The draft budget for 2020 aims to increase spending on agriculture, housing and public utilities, health care, industry and transport financing. read more

Russia should stop discriminating against Belarusian foodstuffs and other goods, BelTA reports quoting Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Uladzimir Syamashka. read more

Belarusian petrochemical state monopoly Belnaftakhim saw its oil exports reduced by $800 million against last year due to Russia's contamination of the Druzhba pipeline earlier in April. read more

IT sphere in Belarus is seen as one of the most prosperous and best-paid. read more

Belarus wants to raise oil transportation tariffs by 21.7% on August 1. read more

According to the demographic report prepared by the IMF experts, the population of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe will shrink markedly over the next 30 years unlike that of Asia, Africa and the Americas. read more

The compensation for Russia’s tax maneuver and the integration should not be bound. read more

Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei said that the government wants to increase the share of tourism in the country’s GDP to 10-12%, Emerging Europe writes. read more

Belarus has almost completed talks on borrowing $600 million from China, an amount which would be used to repay debts to Russia. read more

35,000 foreign tourists came to Minsk for the 2nd European Games, the Minister of Sport and Tourism of Belarus Sergei Kovalchuk revealed. read more