In January-August 2024 the Belarusian nuclear power plant generated 11.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity or as much as it did in the entire last year. Belarusian Energy Minister Aleksei Kushnarenko mentioned the figure as he met with workers of the cogeneration plant No.5 branch of the Minsk Oblast electric company Minskenergo, the Energy Ministry press service told BelTA. As part of an awareness-raising day Aleksei Kushnarenko made a speech on the topic “We will stay...

The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) has facilitated the completion of the first few deals upon applications, which had been automatically formed using information from a database of electronic passports of commodities (ePASS), the BUCE press service told BelTA. The Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange enabled the option to create applications to buy and sell industrial goods and consumer goods using Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) codes in late August as a...

According to preliminary data, Belarus’ international reserve assets totaled the equivalent of $8,697.1 million as of 1 September 2024, BelTA learned from the website of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB). The country’s gold and foreign currency reserves went up by $165.1 million (or 1.9%) in August 2024 after rising by $173.5 million (2%) in July 2024. Foreign currency assets and monetary gold make the largest share in the structure of international reserve...

Kazakhstan and Belarus are key, strategic allies and partners, which cooperate in various areas. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Timur Zhaxylykov made the relevant statement during a roundtable session held to discuss the latest address by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the people of Kazakhstan, BelTA has learned. Timur Zhaxylykov said: “Kazakhstan and Belarus are key, strategic allies and partners. Our cooperation develops very...

Over 260,000 people, including 56,000 foreign tourists, have visited the specially protected natural areas of Belarus this year, Belarusian First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Aleksandr Korbut told a press conference on eco-tourism in Belarus, BelTA has learned. The growing interest in the country’s specially protected areas has been recorded both among Belarusian and foreign tourists. The first deputy minister added that the territories with...