An explosion has struck a handcar on a rail line in northwestern Russia, injuring the operator's leg. Authorities were investigating the incident, but the cause was not immediately clear. A RIA Novosti suggested a small stretch of track was damaged on a rail line leading to Belarus.
New Minsk Office will Embed Swiss Group Further into Eastern Europe
Kuehne & Nagel have founded an operating centre in Minsk under their own company name having had agencies there since 1996. The new operation will offer full and less than truck load and weekly groupage services between Belarus, Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan and additionally LCL and FCL shipments via the ports of Klaipeda and Riga with comprehensive airfreight coverage via Minsk airport.
The Latvian Foreign Ministry has signed a border agreement with Belarus and Russia defining the point of intersection of borders of the three countries. The freshly agreed upon border point "lies at the point of intersection of the center lines of the river Zilupe and its tributary the Neverica," The Latvian Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
Russia’s electricity transit to the Baltic states via Belarus will amount to about 3 billion kilowatt-hours in 2010, an official at the Russian electricity export-import operator Inter RAO UES said on Monday.
Iran is planning to build a tourism village in Belarus in an attempt to expand cultural ties between the two countries. During his latest visit to the former Soviet republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff announced Tehran's decision to build the Persepolis tourism village in Belarus.
Last year the beer sales to the Baltic states considerably grown and accounted for 29.2% of the total. “The sales increased without extra injections in the advertising. We avoided additional expenditure on the marketing to minimize the cost of the product and preserve its competitiveness in price,” Director General Audrius Miksys said.
The president of Belarus has signed a decree abolishing the board of directors of the National Bank. The board's functions are now taken over by National Bank's management.
A rapidly slowing economy and falling exchange rates will see the Belarusian pharmaceutical market post a US dollar contraction for the first time in 2009, with the double-digit exchange rate of previous years not expected to return until 2011. Still, despite our expectation of a 8.5% fall in US dollar market value for the full year and a 3.9% fall in 2010, forecasts of a recovering economy and appreciating ruble underlie our still robust five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.93% in US dollar terms (9.76% in local currency terms) for the period 2009-2014. Forecasting further out, our new 10-year forecast predicts a 9.68% CAGR in US dollar terms.
Swedish and Polish foreign ministers Karl Bildt and Radoslaw Sikorski have called on Russia to withdraw nuclear weapons from the areas bordering the European Union. In their opinion, nuclear weapons should not be stationed in the Kaliningrad regions and Kolski semi-island, reports Gazeta.pl.
The Czech Republic-based youth group Malady Front (Youth Front) has refused to organize a traditional street action on February 14, St. Valentine's Day. Instead, the young opposition members will hold I Love Belarus Awards.
An explosion has struck a handcar on a rail line in northwestern Russia, injuring the operator's leg. Authorities were investigating the incident, but the cause was not immediately clear. A RIA Novosti suggested a small stretch of track was damaged on a rail line leading to Belarus.
New Minsk Office will Embed Swiss Group Further into Eastern Europe 
The Latvian Foreign Ministry has signed a border agreement with Belarus and Russia defining the point of intersection of borders of the three countries. The freshly agreed upon border point "lies at the point of intersection of the center lines of the river Zilupe and its tributary the Neverica," The Latvian Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
Russia’s electricity transit to the Baltic states via Belarus will amount to about 3 billion kilowatt-hours in 2010, an official at the Russian electricity export-import operator Inter RAO UES said on Monday.
Last year the beer sales to the Baltic states considerably grown and accounted for 29.2% of the total. “The sales increased without extra injections in the advertising. We avoided additional expenditure on the marketing to minimize the cost of the product and preserve its competitiveness in price,” Director General Audrius Miksys said.
