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The main media center for Belarusian and foreign journalists working at the 2nd CIS Games has opened its doors in the Belarusian State University of Physical Education in Minsk, BelTA has learned.
About a thousand journalists from Belarus and over 10 countries will cover the 2nd CIS Games. Eleven Belarusian cities will be hosting the Games from 4 to 14 August. The program will include competitions in 20 sports. Competing for medals will be athletes from 23 countries.
According to Chief of the CIS Games media center Dmitry Voronyuk, the media center at the Belarusian State University of Physical Education is equipped with all necessary equipment. “There are more than 30 wired internet access points in the center. There is also access to Wi-Fi. Computers and necessary space for journalists are available on site. Printers have been installed for journalists to print out necessary information,” Dmitry Voronyuk said.
According to him, the media center can accommodate up to 100 journalists. “Monitors will ensure broadcasting of the competitions. QR codes on desks can be scanned to get up-to-date information about the 2nd CIS Games. Journalists will also have an opportunity to treat themselves to coffee and cookies,” Dmitry Voronyuk said.
A waste sorting plant outside Minsk will be reconstructed by the end of 2024, BelTA learned from Anastasia Vorobyova, Deputy Director General for Beautification, Sanitary Maintenance of the Housing Stock of the Minsk city housing and utilities enterprise, at a press conference on new approaches to environmental protection.
Anastasia Vorobyova said: “One of the goals of the national strategy on managing solid municipal waste and secondary material resources in Belarus in the period till 2035 is to reduce the volume of burial of solid municipal waste and respectively increase the volume of usage of solid municipal waste.”
As for Minsk, in 2022 the city used 36% of the total volume of solid municipal waste being generated. This figure was reached partially thanks to the city's existing waste sorting lines with the average annual capacity of 56,900 tonnes and thanks to a waste recycling plant near the waste dump Trostenetsky with the average annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes.
In order to increase the volume of usage of solid municipal waste, the existing waste recycling plant near the waste dump Trostenetsky will be reconstructed by late 2024. The plant's sorting capacity will be raised to 600,000 tonnes per annum. It will allow sending all the waste Minsk generates to the sorting plant.
The waste sorting plant is also supposed to start making refuse-derived fuel (RDF) out of what is left once solid municipal waste is recycled to meet needs of cement production. The plant will process, sort, and fragment large pieces of waste generated by sorting mixed solid municipal waste in order to extract secondary material resources. Small pieces of solid municipal waste will be stabilized thanks to aerobic stabilization in order to make technological soil.
In her words, the project's realization in Minsk will allow increasing the level of usage of municipal waste up to 78% while making about 131,000 tonnes of refuse-derived fuel and shipping the fuel to Belarusian cement mills, which will use it as an alternative fuel.
The Minsk City Executive Committee has opened a tender to buy technological equipment the waste sorting plant needs.
Everything has been prepared in Belarus for hosting the 2nd CIS Games, BelTA learned from Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko after a session of the 2nd CIS Games operations and coordination center.
Igor Petrishenko said: “Full readiness for the 2nd CIS Games has been secured. Guests and teams are already arriving. We welcome them and provide them with everything they need. Athletes intend to get accustomed to our climatic conditions and to visit places of interest.”
Representatives of all the oblasts of Belarus, the Healthcare Ministry, the Transport and Communications Ministry, the Education Ministry, and other government agencies presented reports about the current stage of preparations for the games. Full readiness of all spheres for hosting a large number of guests during the 2nd CIS Games was noted.
Igor Petrishenko remarked that representatives of Tajikistan had already come to Belarus. “They visited sacred places related to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War [of 1941-1945]. Guests of the country will also be offered other sightseeing routes. We enable the entire necessary training and preparation process like that,” the official added.
The 2nd CIS Games are scheduled to take place in 11 Belarusian cities on 4-14 August in 20 sports.
Belarus raised minimum subsistence budget on 1 August 2023. This is provided in Resolution No.26 by the Labor and Social Security Ministry issued on 24 July 2023, BelTA has learned.
The new minimum subsistence budget on average per capita is set at Br364.4, which is 3.5% higher than the minimum subsistence budget which was in effect from 1 May till 31 July 2023.
The minimum subsistence budget across the main social and demographic groups is as follows: Br403.94 for the able-bodied population, Br271.09 for pensioners, Br232.41 for children under 3, Br319.5 for children aged between 3 and 6, Br388.35 for children aged between 6 and 18.
