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The International Children's Song Contest, as well as exhibitions, a press conference and other events will be held on the eve of the official start of the 31st edition of the International Arts Festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from the directorate of the festival.

The first competition of the International Children's Song Contest will be the highlight of the festival's program on 13 July. This year the song contest marks its 20th anniversary. The participants will perform a song in their native language. The general concept of the junior contest will be creating a new fairy tale by everyone involved in the contest.

The day before the grand opening creativity will fill the air of the host city Vitebsk. Visitors will be able to take part in the “Space of Belarus” event and to color little pictures dedicated to Belarusian artists in front of the Vitebsk Concert Hall. The Art Museum is running an exhibition of Flemish and Dutch graphics. The Ilya Repin Zdravnevo Museum Estate presents the exposition “Leo Tolstoy through the eyes of Ilya Repin”. The Dukhovskoy Kruglik exhibition hall invites the audience to unravel the mysteries and metamorphoses of Aleksandr Bogdanovsky's graphics.

Italian musician Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi and participants of the new festival project Theater Laboratory will answer tricky questions of journalists at press conferences.

A circus show will take place on the stage of the Summer Amphitheater. Spectators will see a parade allez and breathtaking stunts defying gravity.

The 31st edition of the International Arts Festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk will be running from 13 to 18 July. The grand opening will take place on 14 July, and the final concert is scheduled for 17 July. The forum will bring together more than 5,000 participants.

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A history festival reenacting Minsk policemen's battle near Senno of 1941 will be held in the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex on 16 July, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The program includes a large-scale military historical reenactment of the last battle of Minsk policemen near Senno, interactive zones for children and adults, an exhibition of special-purpose equipment and retro vehicles, a shooting range, a K9 show, a field kitchen.

Visitors will be able to ride in a tank and take a sightseeing tour in a Mi-2 helicopter.

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The Office for Digital Health will be established in Belarus, BelTA learned from the press service of the Healthcare Ministry.

It will be created at the National Center for Medical Technology, Informatization, Management and Health Economics.

The main task of the office is to deliver innovation to the public healthcare system by implementing national programs in the field of digital transformation of the health sector.

There are plans to open regional offices for digital health in all regions of the country and the city of Minsk.

The establishment of the new office is envisaged by Order No. 902 dated 7 July 2022 that was passed in pursuance of Decree No. 136 of 7 April 2022 “On the public administration body in the field of digital transformation and informatization”.

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The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus needs to bring all laws in line with the new Constitution in 2022-2023, Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko told reporters after he met with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, BelTA has learned.

According to him, in connection with the adoption of the new Constitution, the House of Representatives plans to discuss 90 bills, of which eight have already passed the first reading, and 17 have passed the second reading. “We should complete this work by 1 January 2024, so that we will be able to hold elections to the House of Representatives combined with elections to local councils on 25 February 2024 and convene the Belarusian People's Congress within the subsequent 60 days,” Vladimir Andreichenko said.

According to him, during the last session the MPs considered 60 issues. “The forthcoming 9th session will be just as intensive. A very broad range of issues is to be discussed. This includes bringing legislation in line with the Constitution and dealing with a number of economic issues, and redistributing powers between state bodies,” Vladimir Andreichenko noted.

The parliamentarians will need to maintain momentum, and this is what the head of state demanded during his meeting with the chairman of the House of Representatives.

“Particular attention will be paid to the development of new bills, such as the bills on the Belarusian People's Congress, civil society, amendments and additions to the Civil Code. This work is already underway. One variant of the bill on the Belarusian People's Congress has already been prepared, it is undergoing approval procedures. I think after consideration by the president this bill will pass the first reading in September,” Vladimir Andreichenko informed.

According to him, the head of state also wanted the comprehensive discussion of these bills and told the MPs to make sure that they “make use of the good tradition of people's lawmaking, like it was during the discussion of the new Constitution draft”.

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Belarus and Russia have made great progress in integration, Russia's SVR Director Sergey Naryshkin told the media following a joint meeting of Belarus' KGB and the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia in Moscow on 7 July, BelTA has learned.

"Indeed, in recent years we have made great progress in advancing the integration, strengthening the Union State, and promoting cooperation between literally all ministries and departments," Sergey Naryshkin said.

"This is the key to strengthening the security of our states and citizens of Belarus and Russia," he stressed.

Speaking about joint effort to fight back against Western sanctions, Sergey Naryshkin noted that one of the main tools is integration."If we talk about our joint work, including the joint work of the special services of Belarus and Russia, and in principle the joint work of our states, then we believe that a strong response to the aggression from Western countries and NATO is our interaction, even deeper integration within the framework of the Union State, strengthening our positions in all avenues: military-political, economic, trade, cultural," Sergey Naryshkin said.

"Civil society, business all ministries and departments without exception, including special services, contribute tp the work to strengthen integration processes," he added.

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Two aircraft of the Emergencies Ministry of Belarus are helping suppress forest fires near the Turkish cities of Izmir and Antalya, BelTA learned from the Emergencies Ministry of Belarus.

Two Mi-8 helicopters with water discharge devices remain on duty in Turkey. “Aviation can help detect wildfires at an early stage and quickly eliminate them, thus minimizing the repercussions,” the Emergencies Ministry noted.

