Section: BelTA (Belarus)
Planes leave Minsk Airport in time, flights from Kaliningrad, Kiev delayed
“Flights from Kaliningrad and Kiev (Borispol Airport) have been delayed perhaps due to weather conditions in the airports of those cities. Minsk National Airport is ready to receive aircraft,” said Alexander Karablikov. …read more Source:...
Belarus emphasizes need for peaceful resolution of Ukraine crisis
“Belarus has been making consistent effort to facilitate de-escalation of the conflict as it is genuinely interested in a speedy resolution of the crisis in Ukraine,” the review of Belarus’ foreign policy and the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015 reads. …read more Source:...
Previously unknown texts of Malevich’s speeches discovered in Kiev
“This is a landmark event for the cultural life of Kiev. Up to now, the Kiev period has been the least studied period of Kazimir Malevich’s creative life,” art manager, researcher of the artist’s works Tatyana Filevskaya noted. …read more Source:...
Ukraine imposes additional measures on border with Belarus in connetion with Russia’s ban on transit
Ukraine adopted additional measures and reinforced the checkpoints on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border as Russia introduced a new regime of cargo transit to Kazakhstan (via Belarus). …read more Source:...
Levshunov: The situation in Ukraine will hopefully get stabilized in 2016
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EDB: Economic activity in CIS stabilized in Q3 2015
The economic activity in the CIS countries stabilized in Q3 2015 as its decline slowed in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, reads the CIS Macromonitor published by the Analytical Unit of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). …read more Source:...
Belarusian peace-loving policy credited with removal of sanctions
“Our stance can be welcomed because Belarus has always spoken in favor of peace,” noted the President. “We don’t welcome wars or any conflicts whether that be conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon, Iran. We don’t accept such things. It is our stance.” …read more Source:...
Belarus sets quotas for foreign transport operators for 2016
The number of truck passage permits will stay at the level of this year’s target for Ukraine (28,000 permits), Latvia (11,500), Poland (142,000), the UK (300). Jordan, Ireland, and Lebanon will be given 50 permits each. Cyprus will get 120. …read more Source:...
Procedure to remove restrictions in Belarus-Ukraine trade agreed
According to the source, the new arrangements will take care of the Ukrainian decision to introduce a special import duty as large as 39.2% against a number of Belarusian exports to Ukraine as from 20 January 2016. …read more Source:...
Belarus to assess impact of Russia’s restrictions on Ukrainian goods
Belarus has set up an interagency working group to assess the impact and formulate proposals for the protection of national interests with regard to Russia’s restrictive measures against goods originating from Ukraine. …read more Source:...