Section: BelTA (Belarus)
BRCS Vitebsk Office to give 240 clothing vouchers to Ukrainian refugees
The International Committee and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies made a decision to provide financial assistance to Belarus in light of the inflow of refugees from Ukraine. The money was distributed among the Belarusian regions according to the number of Ukrainians living in their territory. Vitebsk Oblast will...
Christmas charity event in Minsk brings together children from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine
The Christmas charity event has been held in Belarus since 1994. More than 44,000 children from the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian regions which were hit by the Chernobyl accident have taken part in the campaign so far. This year’s forum has an interesting program. Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel, Patriarchal Exarch of All...
Grodno to host Kalozha Orthodox church music festival 11-14 February
All in all, the event will gather around 20 Belarusian and foreign participants. This year Grodno will welcome companies from Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Russia. For the first time the list of participants will feature two Moldovan groups, one performing church music and the other secular music. The competition program features...
Belarus president clarifies peacekeeping intentions
The head of state spoke about the conflict in Ukraine: “It is not someone else’s conflict. It is a conflict at our door”. “We should do our best to tune down the conflict or eliminate it. If we can pull it off, we, the men, and I as the commander in chief, we will do it,” continued Alexander Lukashenko. “We don’t ask for it, we...
Contact group on Ukraine will not meet in Minsk on 26 December
The meeting of the contact group on Ukraine that was supposed to take place in Minsk on 26 December, has been cancelled. …read more Source:...
Business community ready to help improve economic situation in Belarus
According to Alexander Shvets, the current economic situation is an absolutely natural consequence of the external factors that have affected exporters most of all. “Understanding and taking into account external factors caused primarily by the unstable development of the economies of our key partners — Russia and Ukraine — the business community...
Contact group on Ukraine starts negotiations in Minsk
The Dipservice Hall in Minsk’s downtown has been chosen for the meeting on 24 December. It had been decided that mass media will not be able to access the negotiations. There are four items on the agenda: the special status of the Donbass region, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, exchange of prisoners of war and the delivery of humanitarian...
Participants of Ukraine-Russia-OSCE contact group arrive in Minsk
The first meeting of the contact group involving representatives of the OSCE, Ukraine, Russia, and the self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk took place near Minsk on 31 July after Ukraine President Piotr Poroshenko contacted Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with the relevant request. …read more Source:...
Contact group on Ukraine to meet in Minsk on 24 December
According to the source, the negotiations on 24 December will be closed to mass media. “In accordance with the decision of the contact group mass media will not be present during the talks on 24 December,” said the press secretary. The place and the time of the meeting have not been disclosed yet. …read more Source:...
CSTO leaders call for peace in Ukraine
The presidents of the CSTO member states deem it necessary to resume negotiations between all the parties to the conflict and to take urgent measures to overcome the consequences of the humanitarian catastrophe. …read more Source:...
