Belarusian oil refineries (Mozyr Oil Refinery and Naftan) are expected to get about 1.64 million tonnes of Russian oil in December, BelTA learned from Aleksandr Tishchenko, Press Secretary of the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim, on 8 December.

Outgoing Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Azerbaijan Gennady Akhramovich paid a farewell courtesy call on Azerbaijan Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov on 4 December, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Vitebsk DSK enterprise plans to increase the volume of export services to Russia next year, told Anton Dubovikov, general director of the house-building plant.

A new package of sanctions against Belarus will result in an escalation of the crisis of relations with the West, BelTA learned from Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR).

For patients with pneumonia and COVID 19, 1.4 thousand beds are provided in medical institutions of Vitebsk Oblast.

Belarus supports the idea to expand the powers of observer countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Belarus' Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said during a videoconference meeting of the SCO Heads of Government Council on 30 November.

The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Turkmenistan held web-based ministerial consultations, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Zheleznyaki Rehabilitation Department of Vitebsk Oblast Clinical Cardiology Center began to accept patients with COVID-19 for follow-up treatment, said Mikhail Vishnevetsky, head of the Main Health Care Office of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.

Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Mikhail Myasnikovich talked to Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in a videoconference session on 26 November, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission told BelTA.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made a number of appointments in the law enforcement unit today.

In Vitebsk Oblast in January-October, 352 unused real estate facilities were involved in economic circulation, including 27 republican and 212 communal property, 65 property of the Union of Consumer Societies, 48 property of OJSC, the Vitebskoblimuschestvo Committee reported.