The Belarusian-Slovak business forum titled as Innovations is a Way to Successful Integration will take place as part of the international art festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 12-14 July, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Oblast marketing center. The forum provides platform for meetings of Belarusian authorities and businessmen with foreign partners: international organizations, businessmen and financial organizations. Apart from establishing useful contacts for advancing innovative...

Vitebsk Hydroelectric Power Plant will join China's One Belt, One Road initiative, Yao Han Wu, Executive Director at China National Electric Engineering Company (CNEEC) which is building the Belarusian power plant in Vitebsk, said during a roundtable on Belarus' advantages and prospects in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt on 28 June, BelTA has learned. Yao Han Wu stressed the importance of the One Belt, One Road initiative put forward by China President Xi Jinping. "Now it...

The International Chagall Plein Air will be revived in Vitebsk to mark the 25th anniversary of the Marc Chagall Museum, Director of the Marc Chagall Museum Irina Voronova told a press conference dedicated to the celebrations of Vitebsk Day on 21 June, BelTA has learned. "The First Chagall Plein Air was held in 1991. The second one took place in 1997. They were really big events taking into account the number of participating countries. Then there was a long hiatus. 19 years have passed...

Vitebsk was the first regional capital to welcome UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Belarus Sanaka Samarasinha who came to hear out and consider initiatives regarding the implementation of the new United Nations campaign Inclusive Belarus, BelTA has learned. Representatives of the UNDP office in Belarus met with local government authorities, directors and employees of agencies providing social care and cultural services, public associations and funds on 15 June....

The Vitebsk Oblast electrical company Vitebskenergo has signed a long-term contract with the German company Siemens Aktiengesellschaft. In line with the contract the German company will take care of maintenance of the combined-cycle gas turbine PGU-427 at the Lukoml state district power plant, Vitebskenergo representatives told BelTA. The combined-cycle gas turbine was initially built by the Chinese company CMEC. The Belarusian-Chinese contract on the warranty service of the turbine...

A meeting of war veterans of Belarus, Russia and Latvia at the Friendship Hill in Verkhnedvinsk District on 2 July, BelTA learnt from the main department for ideology, culture and youth affairs of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. This year's traditional meeting is organized by the Belarusian side. The organizing committee has been headed by Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies Vladimir Terentyev. The preparations for the event are already underway. Representatives of...