Berezino regional executive committee

On March 6, the Great Stone Sino-Belarusian Industrial Park, which is located in Smolevichi region, was visited by Mustafa Ozjan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to the Republic of Belarus, the press service of the park said.

The head of the diplomatic mission got acquainted with the history and development of the project. He was also interested in logistics opportunities and infrastructure construction.

The guest also visited the One Station Integrated Service Center. During the talks, Mustafa Ozjan noted that such a site as an industrial park, due to the conditions created for doing business here, may be of interest to Turkish companies.

In turn, the head of the diplomatic mission invited the leadership of the park to present the investment opportunities of the Great Stone at the joint forum of Belarus and Turkey, which will be held in autumn in Istanbul.

The Belavia national air carrier will suspend flights to Kishinev and Riga over coronavirus, BelTA learned from the website of the air carrier.

Flights to Kishinev will be suspended from 17 to 31 March; flights to Riga will not be available from 17 March to 14 April.

In view of the fast-evolving situation, Belavia asks customers to follow updates on the website of the company.

Customers who purchased tickets for these dates will be able to get a refund or reschedule their flights till 31 December 2020.

“Customers will be able to do it at the company's sales offices anytime till the end of 2020. There is no need to do it right away, as all the details of the tickets are kept by the company. Therefore, customers will be able to get a refund or reschedule the flight even after the date of the flight. The company just needs a ticket number. Dates of flights can be changed only once. Therefore, customers have several months to think of a new date on their route,” the airline informed.

From March 28 to April 4, the republican voluntary action “Forest Week” will be held for the thirteenth time in Minsk Oblast, the press service of the Ministry of Forestry reports.

The action will be dedicated to the Year of the Small Motherland and is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. And its main goal is to attract public attention to the need for careful attitude to the forest.

During this event, participants will be engaged in forest planting, cleanliness in forests and restoration of places of mass recreation.

Anyone can join the "Forest Week". To do this, contact the nearest leshoz or forestry. Forestry institutions will provide all the necessary equipment and planting material, and will also show objects in need of restoration.

By the way, the initiator of the action is the Ministry of Forestry.

In large cities of the region, they plan to replace buses with an internal combustion engine with electric buses.

In total, 110 environmentally friendly cars must be purchased: Soligorsk - 40, Molodechno - 20, Borisov - 20, Slutsk - 15, Zhodino - 15.

Moreover, the regions need an electric bus with a range of at least 250 km on a single charge.

The project is implemented by Minoblavtotrans OJSC together with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. And so that the movement on such a public electric transport was even more convenient, a separate lane can be allocated on the M3 highway, at the end of the reconstruction.

The seminar “The day of Chile in Belarus” will be held in Minsk on 31 March, BelTA has learned from the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Chile's delegation will consist of the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the trade representation of Chile and also executives of large enterprises producing cheese, vine, seafood, nuts and dried fruit, fresh fruit and vegetables.

The Chilean delegation will lay out the prospects of trade and economic cooperation with the countries of Latin America to the Belarusian business community and tell about the best export promotion practices in Chile. The negotiations between the participants of the seminar will be conducted.

The event is held by the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the trade representation at the Chile Embassy in Russia.

A new house for 192 apartments for residents of the capital is already being built in Smolevichi. They plan to hand it over in the summer.

The infrastructure is developing in this city. The first shopping center is already ready for operation. The issue of clinics, kindergartens and schools is being addressed. Also, from the Mound of Glory towards Smolevichy, there is a reconstruction of the first section of the R-53 highway. Note, the road from Minsk through Smolevichy, Zhodino to Borisov will be made concrete and four-lane.

In addition, the leadership of Minsk Oblast offers the city of Minsk to develop a plot in Rudensk with an area of 73 hectares.

The Belarusian National History Museum will host the national forum on local history on 12-13 March. The event is timed to the Year of Native Land, BelTA learned from the museum.

