Russia and Belarus held joint airborne drills in Brest
A joint tactical drill of Russian and Belarusian Airborne Troops has come to an end near the city of Brest, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. During the exercise, servicemen practiced training and combat tasks and exchanged experience, the statement said. The participants of the drills were given a number of complex tasks, including in adverse weather conditions and on unknown terrain. Overall, the maneuvers involved over 900...
Russia’s Q4 2016 oil supplies to Belarus will total 5 mln tonnes
Russia’s supplies of crude oil to Belarus will be increased to 5 mln tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2016, Transneft official representative Igor Demin said Friday. “The plan is to deliver 5 mln tonnes via the Druzhba oil pipeline to Mozyr and Naftan refineries as defined in the Russian-Belarusian protocol in the fourth quarter (2.6 mln tonnes and 2.4 mln tonnes, respectively),” Demin said. On October 10, it was agreed...
Belarusian who carried Russian flag at Paralympics will be presented with Moscow apartment
Representative of the Belarusian Ministry of Sports and Tourism Andrey Fomochkin who carried the Russian flag at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will receive an apartment as a gift, Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today. Zakharova said her acquaintance called her and told her about his friend who wanted to make such a present to Fomochkin as a sign of...
Belarus-Russia gas price talks underway
Minsk and Moscow are pursuing talks on the price for natural gas supplies to Belarus, Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of Belarus Vladislav Sychevich told TASS Friday. “The negotiation process regarding the gas price issue is underway,” the official representative of the Council of Ministers said, refusing to give his comment on the media report about preliminary settlement of a new price setting scheme for Russian...
521 candidates to run for seats at Belarus parliament
Belarusian local elections commissions have registered 521 candidates for participation in upcoming parliamentary elections, where they will run for 110 seats at the House of Representatives (the lower house) of the National Assembly, head of the country’s Central Elections Commission Lidiya Yermoshina told TASS today. “We have registered 521 candidates, 93 candidates were rejected and 16 refused from taking part in the...
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