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The House of Moscow cultural and business centre will open in Minsk in the near future, First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin told Prime Minister of
Belarus Sergei Sidorsky in Minsk.
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GOVERNMENT APPROVES LIVING WAGE ON AVERAGE PER CAPITA FOR EVERY SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP
By resolution #90 of January 25 the Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved the living wage on average per capita for every socio-economic group in the prices of December 2005 for one month. The validity period of this social standard – from February to April 2006.
The living wage on average per capita will make Br158,120. This index makes Br174,410 for the able-bodied citizens of the republic, Br140,120 – for pensioners, Br166,560 – for students, Br182,190 – for children aged between 3 and 16, Br131,840 – for children under three.
Òhe living wage approved was 4.9 per cent more than the one valid from November 1, 2005 to January 31,2006.
In line with the law “On living wage in the Republic of Belarus” this social standard is approved on a quarterly basis by the government in the prices of the last month of every quarter. It is designed to help analyze and forecast the living standards, to render state social aid to low-income families, to calculate minimum state social-labour guarantees. The living wage is used to assess the level of incomes of people, pensions, benefits and other social payments, to define the level and scope of poverty.
The living wage for various socio-demographic groups includes such material benefits and services as: foodstuffs, clothes, footwear, medicines, hygienic things and also housing-municipal, transport and consumer services, services of preschool establishments. The amount of every service and benefit is determined on the basis of the consumption norms developed by scientists and specialists of corresponding ministries and other republican state management bodies and also experts of the associations of employers and trade unions.
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Information support from the Republican Unitary Enterprise Belarusian News Agency
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 Belarus would like to become a key trading partner for
Venezuela, Viktor Sheiman, a special aide to the President of Belarus on special matters, co-chairman of the joint Belarusian-Venezuelan high level commission,
noted during his meeting with Rafael Ramirez, Minister of Energy and Petroleum of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in Minsk on 2 July.
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 The Belarusian market is a priority one for Sberbank of Russia, said Sberbank President, Chairman of the Board German Gref as he met with Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky on 1 July.
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 It is necessary to attract external investments into the development of the Pripyat Polesie area, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky told a session of the
Council of Ministers Board. The session tabled a draft state programme for comprehensive development of the Pripyat Polesie in 2009-2015.
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 Belarus is ready to step up Belarus-Lithuania cooperation in
the areas of tourism and alternative energy and the interregional collaboration, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky as he met with his Lithuanian
counterpart Andrius Kubilius in Grodno on June 26.
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 The goals set out in the social and economic development
programme for 2006-2010 are met ahead of schedule, First Vice-Premier Vladimir Semashko said when speaking in the House of Representatives of the National
Assembly.
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 Belarus is interested in cooperation with the Rostov oblast in agricultural mechanical engineering, engine manufacturing and promotion of sophisticated products, said Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky as he met with Rostov Oblast Governor Vladimir Chub in Minsk on June 25.
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 Kazakhstan attaches great significance to the development of trade and economic cooperation with Belarus, said Kazakh Emergencies Minister, co-chair of the Belarus-Kazakhstan commission for trade and economic cooperation Vladimir Bozhko during the meeting of business circles of the two countries in Brest on June 18.
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 Belarus and Turkmenistan plan to ink an agreement on cooperation in education, BelTA learnt from Vladimir Shapurov, Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Education Ministry, as he commented on the Council of Ministers’ resolution No. 770 of June 11.
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