VELIKY NOVGOROD, 23 April (BelTA) – The Novgorod Oblast administration has plans to restore air traffic with Minsk and Gomel, Novgorod Oblast First Deputy Governor Veronika Minina said answering a question from BelTA. She commented on the proposal of Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Vladimir Semashko to build a new runway in Veliky Novgorod by Belarus.
“I remember my childhood: we flew to Gomel, Minsk. Now we want to revive these flights, this is one of the tasks we are addressing together with the federal center,” Veronika Minina said.
As for the new runway, it is to be built not far from Veliky Novgorod, in the place where the Krechevitsy military airfield was previously located. “This issue is being worked out upon the instruction of the government,” the first vice-governor said.
In 2020, trade between Belarus and Novgorod Oblast totaled $57.5 million, 23.8% down year-on-year. At the same time, Belarus' export to Novgorod Oblast increased by 18.4%, while import from the Russian region shrank by 39.35%. Belarus' major exports include dairy products, eggs, and other food products, plastics, timber, fertilizers, electric machinery and equipment. There are 15 companies with Belarusian capital in Novgorod Oblast.
Novgorod Oblast First Deputy Governor Veronika Minina met with journalists within the framework of a press tour of Novgorod Oblast organized for Belarusian and Russian journalists by the Union State Standing Committee in association with the National Press Center of Belarus and the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.
