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From the blog of Eric Gozlan at The Times of Israel

The list includes BelAZ, Integral, Atlant, Belarusian Metallurgical Plant, Minsk Tractor Plant, and other industrial giants.

A Greek Catholic website and a YouTube interview with a Catholic priest are the latest religious items banned by courts as "extremist" and added to the Information Ministry's "Republican List of Extremist Materials". Deputy Information Minister Igor Buzovsky, who is also Deputy Chair of the "Republican Expert Commission for the Evaluation of Symbols, Attributes, and Information Products for the presence (or absence) in them of signs of Extremism", defended such bans. "This is done exclusively on the basis of the law," he insisted.

After his last Mass in Grodno's Holy Redeemer Church on 27 December, Polish citizen Fr Jozef Geza left Belarus after 25 years' service. Religious affairs official Aleksandr Rumak rejected his bishop’s request to extend the permission which foreign citizens need to conduct religious work. Rumak "won't comment" on his decision, his colleague Andrei Aryayev said. Last July, Rumak refused the latest request for permission for Fr Klemens Werth. A Russian citizen, he can therefore serve only in an administrative role in Vitebsk diocese.

“On 10 October 2022, EU road carriers got an opportunity to obtain a permit for the international carriage of goods through our country in the Transport Inspectorate of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry. The registration rules for the EU road carriers getting Belarusian permits have been changed,” the ministry's press service said.