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VITEBSK, 27 June (BelTA) – The development of joint information technologies will be discussed at a session of the joint board of the interior ministries of the Union State. The session will be held in Vitebsk on 28 June, BelTA learnt from the information and public relations department of the Belarusian Interior Ministry. The participants of the session will discuss development of joint information and telecommunication technologies, communication management and information protection....

VITEBSK, 25 June (BelTA) – U.S. business took interest in the tourist project in Pokrovskaya Street in Vitebsk where Marc Chagall was born, BelTA learnt from U.S. businessman Jerry Ruchievsky. According to the businessman, a director of one of pension funds will visit Vitebsk in early July. He is interested in the project of Vitebsk Winemaking Factory. The project is to be implemented in Pokrovskaya Street in Vitebsk where Marc Chagall was born. Marc Chagall’s house still survives in the...

VITEBSK, 25 June (BelTA) – Vitebsk enterprises have been invited to attend the forum of twin towns in Frankfurt an der Oder (Germany), BelTA learnt from Chairperson of the Economy Department of the Vitebsk City Hall Elena Zhuravleva. The invitation was conveyed during a meeting of Chairman of the Vitebsk City Hall Viktor Nikolaikin with foreign delegates who came to Vitebsk for the International Investment Forum that opened on 25 June. The German partners took interest in products and...

VITEBSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Russian and Kazakhstani painters have come to Vitebsk to take part in a plein air marking the 125th birthday of Marc Chagall and the 120th anniversary of the Zdravnevo estate purchase by Ilya Repin, BelTA learnt from organizer of the tour Larisa Petrovskaya. Apart from members of the national unions of artists, Vitebsk has also welcomed art students. The guests will draw Vitebsk, its suburbs, portraits of its residents. The plein air will be followed by an...

VITEBSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Art groups from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia and Moldova will take part in the 19th International Song and Music Festival “Dnieper Voices in Dubrovno”, BelTA learnt from the Dubrovno District Executive Committee. The festival will begin on 22 June. The participants to the festival will gather at the Rylenki Memorial to commemorate victims of the Great Patriotic War. A concert featuring war-time songs will be held in...

VITEBSK, 20 June (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Regional Local Lore Museum is preparing innovative souvenirs for visitors, Director of the Museum Gleb Savitsky told a press conference timed to the opening of the international holography exhibition “Holography 2012. Vitebsk”. In cooperation with one of the organizers of the exhibition, the museum is preparing artistic holograms of its exhibits. So far the work on three holograms is underway. One of the holograms will feature a most valuable...