Two activists of the United Civic Party Aliaksandr Stsepanenka and Pavel Jaravik, detained yesterday at Zhdanovichy market for dissemination of leaflets, have been released without charges.
Oil processing plant "Naftan", located in Navapolatsk, has processed 160 thousand tons of Venezuelan oil, shipped from Estonia, for this August. The third oli-tanker with 80 thousand tons of oil is being unloaded at the moment in the Estonian sea-port Muuga, informs The First TV-Channel.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw met with his Gambian counterpart, Mamadou Tangara. The ministers agreed to begin work on several key bilateral agreements that would form a legal basis for cooperation between the two countries. Belarus and The Gambia could cooperate in the development of the West-African country’s industrial and agricultural sectors and its education and technical potential, as well as in the exploration of the country’s natural resources.
The education ministry considers introducing an optional class at schools to teach students the basics of Orthodox Christianity. It has yet to be approved by the National Education Institute but some experts have already expressed concern about a religious subject being added to the school curriculum.
Non-governmental Belarusian-language newspaper Nasha Niva will sue the Ministry of Information of Belarus. Recently, the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus has taken to consider both complaints of the newspaper on the invalidation of two July's notices of the Ministry of Information issued to the newspaper.
The Council of Ministers has adopted the Strategy for the Development of the Energy Potential of the Republic of Belarus for the period until the end of 2020, which says that experts have found it expedient to use the Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Yuzhne, the Latvian port of Ventspils and Estonia's Tallinn as transshipment points for oil deliveries from Venezuela, Azerbaijan and Persian Gulf countries.
Belarus is ready to switch "calmly and business-like" to new conditions of work with Russia. According to him, these conditions should be "fair and not discriminatory, as it is with oil products duties not applied towards Kazakhstan".
Belarus is interested in mining mineral resources in Gambia, said Foreign Minister of Belarus Syarhei Martynaw after signing a memorandum of understanding between the Belarusian Foreign Ministry and Gambia's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad. The Belarusian side is also interested in developing the industry, agriculture, technical and educational potential of Gambia.
Laimonas Bankauskas, chief of the Vilnius police department’s mounted police unit who was arrested last week in Belarus over a drug find, has been released. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite called on the Belarusian authorities to ensure a "prompt and impartial" investigation of the case.
Wind farms with a total capacity of 300MW could be built in Belarus in 2011-2015, reads the energy strategy of the Republic of Belarus through 2020. The text of the document approved by Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 1180 is available at the national legal portal.
Two activists of the United Civic Party Aliaksandr Stsepanenka and Pavel Jaravik, detained yesterday at Zhdanovichy market for dissemination of leaflets, have been released without charges.
Oil processing plant "Naftan", located in Navapolatsk, has processed 160 thousand tons of Venezuelan oil, shipped from Estonia, for this August. The third oli-tanker with 80 thousand tons of oil is being unloaded at the moment in the Estonian sea-port Muuga, informs The First TV-Channel.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhey Martynaw met with his Gambian counterpart, Mamadou Tangara. The ministers agreed to begin work on several key bilateral agreements that would form a legal basis for cooperation between the two countries. Belarus and The Gambia could cooperate in the development of the West-African country’s industrial and agricultural sectors and its education and technical potential, as well as in the exploration of the country’s natural resources.
The education ministry considers introducing an optional class at schools to teach students the basics of Orthodox Christianity. It has yet to be approved by the National Education Institute but some experts have already expressed concern about a religious subject being added to the school curriculum.
Non-governmental Belarusian-language newspaper Nasha Niva will sue the Ministry of Information of Belarus. Recently, the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus has taken to consider both complaints of the newspaper on the invalidation of two July's notices of the Ministry of Information issued to the newspaper.
Belarus is ready to switch "calmly and business-like" to new conditions of work with Russia. According to him, these conditions should be "fair and not discriminatory, as it is with oil products duties not applied towards Kazakhstan".
Belarus is interested in mining mineral resources in Gambia, said Foreign Minister of Belarus Syarhei Martynaw after signing a memorandum of understanding between the Belarusian Foreign Ministry and Gambia's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad. The Belarusian side is also interested in developing the industry, agriculture, technical and educational potential of Gambia.
Laimonas Bankauskas, chief of the Vilnius police department’s mounted police unit who was arrested last week in Belarus over a drug find, has been released. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite called on the Belarusian authorities to ensure a "prompt and impartial" investigation of the case.
Wind farms with a total capacity of 300MW could be built in Belarus in 2011-2015, reads the energy strategy of the Republic of Belarus through 2020. The text of the document approved by Council of Ministers’ Resolution No. 1180 is available at the national legal portal.
