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If you plan to start a business in Belarus, you should consider the changes in the issues of approving the names of legal entities, state registration, termination of activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, maintaining the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter – “EGR”), provided for by the Resolution No. 96 of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, dated June 18, 2020 (hereinafter – the “Resolution”).

During the negotiations that took place on June 19, 2020 the Heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Russia signed the intergovernmental Treaty on Mutual Recognition of Visas and Other Issues Related to the Entry and Exit of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons on the Territory of the States that are Parties to The Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State.

Firstly, on June 11, 2020 the Ministry of Healthcare of Belarus excluded the following countries from the list of those, where COVID-19 cases were registered. Later, on June 25, 2020, 14 countries were excluded additionally.

On June 3, 2020 SCHNEIDER GROUP Belarus held a webinar on “Debunking the myths – why Belarus is better than other CIS countries for investments ?!”

On May 25, 2020, the President of the Republic of Belarus signed Decree № 3 “On granting of free aid” in order to improve registration, taxation, and use of free foreign aid, which enters into force starting August 27, 2020.