Kopyl regional executive committee

Minsk hotels have been more popular this year than in 2018. Their occupancy rate increased by nearly 6% while the export of tourism services amounted to about $49 million in January-August, BelTA learned from Yuri Natychko, Deputy Head of the Central Office for Consumer Market of the Minsk City Executive Committee, on 30 October.

Minsk Oblast and the Czech Republic are interested in close cooperation, experience exchange, and boosting export and import of goods and services, including through joint ventures, Minsk Oblast Vice Governor Nikolai Rogashchuk said as he met with a Czech delegation led by Czechia Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Martin Tlapa during their visit to Minsk Oblast, BelTA has learned.

Chairman of the EOC Coordination Commission Spiros Capralos thanked friendly Belarus for hosting the multi-sport forum at the highest level as he made a report on the 2nd European Games 2019 at the 48th General Assembly of the European Olympic Committees, BelTA learned from the press service of the NOC of Belarus.

InInsider has ranked the continent's cheapest capital cities based on the base cost of a single fare, or shortest journey duration, between any two stations on their public transport system. Minsk and Kiev share the first place in the ranking, BelTA has learned.

The China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone was named the Eastern European Industrial Project of the Year by the EuropaProperty agency, BelTA learned form the industrial park.

Ministerial consultations on interaction of the CIS member states with the European Union, other multilateral European organizations, NATO, the OSCE and on cooperation in security in Europe will be held in the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk on 24 October, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko will hold talks with Cuban President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez in Minsk on 23 October. The Cuban president is set to pay an official visit to Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

HC Dinamo Minsk has ranked most-attended club among the KHL teams. On average, a game of the Belarusian team drew 13,098 fans, BelTA learned from the website of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation.

The Scientists of the Future Competition is the largest competition in research and development activities among high school students.

In Chinese-Belorussian industrial park "Great Stone", in Smolevichi region, a factory opened for the production of internal combustion engines "MAZ-Weichai"