Belarusian pilots from the Emergencies Ministry participated in the wildfire suppression effort in the Marmaris region this year. The fire affected more than 400 hectares.

All in all, since the beginning of their mission, Belarusian pilots have made 78 sorties with a total flight time of 140 hours, more than 370 water discharges have been made.

By the way, Belarusian rescuers have been helping other countries facing emergency situations for almost 15 years. Thus, Emergencies Ministry aircraft helped put out forest fires in Greece, Russia, Latvia and Georgia, and also helped residents of Serbia affected by the flood.

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The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) and the Russian national research center Kurchatov Institute intend to step up cooperation in key areas of science, representatives of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus told BelTA.

For the sake of more effective interaction and for the sake of getting Belarusian research organizations involved in research the Kurchatov Institute has opened a representative office at premises of the Physical-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. Several labs are located there. The materials science lab will work directly with the Physical-Technical Institute. “What we do is similar. We are interested in various materials. Apart from that, the Physical-Technical Institute is interested in the modernization of particle accelerators of the Kurchatov Institute,” Director of the Physical-Technical Institute Vitaly Zalessky said.

Genetic research is one of the avenues of cooperation between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Kurchatov Institute. “We are preparing a joint project concerning microbiome of plants, animals, and soil. Belarusian microbiologists and geneticists will participate in it. The project's implementation is supposed to begin next year. It is designed to run for three years. It will be fundamental research,” said Director of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Ruslan Sheiko.

Last year the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Kurchatov Institute signed a roadmap designed to guide cooperation in the period till 2030. The roadmap provides for joint and equal participation in the creation and use of a megascience class scientific research structure. The roadmap lists over 40 events and projects, including in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and development of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Russian national research center Kurchatov Institute is one of the world's top scientific research institutions. In the 20th century it was instrumental to national security and the development of strategic areas, including the development and creation of nuclear weapons, nuclear-driven underwater and surface fleets, nuclear energy industry. At present the Kurchatov Institute boasts a unique research infrastructure. It carries out research and development in a broad range of areas of modern science and technology, including power engineering, convergent NBICS technologies, particle physics, high-tech healthcare, and information technologies.

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Air China is set to resume its service to Minsk on 1 July, BelTA learned from Minsk National Airport.

Flights from the Belarusian capital to China will be operated on Fridays. Airbus A-330 will arrived at Minsk Airport at 17.25, with return flight scheduled for 19.35.

According to Minsk National Airport, before the hiatus the flight took place on 25 March.

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The interregional cooperation between Belarus and Russia is taking on new significance in today's conditions, Chair of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalya Kochanova said at the plenary session “The role of interregional cooperation in deepening the Union State integration processes” at the 9th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia in Grodno on 1 July, BelTA has learned.

“Over the past years, the forum has become one of the landmark events in the two countries. It always arouses the genuine interest of our fraternal peoples. It helps build human contacts based on mutual respect and trust, and promote a civilized interstate dialogue. In modern conditions, the interregional cooperation between our countries is taking on new significance,” Natalya Kochanova said.

According to her, the meetings of the Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia are traditionally candid, friendly, and result-oriented and, what is very important, highly efficient.

Numerous successful projects in the economy, social, humanitarian and other spheres suggest that the forum is very relevant, the speaker noted.

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An agreement to open two new technology and innovation support centers was signed in Grodno, BelTA has learned.

The centers will operate at Yanka Kupala Grodno State University and Grodno State Agrarian University. “Quite a number of technology and innovation support centers have opened in Belarus recently. Two new ones will be launched in Grodno. These are very convenient platforms for supporting people engaged in creative activities and inventions,” said Armen Azizyan, Vice-President of the Eurasian Patent Office of the Eurasian Patent Organization.

“Such centers should open at all universities of the country. This is a good tool to promote innovations that the country needs. We know that the future belongs to new technologies and ideas. For example, a center for innovative technologies opened at Grodno State Agrarian University last year. Now agricultural universities have four laboratories, three of them are run by our university. The three laboratories include a center for innovative technologies, this is a think tank generating the most advanced ideas. For example, the DNA technology center has become so widely incorporated into the manufacturing process that it now hosts teachers and students from a number of Russian universities for training. The embryo transfer center also runs courses where Russians learn new methods. And, of course, we are working together to update this process,” Rector of Grodno State Agrarian University Vitold Pestis said.

Vice-Rector for Science at Yanka Kupala Grodno State University Andrei Pronevich noted: “Starting from 2018, the university has been participating in the pilot project of the Education Ministry of Belarus University 3.0. Education, science and entrepreneurship are very closely interrelated. Innovative receptivity is one of the cornerstone principles of the development strategy of our university. We pay great attention to improving innovative entrepreneurial competencies of our teachers. Each student of our university attends an entrepreneurship course, has the opportunity to join the school of startups and projects in order to later showcase their skills and competencies at the InNaStart contest. We hold two such competitions annually and the number of applicants stands around 100. This bears fruit: 11 resident companies of the science and technology park of our university are our employees and students,” he said.

The agreement to open two technology and innovation support centers at Yanka Kupala Grodno State University and Grodno State Agrarian University was signed on the sidelines of the seminar “Development of a network of technology and innovation support centers in Belarus. The importance of geographical indications for the protection of national brands.” The event is taking place in Grodno.

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