Due to the epidemiological situation in neighboring countries, Belarus has temporarily restricted entry for a number of categories of individuals from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia via ground checkpoints starting Thursday, Anton Bychkovsky, spokesman for the Belarusian State Border Committee, told Sputnik

New Belarusian Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov said on Thursday that his main goals in the near future would be to ensure security in Minsk amid ongoing anti-government protests and to hire a new team of professionals

The Russian Muslim-majority southern region of Chechnya and Belarus intend to exchange journalists for professional internship starting from next year, deputy minister of information and press of the Chechen Republic, Zurab Tsentroev, told Sputnik