Production of oil and condensate was 711,600 bpd in August, down from 717,000 bpd a month earlier and below 718,000 bpd produced in October 2018, when members of OPEC+ agreed to reduce oil production gradually.

Without strong efforts both bottom-up and top-down to preserve love for literature, the domestic book market may continue to suffer.

Belarus presses ahead with its mass repression of opposition activists, with a court imposing long jail terms on two prominent opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko.