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The Belarusian embassy in Russia is looking into the ways to send home 16 Belarusian nationals stranded in Moscow airports, BelTA learned from the press service of the embassy.

“16 Belarusian nationals, who have come from France, Mexico and Qatar, are currently in the Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports. Due to the cancellation of the Belavia flights, the Belarusian embassy in Russia is mulling over alternative routes to bring the Belarusians home,” the embassy said.

Today, Belavia said that due to the suspension of international aviation operations in a number of countries amid the coronavirus outbreak, the national air company will temporarily stop to perform flights, including to the airports of Moscow (Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo) through 30 April.

From March 16 to April 5, the State traffic inspectorate carries out a set of preventive measures “Safe Vacations-VESNA-2020” in the territory of the Minsk Region, Department of the Interior of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee reported.

The purpose of this event is a timely response to the current situation in the field of road safety, prevention and mitigation of the consequences of accidents involving minors, on the eve of and during the spring school holidays.

Dear adults! You need to take all measures to prevent accidents with children. Control the child’s leisure, be an example of safe behavior on the road for him.

The Belarusian air carrier Belavia will continue flights to Moscow despite Russia's decision to terminate regular flights and charter flights, the press service of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry told BelTA.

The press service said an agreement had been reached to allow Belavia to continue offering flights to Moscow. The Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry received the relevant notification from the Russian side.

Previously the Russian government instructed the aviation administration agency Rosaviation to terminate regular flights and charter flights as from 27 March except for flights to bring Russians home.

The Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry had been working to keep air service between Belarus and Russia in place. Director of the Aviation Department Artem Sikorsky had consultations with Russian First Deputy Transport Minister Aleksandr Neradko, who is in charge of Rosaviation, by phone. Mutual dedication to preserving air service between the two countries was expressed during the conversation.

According to the regional program, by 2025 every resident of the Minsk region will be provided with high-quality drinking water, Mlyn.By reports.

So, according to the information of Vasily Shashka, General Director of the GO “Housing and Public Utilities of Minsk Oblast”, today the quality of water supply reaches 93%. In addition, 34 deferrization stations were commissioned in 2019. Plus, local authorities and enterprises built 21 more at their own expense.

This year it is planned to build 63 stations. But, to close the issue of high-quality drinking water before 2025, another 10-15 are planned to be added to this amount.

Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) is collecting interesting facts from its 100-year history, BelTA learned from the press service of the university.

“This year the BNTU celebrates its centenary. In order to make this event even more memorable, we are gathering little-known facts about the history of the university, its teachers and students, including photos and other items,” the press service said.

The BNTU invites everyone to take part in the project. “Perhaps, someone is directly or indirectly associated with the university and knows something particularly interesting or important from its history. We would like to reach out to as many graduates as possible in order to demonstrate how the university has changed over the years. We are also designing the 100.bntu.by website. Gathered interesting materials will be published on the website and also handed over to the university museum. Send your information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,” the university noted.

Another Belavia flight has flown 70 Belarusian citizen and foreigners from Moscow's Vnukovo airport to Minsk. These people could not leave Moscow because of Russia's coronavirus containment measures, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian embassy in Russia.

“Another 60 Belarusians returned home from Vietnam, Thailand, the UAE and the Dominican Republic. This charter flight operated by Belavia brought over 70 people to Minsk from Moscow's Vnukovo airport, including citizens of Armenia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands and Russia,” the embassy informed.

Belavia's first charter flight helped repatriate about a hundred Belarusian nationals on 20 March. The second charter flight flew 82 people including three foreigners (Armenia, Ukraine and Lithuania) on the night of 23 March.

As BelTA has reported earlier, on 18 March, Russia closed borders to foreign nationals, including citizens of Belarus, over the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Yet, it allowed transit through Moscow's airports Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo providing that citizens do not leave the transit zone and fly to Belarus within 24 hours. However, most Russian flights from the Asia-Pacific region arrive at Moscow's Vnukovo airport from which there are no direct flights to Minsk. Later on, Russia relaxed the transit rules to allow nationals of the CIS states, including Belarus, to fly through Vnukovo airport.

On March 28, a direct telephone line will be held in Minsk Oblast Executive Committee.

It will be led by the chairman of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Turchin from 9.00 to 12.00, phone 8 (017) 500-41-60.

A direct line is drawn weekly, every Saturday. Its goal is to increase the efficiency of work with appeals of citizens and legal entities, to eradicate the facts of bureaucracy and to quickly solve the problematic issues that arise among the population.

The Belarusian national air carrier Belavia has suspended flights to Tbilisi and Batumi due to the temporary termination of the international air traffic in several countries because of coronavirus, BelTA learned from Belavia.

The flights В2 735-736 to Tbilisi have been suspended from 22 to 28 March and the flights В2 741-742 from 20 to 28 March.

The flights B2 737 to Batumi will not be available from 20 to 28 March and the flights B2 738 from 21 to 29 March.

Due to the ever-changing situation the national air carrier asks to check the updates on the the Belavia website.

A refund or change of departure date for canceled flights can be made until 31 December 2020. “Passengers can contact ticket offices, airline offices and the support service on this issue at any time till the end of 2020. There is no need to do it right now, all your ticket information is stored in our system. You can contact us after the expected date of flight, giving your ticket number. Passengers have an opportunity to reschedule the flight date only one time. They have a few months to think about when they want to fly on this ticket next time,” Belavia said.

From March 19 to April 12, mobile speed sensors will be installed at:

highway M-4 Minsk-Mogilev (measurement direction to Mogilev), 28 km 630 m, speed limit for all types of vehicles - 90 km/h;

highway R-43 border of the Russian Federation-Krichev-Bobruisk-Ivatsevichi, (village Tucha, Kletsk region) 418 km 900 m, speed limit for all types of vehicles - 60 km/h;

highway R-23 Minsk-Mikashevichi, 58 km 600 m, speed limit for cars - 100 km/h, freight - 70 km/h, buses and motorcycles - 90 km/h.

As noted in the Road Police of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee, the goal of installing mobile speed sensors is to prevent drivers from breaking the set speed in places where traffic accidents are concentrated.

And already after monitoring the operation of the above technical equipment, an assessment of the effectiveness of the measures taken will be given and a decision will be made on the need for further prevention.

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has summed up the attendance results for the European ice hockey championships in the 2019-2020 season. HC Dinamo Minsk (KHL) made it into the list of the most-attended clubs, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian club placed sixth with the average attendance of 10,666 fans.

The best-visited European club remained SC Bern from Switzerland. In average 16,237 spectators came to the arena in the Swiss capital. SKA St. Petersburg placed second with 13,594 fans. Germany's Kolner Haie moved up to third place with 13,333 fans at the expense of Eisbaren Berlin with 12,901 while another German team, Adler Mannheim with 11,891 fans, completed the Top Five.