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Tennis player Aryna Sabalenka and trampolinist Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya were named Belarus’ Female Athletes of the Year 2024 at the National Olympic Committee Awards ceremony in Minsk on 25 December, BelTA learned.

In January-November 2024, Belarusian enterprises increased export sales to Russia through the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) by 9.5 times. The total amount of exchange transactions over 11 months amounted to $771.3 million, with 91% of supplies coming from the agro-industrial complex, Deputy Head of Foreign Economic Relations at BUCE German Puzyrny said as he spoke at the seminar “25 Years of the Union State. Results and Prospects of Industrial Dialogue Development” in Mogilev, BelTA learned from the BUCE press service.

We see great prospects for car production in the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Belarusian Industry Minister Aleksandr Yefimov told the media, BelTA has learned.

The human rights commissioners of Russia and Ukraine exchanged parcels and letters for prisoners of war on the territory of Belarus, Russian human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said in her Telegram channel, BelTA learned.

 The foreign policy pursued by Poland can result in an uncontrolled escalation in Europe, BelTA learned from Press Secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Glaz.

Representatives of the governments of Belarus and Oman signed documents on cooperation and outlined roadmaps by sectors  during the visit of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to Muscat, BelTA learned.