s Poet of Belarus (1992), was born. His work is characterized by a variety of genres, figurative and stylistic means, vivid metaphors, and a rich linguistic palette. The author of many books of poetry, satire, and collections for children, the poet often turned to the genre of prayer, prayers for the post-Chernobyl era.The survival and revival of the Belarusian nation. Many of the poet's poems have been set to music. He was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize of Belarus (1976) for his poem "Ballad of the Brest Fortress," and the Yanka Kupala State Prize (1976) for his collection "Room" and his book of translations of F. García Lorca's poetry, "The Blue Bells of Granada." He died in 2014.

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