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A groundbreaking ceremony for a plant to produce Amkodor machines and equipment for post-harvest grain processing took place in the capital of Bashkortostan during the visit of a Belarusian delegation on 21 September, BelTA has learned.
EU small print sheds light on Belarus repression
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko (r) with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in June (Photo: Viktor Orban)
Brussels, 21. Dec 2020, 08:34
Details of last week s new EU sanctions on Belarus have shed light on how the regime is trying to crush a peaceful uprising. According to witnesses, he personally supervised and took part in torturing unlawfully detained protesters, the EU s legal gazette, the Official Journal, said of Siarhei Kalinnik, a 41-year old police colonel from Minsk.
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Belarusian Amkodor to implement nine investment projects
Aleksandr Shakutin. An archive photo
MINSK, 15 December (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Amkodor intends to implement nine investment projects. The plans were mentioned by Amkodor Chairman of the Board Aleksandr Shakutin during a presentation of the operation of OOO Amkodor-Mozha in Krupki, Mogilev Oblast on 15 December, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Shakutin said: “We ve worked out a strategy on developing the holding company for the next three years. It provides for designing and starting the production of 120 machines and vehicles for various branches of the economy. Those will be forestry machines, agricultural machines, municipal vehicles, and road construction machines. Respectively we are working on manufacturing new parts. As many as nine new investment projects will be launched not only in Belarus but the Russian Federation as well.”