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VITEBSK, 5 August (BelTA) – The celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of the Roman Catholic Church in Vidzy, Braslav District (Vitebsk Oblast, will include a relay, a secular festival and a solemn service, Rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Priest Alfred told BelTA. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vidzy (the second largest Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, second only to the church in Budslav) will arrange three-day celebrations to mark...

MINSK, 29 July (BelTA) – In order to restore historical heraldic symbols and create new ones in some administrative and territorial units Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree to institute official emblems of these towns, BelTA learned from the presidential press service. The decree instituted the emblem of the Babinovichi agrotown, Liozno District, Vitebsk Oblast. In Grodno Oblast the document established emblems of the village of Lyubcha, Novogrudok District,...

VITEBSK, 21 July (BelTA) – The 23rd International Youth Camp Be-La-Rus will open in Verkhnedvinsk District, Vitebsk Oblast, on 24 July, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk Oblast office of the BRSM Youth Union. The youth camp Be-La-Rus takes place at the junction of the borders of Belarus, Latvia and Russia near the Mound of Friendship which was erected as a symbol of cooperation between partisans of the three countries every year. The camp is organized by the BRSM Youth Union, the Youth...

VITEBSK, 14 July (BelTA) – The 23rd International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will close on 14 July, BelTA has learned. The final day of the festival has a diverse program. The Vitebsk Concert Hall will host meetings with Russian theater companies. The State Academic Dance Company Alan (North Ossetia) will perform at the Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic Hall. The festival will be crowned by a gala concert at the Summer Amphitheater. Partaking in the concert will be Oleg...

VITEBSK, 7 July (BelTA) – By tradition Vitebsk will arrange the event "Visiting Marc and Bella's" to celebrate Marc Chagall's birthday, BelTA learned from Director of the Vitebsk Marc Chagall Museum Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya. The annual festival will be held in the garden of the Marc Chagall House-Museum in Pokrovskaya Street. The organizers invite the city residents and guests to attend the literary-musical evening with the participation of Jewish artists. The daughter of the...

VITEBSK, 30 June (BelTA) – Delegations of Armenia, Bulgaria, Israel, Latvia and Russia took part in the celebrations of the 1040th anniversary of Vitebsk on 28 June, BelTA has learned. Representative of the Bulgarian delegation Ivan Ivanov told reporters that the delegation from Bulgaria’s Haskovo came to Vitebsk in order to congratulate its residents on the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from the Nazis and the 1040th anniversary of Vitebsk. Ivan Ivanov stressed that the...