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19 July 2012
VITEBSK, 19 July (BelTA) – The International Junior Song Contest Vitebsk has turned into a big rival of the International Contest of Pop Singers Vitebsk, Director of the cultural center Vitebsk and the International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk Rodion Bass told BelTA.
“It has become as spectacular and popular as the adult contest,” Rodion Bass said. He added that a gala concert of the junior song contest might be held at the major stage of the Slavonic Bazaar festival –...
19 July 2012
VITEBSK, 19 July (BelTA) – Mariam Bichoshvili from Georgia won the Grand Prix of the International Junior Song Contest Vitebsk 2012 held as part of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt.
Mariam Bichoshvili was awarded $5,000, a special prize and a diploma.
Alisher Zhaksybai from Kazakhstan was announced the first runner-up. He received $3,000, as well as a special prize and a diploma.
The second position and $2,000 was shared between three...
18 July 2012
VITEBSK, 18 July (BelTA) – The closing ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will be held on 18 July, BelTA has learnt.
The star-studded closing ceremony will feature Alsou, Nadezhda Babkina and the Russian Song folk band, Alexander Marshal, Nyusha, Soso Pavliashvili, Viktoria Aleshko, Inna Afanasieva, Irina Dorofeyeva, Alexander Tikhanovich and Yadviga Poplavskaya, Chisty Golos band, Litesound, Nikolai Gnatyuk, Potap and Nastya.
The closing ceremony...
17 July 2012
MINSK, 17 July (BelTA) – The international youth camp Be-La-Rus will be held in Vitebsk Oblast on 26-29 July, the press service of the BRSM Youth Union told BelTA.
This year the international youth camp will bring together 650 young people. Its major theme will be cinema. “Guests and participants of the camp will be able to learn more about cinema, try their hand at movie-making, shoot a movie about the camp, attend master classes in movie-making,” the BRSM Youth Union informed....
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is an important cultural event both for Belarus and Russia, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told BelTA.
“The Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is important not only for people living in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, but also for those living in the neighboring regions of Russia. They are looking forward to the event, and take vacations in order to come to Vitebsk,” Grigory Rapota said. He noted...
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus and Lori Province of Armenia signed a cooperation agreement on 16 July. Participating in the signing ceremony were Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets and Governor of Lori Province Arthur Nalbandyan, BelTA learnt.
The agreement stipulates major areas of in humanitarian and economic cooperation of the two regions. “Vitebsk Oblast is interested in bolstering industrial and agricultural ties,” Alexander...
