Kopyl regional executive committee

From March 28 to April 4, the republican voluntary action “Forest Week” will be held for the thirteenth time in Minsk Oblast, the press service of the Ministry of Forestry reports.

The action will be dedicated to the Year of the Small Motherland and is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. And its main goal is to attract public attention to the need for careful attitude to the forest.

During this event, participants will be engaged in forest planting, cleanliness in forests and restoration of places of mass recreation.

Anyone can join the "Forest Week". To do this, contact the nearest leshoz or forestry. Forestry institutions will provide all the necessary equipment and planting material, and will also show objects in need of restoration.

By the way, the initiator of the action is the Ministry of Forestry.

In large cities of the region, they plan to replace buses with an internal combustion engine with electric buses.

In total, 110 environmentally friendly cars must be purchased: Soligorsk - 40, Molodechno - 20, Borisov - 20, Slutsk - 15, Zhodino - 15.

Moreover, the regions need an electric bus with a range of at least 250 km on a single charge.

The project is implemented by Minoblavtotrans OJSC together with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. And so that the movement on such a public electric transport was even more convenient, a separate lane can be allocated on the M3 highway, at the end of the reconstruction.

The seminar “The day of Chile in Belarus” will be held in Minsk on 31 March, BelTA has learned from the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Chile's delegation will consist of the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the trade representation of Chile and also executives of large enterprises producing cheese, vine, seafood, nuts and dried fruit, fresh fruit and vegetables.

The Chilean delegation will lay out the prospects of trade and economic cooperation with the countries of Latin America to the Belarusian business community and tell about the best export promotion practices in Chile. The negotiations between the participants of the seminar will be conducted.

The event is held by the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the trade representation at the Chile Embassy in Russia.

A new house for 192 apartments for residents of the capital is already being built in Smolevichi. They plan to hand it over in the summer.

The infrastructure is developing in this city. The first shopping center is already ready for operation. The issue of clinics, kindergartens and schools is being addressed. Also, from the Mound of Glory towards Smolevichy, there is a reconstruction of the first section of the R-53 highway. Note, the road from Minsk through Smolevichy, Zhodino to Borisov will be made concrete and four-lane.

In addition, the leadership of Minsk Oblast offers the city of Minsk to develop a plot in Rudensk with an area of 73 hectares.

The Belarusian National History Museum will host the national forum on local history on 12-13 March. The event is timed to the Year of Native Land, BelTA learned from the museum.

The forum will bring together about 230 participants: local historians, workers of cultural, educational, science and information institutions, university students, students of general and vocational schools, further education students and representatives of public organizations. The forum aims to review the state of affairs in this science, to promote historical, cultural and natural heritage of Belarusian cities and villages, to raise awareness of local history projects in Belarus, to create conditions for dialogue between local historians and to popularize the national tangible and spiritual heritage among young people.

The results of the contest for the best local history publication for 2017-2019 will be summed up during the forum. More than 200 books are participating in it. The program will feature the presentation of most interesting projects, and an exhibition of local history literature from the National Library and publications of local historians.

The forum is organized by the Belarusian National History Museum, the Belarusian Cultural Foundation with the support of the Culture Ministry and the Information Ministry of Belarus. The partners of the forum are the National Library, the Belarusian Writers Union and the Zvyazda Publishing House.

Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia's Federal Assembly Valentina Matviyenko handed over a capsule with the soil from the fields of sanguinary battles near Rzhev to the Memorial Church of All Saints in Minsk during her visit to Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The capsule contains the soil from two places: from the “height-200”, for which the battles lasted for several months, and from the mass grave near the village of Kokoshkino where thousands of unknown soldiers were buried. The capsule handover ceremony is timed to coincide with the international action of remembrance “To the Glory of the Common Victory!

The event was attended by MPs, representatives of the diplomatic corps and the Belarusian Orthodox Church. After the ceremony, Valentina Matviyenko talked to the Leningrad siege survivors who settled in Minsk. They said that they are satisfied with life in Belarus, actively participate in various events, often visit schools, meet with young people.

After the ceremony Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel gave Valentina Matviyenko an icon depicting Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk.

