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Belarus and the United States are planning to set up joint ventures to grow beef cattle, Belarus' Minister of Agriculture and Food Leonid Zayats said before a meeting with U.S. Agriculture Attache in Moscow Rachel Vandenberg and a delegation of American scientists and businessmen in Minsk on 31 October, BelTA has learned. "Together with the United States we are planning to set up joint ventures to grow beef cattle with a view to bringing these products to the Russian market, the markets...

On 1 November 2015 Belarus expanded the network of its BelToll system. The decision is stipulated in Council of Ministers Resolution No.911 of 30 October 2015 concerning amendments to the provision on the order of paying road tolls for the use of Belarusian toll roads by transport vehicles, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The BelToll system included over 300km of new roads. Among them are highways M5 and M6, P99, P23 and P21. On 1...

Voter turnout in the president election in Belarus was 86.75%, BelTA learned from the website of the Central Election Commission of Belarus. Vitebsk Oblast was the leader in terms of voter turnout (91%), with the voter turnout at its lowest in the city of Minsk (73.33%). Voter turnout at polling stations abroad stood at 82.85%. The total number of voters on the electoral register is over 7 million. BELARUSIAN NEWS

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia will take part in observing the presidential election in Belarus as part of the observation mission sent by the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Assembly's press service told BelTA. The delegation will comprise representatives of both chambers of the Russian parliament and personnel of the Parliamentary Assembly secretariat. The delegation will be led by Leonid Slutsky, member of the Information Policy...

As many as 6,995,181 voters have been entered into the voter lists for the Belarus president election, BelTA learned from the website of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus. In particular, there are 1,000,295 voters in Brest Oblast, 877,793 voters in Vitebsk Oblast, 1,101,044 voters in Gomel Oblast, 778,355 voters in Grodno Oblast, 1,116,183 voters in Minsk Oblast, 814,852 voters in Mogilev Oblast, and 1,300,917 voters in the city of Minsk. As many as 5,742 people have been...

The business community of Vitebsk Oblast with the financial support of the Eurasia Foundation has launched a program to teach school students the basics of running a business, BelTA learned from Ida Sitnikova, the head of the Vitebsk regional institute for education development. The international project "School business companies: the potential for business education of school students" was started on 18 September. It is run by the Vitebsk Business Center with the financial assistance...