Outgoing Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Serbia to Belarus Veljko Kovacevic has made a big contribution to the development of bilateral cooperation with Belarus, President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with the ambassador on 28 May, BelTA informs.

Residents of Vitebsk Oblast appealed to Assistant to the President - Inspector of Vitebsk Oblast Anatoly Linevich during a direct telephone line and remote reception of citizens in Pervomaisky district of Vitebsk.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has congratulated Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Azerbaijan's national holiday- Republic Day, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian head of state.

Vitebsk Oblast, the first in the country, halved the single tax rate for individual entrepreneurs and self-employed citizens. Small business can count on such support in the second and third quarters of this year. Not the easiest for the budget, but a very necessary decision was made at a session of Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies.

The issues of wages in budget-financed organizations were discussed at a meeting chaired by the Belarusian president on 26 May, BelTA has learned.

Very little time is left before the beginning of the long-awaited time for all schoolchildren - summer holidays. And so that as many children as possible could spend this time interestingly and profitably, preparations for the summer season are in full swing in Vitebsk Oblast.

Information channels spreading fake news have stepped up their activities, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed a meeting to discuss important social, economic, and political matters in Minsk on 25 May, BelTA has learned.

The united team of Vitebsk Oblast won 34 diplomas at the final stage of the republican Olympiad among schoolchildren.

The forthcoming presidential election in Belarus should be well organized, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he addressed a meeting to discuss important social, economic, and political matters in Minsk on 25 May, BelTA has learned.

The Ministerial Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold a videoconference meeting on 26 May, CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zainetdinov told BelTA.

Places of mass rest in Vitebsk Oblast were taken by law enforcement officers under special control.

The names of candidates for the presidency of Belarus will be known in July, CEC Chairperson Lidia Yermoshina said in the Actual Microphone program on the air of the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio.

The collection of signatures to nominate candidates for the post of the President of Belarus will be held from 21 May through 19 June inclusively, BelTA has learned.

The farms of Vitebsk Oblast completed the sowing of spring grain and leguminous plants. Their area amounted to 194 thousand hectares in the oblast, said Sergei Egorov, chairman of the committee on agriculture and food of the Oblast Executive Committee.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed a decree “On social support for certain population groups,” BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

It is necessary to quickly consider housing and communal services in the regions, so that appeals to higher authorities are fewer. This opinion was expressed by the Presidential Aide - Vitebsk Oblast Inspector Anatoly Linevich during a direct telephone line with residents of the northern region.

The meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council will take place in the format of a video conference under the chairmanship of Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 19 May. Earlier the meeting was to take place in Minsk, however, in the light of the recent unfavorable epidemiological situation the leaders of the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) decided to discuss the agenda remotely, BelTA has learned.

A virtual gallery of portraits of veterans and participants of the Great Patriotic War was created in Novopolotsk, said Vladimir Belyaev, director of the Museum of History and Culture of Novopolotsk.

The Russian company Rosneft has signed contracts to supply up to 9 million tonnes of oil to Belarus by the end of 2020, BelTA learned from the company's website.

In Vitebsk Oblast, today the oblast stage of the campaign "For the Glory of General Victory" was completed. The transfer of land from the military graves took place at the Breakthrough memorial complex in Ushachy Region on the anniversary of the Nazi encirclement by partisans.