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Over the past three years, Belarus received $238 million in foreign gratuitous aid, Director of the Department for Humanitarian Activities of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate Igor Kudrevich said at a government meeting hosted by the head of state to discuss the use of foreign gratuitous aid on 30 April, BelTA has learned.

Multilateral cooperation on sustainable development of the Belarusian territories affected by the Chernobyl accident was in focus of a meeting in New York, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Belarus' Communications and Information Ministry and the Belarusian postal service Belpochta have launched a variety of postal projects in the run-up to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, BelTA learned from Belpochta's press service.

The two-day international conference “Great Patriotic War in the Fate of the Belarusian People” will open at the Belarusian State University (BSU) on 23 April.

More than a hundred educational facilities in Belarus were named after heroes of the Great Patriotic War, head of the main department for educational outreach and youth policy at the Education Ministry Eduard Tomilchik said during a round-table session in BelTA's press center on 21 April.

The Education Ministry is actively involved in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

The EPAM company and the Minsk development center of the Wargaming company (SOOO Game Stream) have donated the Belmedtekhnika company of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry 700,000 FFP2 respirators from the world's leading manufacturer 3M, BelTA has learned.

Senior officials of the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry will supervise coronavirus response efforts in certain regions, Chair of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Natalya Kochanova told reporters before she met with healthcare workers in Vitebsk on 16 April, BelTA has learned.

Around 65,000 people watched productions of Belarus' Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater online in March and April, BelTA learned from the theater.

Belarus shapes its history policy objectively, without juxtaposing various periods and peoples, Director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Vyacheslav Danilovich said at another meeting of the Expert Community project “History policy: Memory about the war” in the BelTA press center on 15 April.