From June 10^th to June 14^th, 2024, the Head of the testing laboratory of the Forensic expert kollegium, Konstantin Dadzkou, improved his qualifications at the State educational institution "Institute for advanced training and retraining of personnel of the State committee for forensic expertise of the Republic of Belarus" under the program "Modern approaches to conducting forensic commodity expertise".

On June 6th, 2024, the "Belarus Segodnya" newspaper published an article dedicated to the fight for their rights of consumers who purchased a lawn mower that subsequently failed after only a few uses. The seller's inspection of the lawn mower's functionality, as well as an expertise commissioned by another expert organization, showed that the breakdown occurred due to the consumer's violation of the maintenance and operation rules. Buyers who disagreed with the conclusions of the expertise contacted the consumer protection society. After a statement of claim was filed with the Partizansky district court of Minsk, a repeat expertise of the lawn mower was conducted by the Forensic expert kollegium. The expertise showed that the consumer was not at fault for the breakdown of the lawn mower, and that the product had a defect made at the stage of manufacturing the cylinder and engine assembly. Also, during the expertise, it was established that the lawn mower, which was positioned for sale as Swedish, was in fact made in China. As a result, the consumers were refunded the cost of the lawn mower, as well as the amount for penalties and moral damages. The seller also paid more than 4 thousand rubles in fines, state fees, payments to the consumer protection society and the cost of the expertise.

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On June, the 5^th, the Head of the testing laboratory of the Forensic expert kollegium, Konstantin Dadzkou, held a seminar at the Belarusian republican bar association on the topic “Features of conducting a special psychological study using a contact polygraph in a trial".

On June 6th, 2024 the Director of the Forensic expert kollegium Gennady Ignatkovich took part in the international conference "Advocacy in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. International principles and standards. Ways of interaction". The event was organized by the International union of advocates, the Federal union of advocates of Russia, and the Belarusian republican bar association with the support of the Forensic expert kollegium.

The conference is being held at the Robinson Club hotel in Minsk. The event was attended by representatives of the legal profession, heads of organizations and associations of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

During the conference, the Presidium of the International union of advocates presented Gennady Ignatkovich with Gratitude for his fruitful work in strengthening friendship and international cooperation between lawyers of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

On 22th-24th of May, 2024, expert on technical expertise of the Forensic expert kollegium Valentin Surma, expert on technical expertise Yuri Rakau and specialist on auto-technical expertise Vitaly Talapila completed training course on the topic "Electric vehicles: features of design, operation, diagnostics" at the subsidiary "Minsk state automotive college named after academician M.S. Vysotsky" of the educational institution "Republican institute of professional education".