Kopyl regional executive committee

Work to realize the pilot manufacturing cooperation project Eurasian Electrobus has begun in the industrial block of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the commission's press service told BelTA.

Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova has convened a conference to discuss the operation of OAO MotoVeloZavod with parties concerned, BelTA has learned.

1 September is Knowledge Day in the Republic of Belarus. Back-to-school ceremonies are held across the country to kick off a new academic year.

Over 120 lawyers of the Minsk Oblast Bar Association led by Chairman Maksim Tereshkov helped beautify the territory of the World War Two memorial complex Khatyn, BelTA has learned.

A socially responsible civil society should be the bulwark of the state, Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko said at a government conference hosted by the president to discuss the draft laws on civil society, political parties and other public associations in Minsk on 30 August, BelTA has learned.

The president's busy schedule is an answer to the questions that the year 2022 puts before our country and our region, before the whole planet, Press Secretary of the Belarusian President Natalya Eismont said in an interview to ONT TV channel, BelTA has learned.

Belarus has began harvesting millet and buckwheat, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

The Russian government has approved signing an agreement with Belarus on the mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates. The relevant executive order signed by Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin has been published in the Russian legislation registry, BelTA has learned.

The existing centralized testing system does not always properly evaluate prospective university students despite all the steps taken to improve it. This is why approaches to changing the system for the better should be worked out soon. Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko made the statement at a session of the administration's board, BelTA has learned.

Igor Sergeyenko said that during the government conference held on the previous day to discuss the development of the national education system Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that it is necessary to work out a clear, transparent, and understandable system for university admission. Because grain harvest, industrial performance, import substitution, and many other things will depend on the future university graduates. “Instructions were given for us to once again look into the matter by the next year under the aegis of the Belarus President Administration. But we understand that it has to be done much faster. We have to once again take a close look at the problem and make up our minds on whether the current centralized testing system should be preserved or whether it should be changed and suggested in the format that is supposed to come into effect starting next year or whether some other innovations should be introduced. The head of state stressed that we have to see graduates in the course of the university admission campaign. The existing centralized testing system, which has been in place for 20 years and to which all of us have grown accustomed, does not allow it despite all the innovations to improve the system,” the official said.

In his words, a lot of work has to be done. A powerful brainstorm has to be arranged not only within the framework of today's board session, which gathered the education minister, heads of municipal authorities, regional education offices, and local practitioners. But on the whole, by engaging a broad range of specialists, parents, and pedagogues it will be necessary to soon determine and submit proposals on what the system to select the best school graduates, who intend to seek higher education, should be.

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Gomel Oblast and Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast are interested in cooperation in various spheres. The relevant possibilities were discussed as the head of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast's representative office in Belarus Andrei Dudkin met with representatives of the management of Gomel Oblast enterprises, BelTA has learned.

The Nizhny Novgorod Oblast representative office was made familiar with prospects of Gomel Oblast regions over the course of two days. They visited a cheese and dairy products enterprise of OAO Milkavita, a workwear manufacturing enterprise, and a reinforced-concrete products enterprise in Khoiniki District. In Loyev the district was represented by OOO Bosko-servis, a construction materials enterprise, and a museum.

The first destination on the itinerary in Rechitsa District was OAO Rechickij Metiznyj Zavod. It was followed by OAO Rechitsadrev, Rechitsa Textile, and other companies. According to Andrei Dudkin, there are considerable opportunities for finding mutual contacts. “There is interest in the services and the products made in Belarus as a whole and in Gomel Oblast in particular. It should be systemic work, which I hope will start producing positive results soon. On the whole, contact points have been sketched out all over the country. Cooperation proceeds in mechanical engineering, food industry, agriculture, and IT,” he remarked.

The manufacturing industry demonstrates serious interest. “Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is primarily a major industrial center of Russia. Interaction between industrial enterprises is the most important thing and an interesting thing for us. Many manufacturing cooperation ties were established back in the USSR period. We are now restoring them, trying to take them to new heights. It is important for Belarusian and Russian enterprises to be able to work directly without non-producing mediators,” Andrei Dudkin stressed. In his words, logistic issues can be resolved. “We are now working on it with the Belarusian side. There are contact points but specialists need to take a closer look at them. The logistic component prevails in shipments of any kind of products,” he added.

After two days in Gomel Oblast the representative office of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast mentioned concrete projects, too. “For instance, we've established a direct connection between a Gomel Oblast cheese manufacturer and Russian companies in the manufacturing industry. We've worked with enterprises in the sphere of high technologies – there are mutual interests. Later on the work will only grow more intensive and MPs play an important role in it. Today's meeting is a vivid example of cooperation with the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus. Such interesting meetings take place thanks to cooperation. We come into concrete well-prepared environment instead of like tourists that have to look at their maps. We thank MPs for it. Their role is great in establishing bilateral trade, economic, and cultural relations,” Andrei Dudkin said.

A presentation of Narovlya District's potential is scheduled for the second day. The guests will be made familiar with a Polesie furniture factory and will be able to sample sweet products of OAO Krasny Mozyryanin.

Zhanna Chernyavskaya, a member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, is convinced that such meetings will enable a direct contact between Belarusian and Russian manufacturers and will result in contracts and solid partnerships.