More than 18,000 polling stations will be established in Belarus for the elections to the local councils of deputies due in 2018, BelTA learned from the website of the Belarusian Central Election Commission. In particular, 2,962 polling stations will be set up in Brest Oblast, 3,112 in Vitebsk Oblast, 3,584 in Gomel Oblast, 2,389 in Grodno Oblast, 3,451 in Minsk Oblast, 2,556 in Mogilev Oblast, and 57 in Minsk. The total amount of polling stations in Belarus will reach 18,111. This...

Foreign tourists are attracted by Belarusian nature, culture and the beauty of its cities, founder of the Club of Hoteliers and Restaurant Keepers of Belarus Margarita Denisova said in an interview to the BelRos TV channel, BelTA has learned. According to Margarita Denisova, the latest data has revealed three priorities in visiting Belarus. These are its nature, culture and beautiful cities. "This is true about all the regions of out country, and this attracts not only Russians, but also...

A new potash mine in Belarus will be built by 2021, BelTA learned from the Belarusian PR agency AGT. Boreholes will be drilled and freezing operations will start at premises of the future Nezhinsky mining and processing factory in October. The potash mine is supposed to be ready by 2021. Mine shafts will be drilled using shaft boring roadheaders. Construction workers are about to finish drilling boreholes about 160m below the surface in order to begin freezing the rock. With this in...

A package of documents on the promotion of entrepreneurship in Belarus will be signed in the near future, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Nikolai Snopkov told BelTA as he met with citizens at the Lyakhovichi District Executive Committee (Brest Oblast). "The decree to develop information and communications technologies (the so-called 'IT decree') will be submitted for signature to the Belarus president in the near future. The whole package of documents on the promotion...

A concept for the integrated management of the Belarusian state border is supposed to be adopted by May 2018, representatives of the State Border Committee of Belarus told BelTA. The first session of the working group in charge of putting together the concept took place at premises of the State Border Committee of Belarus the day before. Experts of the Belarusian border service and the customs service discussed organizational aspects and practical aspects of joint work on the project....