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VITEBSK, 9 October (BelTA) - The Vitebsk Regional History Museum has arranged an exhibition of paintings, art objects and installations of the members of the Vitebsk Arts Union "Kvadrat" - Galina and Vasily Vasilyevs, Alexander Malei, Alexander Dosuzhev, Tatiana Makdetsova, Alexandra Slepova, and also suprematists from Minsk Anastasia Goncharova and Vladimir Makarkova, BelTA learned. The exhibition includes 36 works made in various techniques: acrylic on canvas, oil on plywood,...

ORSHA, 1 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian company OAO Orsha Aircraft Repair Plant intends to make about 20 helicopters of the Mi-8 MSB model in 2014, the company’s Director Vladimir Troitsky told BelTA. The company presented the first batch-produced Mi-8 MSB helicopter in August. It is a modern product designed by the Ukrainian company Motor Sich, which is the key strategic partner of the Orsha-based company. “They have made a fifth-generation engine and have come up with the...

MOSCOW, 25 September (BelTA) – Vitebsk Oblast and Moscow District of Saint Petersburg have signed a protocol of intentions and come up with a joint action plan for 2013-2016. The documents were signed by Vitebsk Oblast Governor Alexander Kosinets and head of the Moscow District administration Vladimir Rublevsky in Saint Petersburg, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Saint Petersburg administration. The protocol and the joint action plan were signed within the framework of the...

VITEBSK, 18 September (BelTA) - Policemen from Hanoi are studying the experience of their Belarusian colleagues in Vitebsk, Chief of the Vitebsk Oblast Police Department Igor Yevseyev told media on 18 September, BelTA has learnt. According to him, a police delegation from the Vietnamese capital has arrived in Vitebsk Oblast on a two-day visit. They have already got familiar with the operation of the Minsk City Police Department and visited places of military glory and museums in Lepel...

VITEBSK, 4 September (BelTA) - Japanese volunteers will give master classes in clown therapy in the Children’s District Clinical Hospital in Vitebsk and the orphanage in the village of Bolshiye Lyottsy on 6 September, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Oblast organization of the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS). A group of Japanese volunteers will arrive in Vitebsk on 5 September. On the same day they will meet with the volunteers of the Vitebsk Oblast organization of the BRCS. A...

VITEBSK, 26 August (BelTA) – In H1 2013, the export of tourism services in Vitebsk Oblast was estimated at $8.4 million or 122.5% as against the target, BelTA learnt from head of the department of physical education, sport and tourism of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Mikhail Portnoi. He informed that over the six months the surplus in trade in tourism services stood at $7.7 million. The surplus is attributed to the improvement of the tourism management and regulation,...