A capsule with soil from the battlefield near Rzhev was placed into the crypt of the All Saints Church in Minsk. It was the 78th capsule of this kind. The crypt has 504 niches grouped into sectors. The soil from the Rzhev battlefield was placed next to the soil taken from other major battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, including the Battle of Kursk, Partisan Operation Breakthrough in Vitebsk Oblast, Vyazma Operation. “Rzhev is an important milestone in the history of the Great Patriotic War. It is the place of one of the deadliest fights; the land near Rzhev is soaked with blood, this place is sacred for us. The fact that it will be kept in the crypt of the All Saints Church in Minsk is a great honor,” Director of the Belarusian Cultural Center of Spiritual Revival Aleksandr Gostev said.

According to him, a memorial museum will open in the All Saints Church within the framework of the campaign "To the Glory of the Common Victory!" ahead of 9 May. Its exposition will illustrate major battles in which the Belarusians took part in: from the battle on the Nemiga River to the Afghan war. The museum will make its visitors familiar with the history behind every capsule in the crypt with the help of photos, valuable historical artifacts, and findings handed over to the church by its parishioners.

“We do not keep count of the capsules, we keep count of the events behind these capsules, because each of them is a stage of the past. It is a new method of preserving the memory in order to be able to fully answer questions of future generations about our history, as veterans leave us one by one,” Archpriest

A detailed map of Minsk and Minsk Oblast has been published on the georesource of remote Earth probing data, BelTA learned from the website of Belarus' State Property Committee.

The Belarusian aerial phototopography enterprise BelPSHAGI took ortho-photos of Minsk and adjacent areas, including the Sokol suburb and the Minsk National Airport district in September 2019 with a view to creating the land information system of Minsk.

The system, which was commissioned by the State Property Committee, is designed to improve the efficiency of land management, accounting and control in Minsk.

The total area of the footage is approximately 1,000km2. The spatial resolution of photos is 15 centimeters in one pixel.

At a committee meeting devoted to summing up the results of 2019 and plans for 2020 in Dzerzhinsk, the chairman of the committee on labor, employment and social protection of Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Tamara Krasovskaya said that the nominal average monthly salary in the region for 2019 amounted to 1098 rubles, an increase to the level 2018 - 13.7%.

Representatives of such spheres as mining earned 1,807.8 rubles, information and communications - 1,945.4 rubles. Education workers were charged 729.9 rubles, institutions of creativity, entertainment and leisure, sports - 756.5 rubles. State employees received 816 rubles, agricultural workers - 835.9 rubles.

Also in the region they control both the increase in salaries and the timeliness of payments. The number of salary debtors is also decreasing. In 2019, the region accounted for only 5.9% of the total number of debtor organizations. In 12 districts out of 23, wage arrears were not allowed.

The plans for the current year include ensuring further salary growth, monitoring problem organizations, and narrowing the wage gap between the public sector and the general level in Belarus.

Minsk will host the UEFA Congress for the first time in 2021. This decision has been made at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Amsterdam, BelTA has learned.

The committee also approved the rules of European club competitions for upcoming seasons.

On 3 March Amsterdam will host the 44th Ordinary UEFA Congress with the participation of the heads of 55 national member associations. Belarus will be represented by President of the Belarusian Football Federation Vladimir Bazanov, his first deputy Yuri Vergeichik and Secretary General Sergei Zhardetsky.

The UEFA Congress is UEFA's supreme executive body, dealing with a variety of matters including election of the UEFA President and the UEFA Executive Committee members. It is held every year in one of the member states.

The CIS Executive Committee will host a meeting of the working group of the CIS Council for Cooperation in Education in Minsk on 2 March. The participants will finalize the draft agreement of cooperation in accreditation of educational organizations and institutions of the CIS states, BelTA has learned from the CIS press service.

The Science and Higher Education Ministry of Russia and the CIS Council of the Interparliamentary Assembly proposed to draft the agreement in April 2017.

The CIS Commission on Quality Assurance of Education was set up to conduct independent evaluation of the quality of the education and public accreditation and prepare the draft agreement. The commission is run by the Russian National Accreditation Agency. The commission prepared the draft agreement and sent it to the CIS Executive Committee in January 2020. The vommission members from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian and Tajikistan participated in the drafting process.

The aim of state accreditation of the educational activities is to confirm its correspondence to the national standards applied in the CIS educational organizations and institutions. The joint accreditation body will be set up to take agreed decisions on state accreditation of the CIS educational organizations and institutions or to decline state accreditation following the monitoring and analysis of the educational programs with regard to each educational level of every profession.