Krupsky district executive committee

Today, over one hundred student business companies employ more than a thousand schoolchildren in schools and colleges in Minsk Oblast.

Minsk has made it to the top three most manly cities of the CIS, BelTA learned from the analytics agency TurStat.

Some 374 renal transplants (including 11 transplants for children) and 52 heart transplants were carried out in Belarus in 2019, Belarusian Healthcare Minister Vladimir Karanik said at a final board of the Healthcare Ministry on 25 February, BelTA has learned.

Belarus will take part in the Latvian Book Fair 2020, BelTA learned from the Belarusian book retailer Belkniga.

Minsk Oblast and Belarus tourism and cultural products center send humanitarian aid to China's Chongqing, BelTA learned from the press service of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee.

The ecological market, which is being built in the village of Valeryanovo, Minsk region, is scheduled to open in the first half of this year, said Alexander Turchin, Chairman of the Ministry of Oblast Executive Committee, at a meeting today on the development of farms in the region, BelTA was told in the Ministry of Executive Committee.

Bilateral negotiations on Belarus' accession to the World Trade Organization should be completed by June. Accession to the organization is possible in late 2020 - early 2021, Belarus' First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Yeudachenka told reporters, BelTA has learned.

The regional "Zen native mothers" will be held on February 21 in the Smolevichi city youth center, BelTA was told in the regional committee of the NGO "Belarusian Republican Youth Union".

Belarus and Egypt have decided to prioritize joint ventures, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko told journalists after the talks with Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, BelTA has learned.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko counts on an agreement on future cooperation with Rosneft. The head of state made the statement as he met with Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board of the Russian oil company Rosneft Igor Sechin on 18 February, BelTA has learned.