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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...

VITEBSK, 26 June (BelTA) – By the 23rd international festival of arts, Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk, the oblast center will start offering hotel rooms decorated in the style of different countries and continents, BelTA learnt from Director General of Vitebskturist Company Lyudmila Senkovskaya. A part of the Vetraz Hotel will be decorated in the theme, The Wind of Wander. The work is underway to decorate the rooms in the traditions of Africa, France and Scotland. Vitebsk guests will have...

VITEBSK, 23 June (BelTA) – Representatives of Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Germany will take part in the Energy Week that will be held in Polotsk on 23-29 June, BelTA learnt from the Polotsk District Executive Committee. The highlight of the event will be the exhibition-seminar “Renewable energy in the energy conservation system” and the international conference “Covenant of Mayors as an innovative approach to energy management”. Invitations to take part in the events were...