Before Muammar Qaddafi came to Moscow, analysts thought he would sign military contracts worth between $2 billion and $4.5 billion with Russia. However, while the Kremlin staff was busy searching for a place to build a Bedouin tent for Qaddafi, the "son of the desert" was thinking about his bargaining tactic in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Riga - Latvia and Belarus formally demarcated their border Thursday in a signing ceremony in the Latvian capital, Riga. The move officially sets part of the European Union's eastern border.
Belarus imported about 130,000 vehicles from January to September 2008, a 24-percent increase on the same period of 2007. Vehicle imports totaled nearly $1 billion, said the State Customs Committee.
Negotiations between the Belarusian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a possible $2-billion stand by loan will resume next week. An IMF European Department deputy director arrives in Minsk on November 8.
A business delegation of Russia’s Stavropol krai will visit Belarus on November 11-12, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Belarus Andrei Papou told a news briefing in Minsk on November 6.
The Days of Culture of Belarus will be held in Slovakia for the first time, the chief of the international cooperation department of the Culture Ministry of Belarus, Mikhail Kazhuro, told BelTA.
On the invitation of the Office for a Democratic Belarus (Brussels, Belgium) and the Foundation for Legal Technologies Development (Ukraine), a group of Belarusian ecology experts visited Brussels on November 3-7 and participated in the training course “EU Environment Policy: Sharing Knowledge with Belarus”.
An exhibition of Belarusian posters, entitled “Visual Code of the Time: Post-Soviet Poster Art in Belarus”, opened in Dresden’s Aquarium Club yesterday. The travelling exhibition is organised by the Office for a Democratic Belarus (Brussels) and the Belarusian Union of Designers with the support of the Bratislava office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries.
Before Muammar Qaddafi came to Moscow, analysts thought he would sign military contracts worth between $2 billion and $4.5 billion with Russia. However, while the Kremlin staff was busy searching for a place to build a Bedouin tent for Qaddafi, the "son of the desert" was thinking about his bargaining tactic in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Riga - Latvia and Belarus formally demarcated their border Thursday in a signing ceremony in the Latvian capital, Riga. The move officially sets part of the European Union's eastern border.
The Days of Culture of Belarus will be held in Slovakia for the first time, the chief of the international cooperation department of the Culture Ministry of Belarus, Mikhail Kazhuro, told BelTA.
On the invitation of the Office for a Democratic Belarus (Brussels, Belgium) and the Foundation for Legal Technologies Development (Ukraine), a group of Belarusian ecology experts visited Brussels on November 3-7 and participated in the training course “EU Environment Policy: Sharing Knowledge with Belarus”.
