MINSK, 4 May (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has sent a welcoming note to the guests and participants of the 15th international specialized exhibition, Mass Media in Belarus, BelTA learnt from the press service of the head of state. “The print journalism is called the fourth estate for a reason; it plays a key role in shaping the public opinion. Therefore, integrity and objectivity of each journalist is an important factor of the social and political stability of the...

GRODNO, 29 April (BelTA) – It is time for serious structural reforms of the Belarusian economy, said Vice Premier of Belarus Anatoly Tozik at a seminar of heads of nationwide coverage media on 29 April. “I believe our economy cannot continue successfully developing and requires serious structural reforms,” said the Vice Premier. In his words, it is necessary to implement major economic reforms in Belarus while preserving and enhancing the present political system. “My experience of...

ASHGABAT, 28 April (BelTA) - Belarus and Turkmenistan are building relations on the principles of strategic partnership and alliance, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. “I believe it is extremely important that in recent years our countries have been developing mutually beneficial and equal relations. We have reached a level of strategic partnership and, more importantly, alliance,” said Alexander Lukashenko. He...

MINSK, 27 April (BelTA) – Belarusian nonwoven materials AquaSpan and Spanbel by the Svetlogorsk-based Khimvolokno have caught attention of large European processers and traders, BelTA learnt from the company. The company said that in April Geneva (Switzerland) hosted the world’s leading nonwovens exhibition, INDEX 11. This triennial occasion is considered to be exhibition No. 1 for nonwovens and supporting industries. Among the regular visitors of the expo are people engaged in such...

NAROVLYA, 26 April (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko laid a flower basket at the abandoned villages’ monument in Narovlya, BelTA has learned. The monument was built in 1994. It consists of three steles on a low pedestal. The first stele symbolizes a block house where people lived before the catastrophe. The central hand-shaped stele symbolizes Chernobyl clean-up workers’ hands. The third stele consists of three picked spires which mark eternal memory of the Chernobyl...

NAROVLYA DISTRICT, 26 April (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has issued an instruction to make a decision on the lands in Gomel Oblast and Mogilev Oblast that can be returned for use, including tourism and farming operations. The proposal to resume of the use of the previously abandoned farmlands for tourism and farming operations was voiced when the Belarusian head of state visited the Polesie state radiation ecology reserve in Narovlya District on 26 April. Alexander...

NAROVLYA, 26 April (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko demanded that Belarusian scientists are impartial in what concerns the issues of recovery of the Chernobyl-affected areas. “I want just one thing from the scientists: to be impartial and objective. We need an absolutely transparent picture here,” the head of state said when on the tour around Narovlya District on 26 April. Alexander Lukashenko stressed that a lot depends on scientists in the issues of the...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – Today the CIS countries are commemorating those perished in the nuclear and radiation accidents. This day has been marked since 2004. Belarus marks the nationwide Day of Mourning on 26 April. 25 years ago, on 26 April 1986, an explosion rocked Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant located in Ukraine in a close vicinity to the Belarusian border. The blast has left contaminated an estimated 46,500 square kilometers of the Belarusian territory (20% of...

MINSK, 25 April (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko lit a candle in the Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker in Petrikov, Gomel Oblast, on 24 April, BelTA has learnt. “I have a unique opportunity to greet you at your home. Polesie is my most lovely place,” Alexander Lukashenko said addressing those who came to mark this great feast. The President noted that recently a lot has been said about Polesie revival. “Last year the revival of this place was completed. I am...

KHOINIKI, 22 April (BelTA) – Italian investors are keen to create small businesses to manufacture and process agricultural products in the regions affected by the Chernobyl disaster, BelTA learnt from deputy chairman of the House of Representatives’ Permanent Commission for Education, Culture, Science and Technical Progress Alexander Shatko. He was among participants of the roundtable conference, 25 Years after Chernobyl, Development Prospects of Belarusian Towns, in Khoiniki. The first...