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12 July 2012
VITEBSK, 12 July (BelTA) – The international art festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk makes brotherly relations between Belarus and Russia stronger, said People’s Artist of Russia Lev Leshchenko as a star in his name was unveiled in the alley of laureates of the Belarus President award “Through art towards peace and mutual understanding” on 12 July.
Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is the only ex-USSR festival, to which artistes flock eagerly to share their art with spectators and talk to...
11 July 2012
VITEBSK, 11 July (BelTA) - The 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk has brought together over 1,000 craftsmen and artists, BelTA learnt.
Artists started working on 11 July. Their pictures will be showcased in Tolstogo and Suvorova Streets near the Vitebsk Regional Local Lore Museum. Representatives of the Vitebsk center of modern art said that this year the festival is attended by over 150 artists from all over Belarus.
An unprecedented number of folk artists and...
9 July 2012
VITEBSK, 9 July (BelTA) – Chinese business shows an interest in starting up a new manufacturing project based on Vitebsk Fur Factory, BelTA learned from Yelena Zhuravleva, Head of the Economy Office of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, as she summed up results of the visit of the official and business delegations of the city of Harbin to Vitebsk. The visit ended on 8 July.
The project provides for modernizing and relocating the manufacturing facilities of the existing company to a new...
9 July 2012
VITEBSK, 9 July (BelTA) – The art gallery of Yehuda Pen, Marc Chagall’s teacher and mentor, will be recreated in Vitebsk, the deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, Vladimir Terentiev, said at a ceremony to open an one-painting exhibition “Portrait of Marc Chagall by Yehuda Pen” loaned by the National Art Museum of Belarus. The exhibition is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Marc Chagall.
The art gallery will be housed in the building of the...
8 July 2012
VITEBSK, 9 July (BelTA) - The Israeli exhibition dedicated to Marc Chagall opened at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater in Vitebsk as part of the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the artist. The exhibtion was presented by the Israeli cultural center at the Embassy of the State of Israel in the Republic of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the culture department of the Vitebsk City Hall.
This is a travelling exhibition prepared by the Association of Professional...
5 July 2012
VITEBSK, 5 July (BelTA) – The Belarusian dairy manufacturer OAO Glubokoye Tinned Milk Factory plans to penetrate the markets of Vietnam and China, the company’s Deputy Director General for Commerce Sergei Stolyaronok told BelTA.
To promote its products in Vietnam, the company takes part in establishing a Belarusian-Vietnamese trading house in the city of Hanoi. Potential partners have been sent samples of whole-milk and skimmed milk powder, whey and relevant documents. The prices are...