MINSK, 5 October (BelTA) – Russia's lowcost airline Pobeda is set to launch flights from Moscow to Minsk, BelTA learned from the website of the air carrier. Daily flights will kick off on 28 October from Vnukovo international airport in Moscow. Since 9 June Pobeda has been operating flights to Minsk from St. Petersburg three times a week.

MINSK, 4 October – Italian business is interested in developing business and cultural relations with Belarus amid sanctions, President of Casa Italiana Company Simone Trasarti told the media on 4 October, has learned. “The topic of sanctions and relations between our countries is the main issue of today's meeting. However, our goal and mission is to confirm the friendship between the Italian and Belarusian peoples. We believe that no one needs sanctions, as it badly affects the...

MINSK, 3 October – Almost 10,000 foreigners used the visa waiver to visit Belarus over past week, learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. From 26 September to 3 October Belarus hosted 9,263 visa-waiver arrivals: 1,724 citizens and 637 non-citizens of Latvia, 6,014 and 888 citizens of Lithuania and Poland, respectively. All in all, Belarus welcomed 264,584 foreign visitors as part of the visa waiver program: 169,355 citizens of Lithuania, 65,739 citizens and 20,154...

MINSK, 30 September - The extensive way of trade development through increasing the supply of traditional groups of goods is outdated. We need cooperation projects today, Belarusian Forestry Minister Aleksandr Kulik said at a session of the intergovernmental Belarusian-Armenian commission on trade and economic cooperation in Yerevan, learned from the press service of the Forestry Ministry. Aleksandr Kulik stressed: “The development of cooperation projects guarantees us long-term...

MINSK, 29 September – China remains the second biggest trading partner for Belarus, Valery Mitskevich, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, head of the Belarus-China interparliamentary working group at the National Assembly, said at the online session to mark the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, has learned. “This year, Belarus and China mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. In a...