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1 February 2018
The ticket sales for the festival of arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk will start on 23 February, Director General of the Vitebsk cultural center, the festival director Alexander Sidorenko told the first press conference dedicated to the 27th edition of the festival, BelTA has learned.
The tickets will go on sale in three phases. The first one will begin on 23 February. The visitors will be able to purchase tickets for solo concerts at the Summer Amphitheater, the opening and closing...
26 January 2018
Interregional cooperation between Poland and Vitebsk Oblast has been gaining momentum, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Poland to Belarus Konrad Pawlik said as he met with Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies Vladimir Terentyev, BelTA has learned.
According to the diplomat, the relations between Poland and Vitebsk Oblast have been particularly effective and fruitful the past two years. "Twinning relationship have been established between our regions. We have...
28 December 2017
Vitebsk plans to establish twinning relations and sign cooperation agreements with the cities of Lublin (Poland) and Kosice (Slovakia) in 2018, Vitebsk Mayor Viktor Nikolaikin said during the session of the Vitebsk City Council of Deputies, BelTA has learned.
"Now we are in the middle of concluding the agreements on establishing twinning relations with Kosice and Lublin and are working on the possibility of signing similar documents with the Estonian Tartu and Lithuanian Panevezys,"...
19 December 2017
Belarus and China's Drex Food Group intend to sign a $250 million investment agreement by the 2017 year end to establish dairy farms in Vitebsk Oblast. The matter was discussed during the visit of Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats to China, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in China.
After official meetings in Beijing, the Belarusian delegation held an agricultural forum Made in Belarus, which brought together Belarus' leading companies.
Following the...
12 December 2017
Art experts from Belarus, Russia and Latvia will participate in the scientific readings to be held as part of the 29th installment of the Ivan Sollertinsky International Music Festival in Vitebsk, Director of the Research Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music Nelly Matsaberidze, the organizer of the 19th scientific readings, told a press briefing on 7 December, BelTA has learned.
The central theme of the two-day readings that opened on 7 December is the personality of Ivan...
5 December 2017
OOO Grand Mercury-CX has been registered as a new resident company in the free economic zone (FEZ) Vitebsk. The company intends to start manufacturing light aircraft, BelTA learned from the head of the FEZ Vitebsk administration Sergei Yurkevich.
The Belarusian-Russian joint venture intends to start making the multipurpose light aircraft Mercury in a FEZ Vitebsk sector in a Vitebsk city suburb. Over $7 million will be invested in the project. Over 100 jobs are supposed to be created. The...