Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed laws on preventing the rehabilitation of Nazism and amending the laws on counteracting extremism. Both laws had been passed by the Belarusian parliament and are registered in the national registry of legal acts of the Republic of Belarus, which means they have been signed by the head of state, BelTA has learned.

Green mobility makes small towns more comfortable and greener, expands opportunities for new digital technologies, and stimulates new partnerships and interregional interaction, BelTA learned the UNDP office in Belarus as it summed up the results of the Green Cities project.

Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke about the prospects for cooperation with Russia as he received the credentials from foreign ambassadors in Minsk on 13 May, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian Healthcare Ministry together with the Russian Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) is conducting a study of herd immunity against COVID-19 in Belarus.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with senior members of the Constitutional Commission of Belarus on 13 May, BelTA has learned.

As of 1 May 2021, 98,561 deposit accounts were opened for large families under Belarus' family capital program, 16,182 of which were opened under the new program for 2020-2024, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Labor and Social Security Ministry.

A project to study immunity against COVID-19 has started in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Healthcare Ministry.

A solemn procession went from Lenina Square to Pobedy Square where flowers were laid at a monument in honor of Soviet soldiers, partisans, and underground resistance fighters of Vitebsk Oblast as part of the celebration of Victory Day in Vitebsk on 9 May.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko presented state awards to Belarusians who distinguished themselves in various fields of expertise, BelTA has learned.

On 6 May, Vitebsk State Medical University hosted a ceremony to unveil a commemorative plaque for Sergei Belov, holder of the USSR State Prize, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, PhD of Medicine, colonel of the medical corps, holder of the Order of the Red Star and Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st Class.

Belarus and Russia are close to creating an economic platform of the Union State, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Semashko told the media after a ceremony to lay a wreath on behalf of the embassy to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on 6 May, BelTA has learned.

As of early May 2021, more than 400,000 people signed up in healthcare organizations of the country to get a vaccine against the coronavirus, said Irina Glinskaya, the deputy chief physician of the National Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, BelTA has learned.

A high level of vaccination in Belarus is ensured because state funding is used to buy the drugs, BelTA learned from Yulia Avkhukova, Head of the Central Office for Budget and Finance Oversight of the State Control Committee of Belarus.

Vitebsk Oblast rescuers have held their first online parade for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and former firefighters.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko to receive his report on 4 May, BelTA has learned.

Spring crops in Belarus have been sown on 1.365 million hectares, which is 54.7% of the target area, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko donated a recreated Turov Cross to the Cathedral of Sts.