The forum will bring together about 230 participants: local historians, workers of cultural, educational, science and information institutions, university students, students of general and vocational schools, further education students and representatives of public organizations. The forum aims to review the state of affairs in this science, to promote historical, cultural and natural heritage of Belarusian cities and villages, to raise awareness of local history projects in Belarus, to create conditions for dialogue between local historians and to popularize the national tangible and spiritual heritage among young people.

The results of the contest for the best local history publication for 2017-2019 will be summed up during the forum. More than 200 books are participating in it. The program will feature the presentation of most interesting projects, and an exhibition of local history literature from the National Library and publications of local historians.

The forum is organized by the Belarusian National History Museum, the Belarusian Cultural Foundation with the support of the Culture Ministry and the Information Ministry of Belarus. The partners of the forum are the National Library, the Belarusian Writers Union and the Zvyazda Publishing House.

Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia's Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko handed over a capsule with the soil from the fields of sanguinary battles near Rzhev to the Memorial Church of All Saints in Minsk during her visit to Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The capsule contains the soil from two places: from the “height-200”, for which the battles lasted for several months, and from the mass grave near the village of Kokoshkino where thousands of unknown soldiers were buried. The capsule handover ceremony is timed to coincide with the international action of remembrance “To the Glory of the Common Victory!

The event was attended by MPs, representatives of the diplomatic corps and the Belarusian Orthodox Church. After the ceremony, Valentina Matviyenko talked to the Leningrad siege survivors who settled in Minsk. They said that they are satisfied with life in Belarus, actively participate in various events, often visit schools, meet with young people.

After the ceremony Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel gave Valentina Matviyenko an icon depicting Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk.

A capsule with soil from the battlefield near Rzhev was placed into the crypt of the All Saints Church in Minsk. It was the 78th capsule of this kind. The crypt has 504 niches grouped into sectors. The soil from the Rzhev battlefield was placed next to the soil taken from other major battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, including the Battle of Kursk, Partisan Operation Breakthrough in Vitebsk Oblast, Vyazma Operation. “Rzhev is an important milestone in the history of the Great Patriotic War. It is the place of one of the deadliest fights; the land near Rzhev is soaked with blood, this place is sacred for us. The fact that it will be kept in the crypt of the All Saints Church in Minsk is a great honor,” Director of the Belarusian Cultural Center of Spiritual Revival Aleksandr Gostev said.

According to him, a memorial museum will open in the All Saints Church within the framework of the campaign "To the Glory of the Common Victory!" ahead of 9 May. Its exposition will illustrate major battles in which the Belarusians took part in: from the battle on the Nemiga River to the Afghan war. The museum will make its visitors familiar with the history behind every capsule in the crypt with the help of photos, valuable historical artifacts, and findings handed over to the church by its parishioners.

“We do not keep count of the capsules, we keep count of the events behind these capsules, because each of them is a stage of the past. It is a new method of preserving the memory in order to be able to fully answer questions of future generations about our history, as veterans leave us one by one,” Archpriest

At a committee meeting devoted to summing up the results of 2019 and plans for 2020 in Dzerzhinsk, the chairman of the committee on labor, employment and social protection of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Tamara Krasovskaya said that the nominal average monthly salary in the region for 2019 amounted to 1098 rubles, an increase to the level 2018 - 13.7%.

Representatives of such spheres as mining earned 1,807.8 rubles, information and communications - 1,945.4 rubles. Education workers were charged 729.9 rubles, institutions of creativity, entertainment and leisure, sports - 756.5 rubles. State employees received 816 rubles, agricultural workers - 835.9 rubles.

Also in the region they control both the increase in salaries and the timeliness of payments. The number of salary debtors is also decreasing. In 2019, the region accounted for only 5.9% of the total number of debtor organizations. In 12 districts out of 23, wage arrears were not allowed.

The plans for the current year include ensuring further salary growth, monitoring problem organizations, and narrowing the wage gap between the public sector and the general level in Belarus.