On 13 July 2006, the Embassy of Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus gifted to the National Library of Belarus a collection of books by Russian publishing houses.

Currently about 22% of the NLB's new acquisitions are book gifts; there is an important source of the Library's funds stocking. The most part of them were gifted by the Embassy of Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus on behalf of the Government of Russian Federation and the Government of the City of Moscow, as well as by different Russian publishing houses and book-selling organizations. In the current year the National Library of Belarus got 548 names of books that were exposed on a stand "Books of Russia" at the XIII-th Minsk International Book Fair Exhibition "Books of Belarus - 2006".