The new minimum subsistence budget will be valid until 31 October 2023.
Various allowances and increases that make part of the social security system and also certain social payments tied to the minimum subsistence rate have been also revised upwards.
These are state benefits to families raising children, social pensions, additional payments to pensioners aged 75 and older who receive pensions in the labor, employment and social security bodies, the carer's allowances for Group I disabled persons or persons who reached the age of 80, allowances and increases to pensions for certain categories of pensioners.
The Belarusian Internal Affairs Ministry will open interactive sites outside all the sport arenas, which will be used during the 2nd CIS Games, BelTA has learned.
The 2nd CIS Games are scheduled to take place in Belarus on 4-14 August. In addition to protecting law and order police officers will organize the campaign “For security together!” The ministry will open interactive sites outside the sport venues where visitors will be able to talk to police officers, examine equipment and weapons on display, and pose for photos together with mascots.
Guests will be able to see mounted police, police officers riding Segway scooters and electric vehicles. They will be able to eat aromatic porridge from field kitchens and will be able to meet with the campaign's mascot Stepanych. By the way, subscribers of the ministry's social networks gave the name to this cheerful character.
Chair of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalya Kochanova took part in the Minsk City Council meeting to discuss the development strategy for MotoVeloZavod and the investment project to recondition the area along 8 Partizansky Avenue in Minsk, BelTA has learned.
“The policy of the president of our country to retain competencies and production capacities has born fruit. The enterprises that we have bailed out keep working and demonstrate efficient performance,” Natalya Kochanova noted.
Aleksandr Lukashenko's main demand for MotoVeloZavod was to preserve the enterprise and to retain competencies. He gave an instruction to strive for maximum localization. The level of localization should increase to at least 50% within five years. Another instruction was to put the production premises in order and to relocate the Minsk City Technopark to the area where MotoVeloZavod stands within three years.
“The instruction of the head of state is mandatory; it is necessary to avoid red tape and to meet deadlines. If the president sets the goal to achieve 50%, then you must do it. Because the president never says anything without due reason. The Horizont company seemed to have no future, but the president came, sorted things out and the situation really took off. A good medical center was built; shop floors were repaired; production capacities can still be used. The president inspected Motovelo. It turned out that a lot could be done here. A technology park was established. Over 100 companies want to join it. This park is highly popular. But heads of enterprises, organizations, central government bodies should have a good understanding of the situation in their area of responsibility. Today they have a clear task: everyone should do their job well. This is the starting point of all our efforts,” Natalya Kochanova added.
The Belarusian National Children's Technopark has signed a cooperation agreement with the representative office of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Russia, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee on Science and Technology.
"By signing the agreement we aim to set up an integrative network educational space for educational and introductory practices, which will allow gifted young people to decide on the choice of a further professional trajectory. Juniors of the center will be able to study in the laboratories specializing in megascience projects, genetic research, innovative technologies in microelectronics, cognitive research," the press service said.
The Kurchatov Institute opened its representative office in Minsk in March of this year. It operates at the Institute of Physics and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Active preparations are underway in Minsk Oblast for the 2nd CIS Games. Cities are being decorated with symbols of the landmark international tournament, BelTA learned from the press service of the Minsk regional administration.
For example, the city of Molodechno, one of the venues of the 2nd CIS Games, are putting up thematic across-the-street banners, boards and life-size figurines of the Rysia the Lynx, the mascot of the Games.
The sporting event of the year will be held in Belarus from 4 to 14 August. Minsk Oblast will host the wrestling tournament (the tennis arena of the Shakhter sports complex in Soligorsk) and a beach volleyball tournament (Victory Park in Molodechno).
The Belarusian National Center for Marketing discussed cooperation with Qatar in trade and economy in Minsk on 23 July, BelTA learned from the NCM press service.
Director of the National Center for Marketing Nikolai Borisevich held a meeting with the outgoing Charge d'Affaires of Qatar in Belarus Meshaal Al-Attiyah.
The parties exchanged views on the current level of Belarusian-Qatari cooperation in trade and economy, including promising areas of cooperation in business.
Festive events dedicated to the 170th anniversary of Belarus' fire service were held in Minsk. On the site near the Sports Palace Minskers saw a parade of retro and modern fire vehicles, units of the Emergencies Ministry, veterans, athletes, representatives of the voluntary fire society, young rescuers-firefighters and a combined orchestra who marched along Pobeditelei Avenue from Freedom Square to the Sports Palace.
