Three customs clearance stations – Kozlovichi, Varshavsky Most, and Mokrany – will be reconstructed in Brest Oblast, BelTA learned from Sergei Yakuta, chief of the Brest branch of the Belarusian customs service. According to the source, reconstruction will increase the throughput capacity of the border crossings. It will make border crossing experience safer and more comfortable. Among other things it will be a boon for the country's transit tourism appeal. In particular,...

A reinforced paratrooper battalion practiced combat actions and special actions as part of a command and staff exercise in the military exercise area Brestsky on 12 September. Foreign military attachés watched the tactical episode of the exercise. According to the scenario of the exercise, militants and so-called self-defense units captured part of the territory of the state. The army was ordered to push away the enemy and restore the country's territorial integrity. Personnel of...

The Belarusian cuisine festival was held in the Niemcewicz estate in the village of Skoki, Brest District on 28 August. The event is held with the aim of preserving, developing and popularizing traditional Belarusian cuisine. The event was organized by the Department of Ideological Work, Culture and Youth Affairs with the assistance of the Brest District Executive Committee Председатель Брестского...

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko toured the Zhuravlinoye farm during his working trip to Pruzhany District on 19 August. Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to the use of mineral fertilizers, since in many respects this is the basis of harvest. The volumes should be maintained next year and gradually increased in the future. About harvest projections This year, farmers expect to harvest about 11 million tonnes of grain, including more than 8 million tonnes of spiked...

Brest is hosting the 11th World Championship among boys and juniors and 7th World Championship among girls and juniors in fire-rescue sport. Source: information agency BelTA

IVANOVO DISTRICT, 10 August (BelTA) – A memorial sign at the burial site of Polish partisans of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko unit who died during the Great Patriotic War was unveiled in Ivanovo District, BelTA has learned. The memorial sign in the shape of a Catholic cross has been installed in the Voshchin forest near the village of Balandichi, in the frontier belt. It was here, near the state border with Ukraine, that six Polish partisans were executed by Ukrainian nationalists in...

About 30 delegations have come to Brest as it celebrates its 1003rd anniversary on 29 and 30 July, BelTA has learned.  Brest is hosting delegations from Poland, Latvia, Slovakia, Germany, Russia's Samara, Kovrov, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Izhevsk, Petrozavodsk, Ryazan, Astrakhan and Malgobek and also representatives of diplomatic missions.  During the official reception Belarus and Russia's Samara signed a winning agreement. Source: information agency BelTA

The first leg of the international road cycling race The Tour of Belarus kicked off in Brest on 13 July. The race went from Brest Fortress to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The Tour of Belarus, also called Belarus' Open Cycling Championship, is a multi-day highway race. This year it features the best cyclists form Belarus Russia and Uzbekistan. Source: information agency BelTA

Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentina Matviyenko met with the participants of the Belarusian-Russian military-patriotic project The Memory Train on 28 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the upper house of the Russian Parliament. Having departed from Brest on 22 June, the project participants have already been to Grodno, Vitebsk and are now in Russia. Valentina Matviyenko noted that The Memory Train shows that the peoples of the...

BREST, 22 June (BelTA) – Amid the unprecedented pressure on Belarus and Russia we learn to better understand our shared past, State Secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Dmitry Mezentsev said during a roundtable in the Brest Fortress Hero memorial complex, BelTA has learned. The roundtable in the Museum of Defense of the Brest Fortress marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and the launch of the book “1941-1945. Belarus - Russia. Partisan...