This is reported by BelTA.

Until recently, Russia had an embassy in Belarus in Minsk and a consulate general in Brest (since 1994).

This year in May, it was announced that another consulate general will be opened in Hrodna.

Then the Russian ambassador to Belarus

Barys Gryzlov

, during a meeting with the head of the Grodno regional executive committee ,

Vladimir Karanik

, said that the decision to open the Russian consulate in Grodno "was taken and discussed at the level of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus."