Olympic Day celebrations will be held across 40 venues of the Olympic Sports Complex in Minsk on 24 August, Head of the Olympic movement development at Belarus’ National Olympic Committee (NOC) Dmitry Dovgalenok told reporters, BelTA has learned.
He noted that this is the first time Belarus will mark this event in August. The celebrations will feature 45 sports federations. The opening ceremony will be attended by senior officials of the National Olympic Committee, Sports and Tourism...
On 13 August Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 306 on the construction of a football stadium and Decree No. 307 on the construction of a swimming pool in line with international standards, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.
These projects aim to enable Minsk to host top-level competitions and encourage the public to take up sports.
The decrees are based on respective Belarus-China intergovernmental agreements on...
Belarusian agrarians have already harvested 2.127 million tonnes of grain, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
As for 26 July, Brest Oblast harvested 722,700 tonnes of grain, Minsk Oblast – 446,300 tonnes, Grodno Oblast – 457,900 tonnes, Gomel Oblast – 264,400 tonnes, Mogilev Oblast – 152,800 tonnes. Vitebsk Oblast, which joined the harvest campaign last, has cropped 83,400 tonnes of grain.
Cereal and leguminous crops (except for corn, buckwheat...
The construction of the Nezhinsky mining and processing factory will be finished on schedule, BelTA learned from Chairman of the Board of Directors of IOOO Slavkaliy Mikhail Gutseriyev on 15 July after a session of the construction staff.
The chairman said: “We are staying on schedule and will finish [construction work at the Nezhinsky mining and processing factory] on time, as specified by the contract. We were behind in matters of standards and technical documentation, but we’ve...