The Minsk Automobile Plant has won a tender for the supply of 20 buses to the Mostransavto State Unitary Enterprise for Road Passenger Transport of the Moscow Region. 10 MAZ 206 buses and 10 MAZ 226 buses will soon be used in the cities of the Moscow Region.
03.09.2013
A joint Belarusian and Kazakhstani sci-tech tendering invitation has attracted 111 submissions. Amongst these are 35 applications by the State Committee for Science and Technology and 76 from the Committee for Science of the Education and Science Ministry of Kazakhstan. This was announced by Igor Voitov, the Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, at a meeting of the Belarus and Kazakhstan Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation.
03.09.2013
The Belarusian Investigative Committee has accused Suleiman Kerimov, a shareholder in the OJSC Uralkali, in the criminal case against the executives of the CJSC Belarusian Potash Company. BELTA has been told this by the Information and Public Relations Department of the Investigative Committee of Belarus.
03.09.2013
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Belarus reports that about 60 representatives of the Belarusian business and academic communities will visit Mongolia.
03.09.2013
Recently a delegation from the business community of the Mogilev Region, led by Victor Nekrashevich, the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, took part in the Svenskaya Agricultural Fair, at the personal invitation of Nikolay Denin, the Governor of the Bryansk Region.
02.09.2013
The Egmont Group has presented an international diploma to the Financial Monitoring Department of the State Control Committee of Belarus for its work in uncovering a money laundering scheme.
02.09.2013
A memorandum of cooperation between farmers from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine has been signed in St. Petersburg.
02.09.2013
Russia is not indifferent to world geopolitics and, in particular, to the national security situation in the former Soviet territories.
02.09.2013
Throughout history, each nation has faced challenges which guide its further development. Today the key task for Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians is the preservation and strengthening their historical traditions, culture and national values.
02.09.2013
The classification into First, Second and Third World countries is no longer relevant. Countries which are now free from colonial rule are developing so dynamically that they are even ahead of the largest players in the world arena in many respects. Therefore, countries with an open export-oriented economy, such as Belarus, are interested in strengthening cooperation with young and promising countries.
02.09.2013
’Union’ Radio magazine: An interview by Dmitry Nechaenko with Elena Ovcharenko the Chief Editor of the magazine “Union State” and Head of the press service of the Secretary of the Union State.
02.09.2013
The trade in agricultural products between Belarus and Kazakhstan has soared by more than 10 times over the past three years. This was announced today at the 10th session of the Belarusian and Kazakhstani Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation, held in Grodno.
30.08.2013
Representatives of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus have told BELTA that a team of Russian army officers has arrived in Minsk in order to take part in the preparations for the ‘West 2013’ exercise.
30.08.2013
The press service of the Belarusian government has told BELTA that the concepts of the draft social and economic development forecast and the draft state budget of Belarus for 2014 will be discussed today at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Mikhail Myasnikovich, the Prime Minister of Belarus.
30.08.2013
Between 16 - 25 August the ‘The Union State 21st Century Young Talent’ international festival of master classes was held in Moscow. Students of music and, art schools and vocational schools and colleges from across Russia and the CIS countries took part in the festival.
30.08.2013
Yury Zhadobin, the Minister of Defence of Belarus, has told journalists that Belarus has invited foreign observers from Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine and Poland, as well as representatives of the military and diplomatic corps of foreign countries accredited at the Belarusian Defence Ministry, to attend the active phase of the ‘West 2013’ exercise.
30.08.2013
On Thursday 29 August 2013 Grigory Rapota, the Secretary of the Union State, visited Minsk.
28.08.2013
In 2012 Russia was second in Europe for the number of apartments built. The newspaper Vedomosti has a report on the results of the “Real Estate Index” research conducted by Deloitte using data from the statistics services of 12 European countries and Russia.
28.08.2013
The Belarusian Investigative Committee has reported that criminal charges have been brought against several executives of the ZAO Belarusian Potash Company who had abused their official powers for personal gain over a long period. The abuse had resulted in considerable economic and reputational damage to OAO Belaruskali and the joint Russian and Belarusian company, CJSC Belarusian Potash Company. Pavel Traulko, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee commented on the situation in an interview with a BELTA correspondent.
28.08.2013
Over 50,000 people have now been affected by devastating floods in the far east of Russia.
28.08.2013