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Chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee Yuri Karayev told the media how many negligent agricultural workers in Grodno Oblast are expected to be called up for military service, BelTA has learned.

Education Minister Andrei Ivanets shared details about the future Academy of Intellectual Technologies as he talked to the media. The university of the future concept was discussed at a meeting with the head of state on 4 August, BelTA has learned.

The Latvian road carriers’ association Latvijas auto has opposed the government’s plans to close the Paternieki border crossing (adjacent to Grigorovshchina) on the border with Belarus, local media report.

The Belarusian National Union of Consumer Societies Belkoopsoyuz increased its procurement of agricultural products in H1 2026, Oksana Skinder, Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Belkoopsoyuz, said at a press conference on progress in the procurement of fruit, vegetable, and wild-harvested produce from the public, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian National Union of Consumer Societies Belkoopsoyuz procures not just cucumbers and strawberries from the public, Oksana Skinder, Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Belkoopsoyuz, said at a press conference on progress in the procurement of fruit, vegetable, and wild-harvested produce from the public, BelTA has learned.

On 23 July, Belarus handed over to Poland information about a possible terrorist attack. Warsaw has yet to issue any coherent statements, but Polish media continue to discuss the story. Polish propaganda, for its part, is carefully framing the narrative. Allegedly, the person who plotted the attack is just a desperate man, and his threats to kill children are nothing more than emotions.

The idea of a new university, the Academy of Intelligent Technologies, has been placed on the agenda of a meeting chaired by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 4 August, BelTA has learned.

About 22 kilometers of bridge structures were built and repaired in Belarus over the five-year period, Aleksei Fedoseyev, Head of the Design and Technology Department at the Mostostroi company, said in a new episode of BelTA’s The Nation Speaks project.

The Belarusian government held a comprehensive review of preparations for the new academic year at a meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Natalya Petkevich, BelTA learned from the government’s press service.

The only border checkpoint on the Latvia-Belarus border remains closed, Latvian television channel LSM reports. Over the weekend, LSM journalists visited the Latvian side of the border and spoke with frustrated drivers.