“I am no longer the last dictator of Europe. There are dictators a little worse than me, aren't there? I have already become the lesser of two evils,” Alexander Lukashenko said with a laugh in an interview with Bloomberg. Journalists Alexander Kudritsky and Ryan Chilcote believe that in the interview...
The average Belarusian has become approximately 15 years older over 2,9 years, with women “aging” by 3,1 years and men by 2,7 years. As a result of the aging population, the average age of the republic's residents is increasing. At the beginning of 2015, the average age of men...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that his country would never become part of Russia and the Russian authorities did not directly offer him such an option. “And today the Russian leadership has never directly raised the question that Belarus should be part of Russia...
Gomel residents call the small building with the sign “Hatikva” nothing more than a “Jewish kindergarten.” It is located in the very center of Gomel - in a quiet courtyard behind the busy Lenin Avenue. In fact, this is not a kindergarten, but a city national educational and pedagogical complex: there are three...
The stopping of the MAZ conveyor took place in an atmosphere of secrecy - information about this appeared in the media only a few days before the event, and workers, not officials, told about the decision of the plant's management. In the Ministry of Industry (it supervises MAZ on behalf of the owner - the state), when they heard questions about MAZ, they simply hung up. While the administration of the enterprise is functioning ...
Another business lounge was opened at the Minsk National Airport today. Its area is almost 1200 square meters. Passengers will be able to get there by paying 25 euros for three hours, or if the airline ticket already pays for such a service. The business lounge, open to passengers, will serve…
The Public Chamber of Russia states that the adoption in Russia of a law on the “illegal” transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 will create a precedent for territorial claims against other CIS countries, primarily Kazakhstan and Belarus. A member of the Public Chamber commission said this...
Over the past five days, “five to six patients” with retinal damage after observing a solar eclipse have contacted the ophthalmological consultative and diagnostic department of the Minsk Clinical Hospital. “Some have more pronounced changes, some have less, but there are,” said the head of the department, Victoria Witt. -...
The action takes place within the framework of the implementation of the National Program of Demographic Security of the Republic of Belarus for 2011-2015. The purpose of the action is to attract wide public attention to family issues, increase the birth rate, reduce the number of induced abortions, and form a positive attitude towards family values among young people. Within ...
It turns out that the majority of Belarusian students sent outside Belarus to study learn foreign languages there. Only a few are trained in advanced technologies. This is evidenced by the data presented in the study “Analysis of the state of internationalization of higher education in the Republic of Belarus”, which was prepared by the Public Bologna Committee on...