Brest Oblast health resorts are getting certified as travel operators in order to be able to work with visa-free tourists on their own, BelTA learned from the oblast branch of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium Treatment of the Population. Six out of 15 health resorts of Brest Oblast are located in the Brest tourist zone. All of them handle visa-free tourists. Since the start of the year, 55 foreigners took advantage of the visa-free entry to the Brest tourist...

Belarus and Russia will continue dismantling barriers in mutual trade and enabling conditions for equal access to each other's markets, BelTA learned from Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas after a session of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia in Brest on 13 December. Over 20 matters were discussed during the session of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia on 13 December. Results of trade and economic cooperation represented...

Belarus' national sustainable development strategy 2035 will be in the spotlight of the national SDGs forum in January 2019, Belarus National SDG Coordinator, Vice Speaker of the Council of the Republic Marianna Shchetkina said at the meeting of regional groups on SDGs in Brest, BelTA has learned. “Belarus is among those who spearhead the efforts to organize the work towards the Sustainable Development Goals. We also realize that it is very important to build up the work at the...

Photos courtesy of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park BREST, 23 November (BelTA) – The Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park invites tourists to see an ancient settlement dating back to the Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age. The recreated settlement is one of the facilities of an open-air archeological museum which is under construction now. The settlement will open for visitors by the end of the year, BelTA learned from researcher at the national park Ruslan Kniga....

Photo from godliteratury.ru The Gospel in Dostoyevsky facsimile three-volume edition with a unique typography has been donated to the Literature and Local Lore Museum in the village of Dostoyevo, Ivanovo District, BelTA has learned from the Ivanovo District Executive Committee. This unique edition was delivered to Belarus by representatives of the Revival of Tobolsk Foundation with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Belarus' Honorary Consul General in Tyumen...

The Brest Regional Local History Museum hosted a ceremony to hand over the Bona Sforza 500th anniversary coronation medal on 11 October, BelTA has learned. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Duchess of Milan Bona Sforza. She married Sigismund I, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1518 and became Queen of Poland. The Mint of Poland produced gold and silver commemorative medals in her honor five years ago. The Brest Regional Local History Museum...

In January-July 2018, Brest Oblast and Armenia increased mutual trade by about a third compared to the same period in 2017, Chairman of the Brest Oblast Council of Deputies Yuri Narkevich said as he met with the Armenian delegation led by Vice President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov on 25 September, BelTA has learned. “In January-July 2018, the trade between Brest Oblast and Armenia exceeded $1.7 million, up by 35% to the same period a year...

The first few vehicles assembled by OAO Brestmash will roll off the assembly line by the end of the year, BelTA learned from Brest Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Klets on 19 September. The project is being implemented by JAC Motors Company from China's Anhui Province and the Belarusian holding company BelavtoMAZ. Brestmash is part of the holding company. In line with the contract the Chinese side supplies components while the Brest-based company assembles and tests the vehicles. The vehicles...

The Brest Fortress will prepare a new museum exposition by the end of the year, BelTA learned from director of the memorial complex Grigory Bysyuk. The Brest Fortress is implementing a Union State project that envisages overhaul, restoration and preservation of structures located at the memorial complex. “Works are in progress in the half-tower of the southeastern barrack, on the ruins of the barrack of the 333rd rifle regiment. Basements and the roof of the southwestern barrack near...

A ceremony to honor Brest Oblast's first harvester crew to exceed 2,000 tonnes of grain as part of this year's harvesting campaign took place in Kobrin District on 8 August. The senior harvester operator Yuri Sidoruk and his assistant Vadim Levchuk have managed to gather in 2,040 tonnes of grain using a KZS-1624 harvester in the agricultural company OAO Pokrovsky. Brest Oblast First Vice Governor Nikolai Tokar congratulated the crew on this accomplishment and presented a certificate of...