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VITEBSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Vitebsk Department Store is the first retail outlet of Vitebsk ready to introduce the Tax Free system, BelTA learnt from director of the department store Svetlana Karput. At the moment Vitebsk Department Store is installing a special automated system with all the necessary software and testing it. The system will be commissioned by the end of H1 2014, so the foreign guests and participants of the International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will be...

VITEBSK, 18 April (BelTA) – The first phase of ticket sales for the 23rd International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is starting in Vitebsk on 18-19 April, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Culture Center. The tickets can be bought using cash at all the box offices of the Vitebsk Culture Center or using a bank card from the directorate of the festival or at the Vitebsk Concert Hall starting from 10:00. “During the first two days, tickets will be sold only in Vitebsk, after...

VITEBSK, 8 April (BelTA) – Students from four countries are competing at the 3rd international modern dance festival, Make a Step Forward, in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Oblast Committee of the BRSM Youth Union. The three-day dance forum has gathered the best dancers of 16 universities of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. Belarus is represented at the festival by Belarusian National Technical University, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics,...

VITEBSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Vitebskkhlebprom has plans to start exporting toast bread to Russia in 2014, BelTA learnt from chief technologist of the company Olga Pavluchenko. The Vitebsk-based company started making crunchy toasts under the Tostini trademark in the first half of 2013. A new shop floor with the total area of 696.8 square meters was built in the company to produce rusks, bakery products and toast bread. The project cost is estimated at about Br31.4 billion. The area of...

VITEBSK, 24 March (BelTA) – Cultures of five countries will be presented at the second open interuniversity celebration of Nowruz, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Culture Center. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Tatarstan, and Turkmenistan celebrate the Nowruz holiday every year. Vitebsk universities have foreign students from these countries. The students will present their Nowruz celebration traditions to the residents of Vitebsk on 24 March. The celebration will start at the Culture...

VITEBSK, 19 March (BelTA) – The Heroes Park will be laid in Dubrovno to mark the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from the Nazis, BelTA learnt from the Dubrovno District Executive Committee. In 2014 the park will eternalize the memory of nine Heroes of the Soviet Union who took part in the liberation of the region from the Nazis. “The idea appeared two years ago. The park has already been beautified. This year there are plans to install steles and memorial stones in honor of...