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VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – Boban Mojsovski of Macedonia is leading after the second day of the 21st international song contest Vitebsk 2012, BelTA has learned. On the second day of the contest the entries sang songs of Slavonic authors in Slavonic languages. The singers were accompanied by Mikhail Finberg’s National Concert Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. After two contest days Boban Mojsovski scored 199 points out of 220. The Macedonian singer may collect this year’s Grand Prix....

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota believes that there is no need to set up a coordination council to manage integration in the post-Soviet space. He made this statement at a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July, BelTA has learnt. Grigory Rapota mentioned integration projects, like the CIS, EurAsEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, GUAM, and CSTO. “There are many of them. Countries that became independent and started looking for their place...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July that he is in favor of a radical solution of the Union State property issue, BelTA has learnt. “The problem is long-running and complicated. There are 10 draft decisions that need to be signed and adopted. Two of them have already been passed, the third will be discussed at the session of the Union State Council of Ministers,” he said. “We need to adopt a radical...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The session of the Union State Council of Ministers that will be held in Minsk on 18 July will discuss concepts of four new programs, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July, BelTA has learnt. Grigory Rapota informed that one of them deals with agriculture. He said that the agenda of the session is structured into three parts. The first block is organizational. The second one deals with trade and economic...

VITEBSK, 13 July (BelTA) – The Day of Culture of Russia will be held at the International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 13 July, BelTA learnt. Participating in the event will be the Moiseyev Folk Dance Ensemble. The concert program includes works of different periods of his creative work. One of them is a Belarusian dance called Bulba, one of Igor Moiseyev’s first works. The repertoire of the Moiseyev’s company corresponds to the main idea of the festival “Through Art...

VITEBSK, 13 July (BelTA) – President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko presented a special award “Through art to peace and understanding” to People’s Artist of Russia Lev Leshchenko at the opening ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 12 July, BelTA has learnt. The head of state noted that this award became a good tradition of the festival. “It grew so prestigious that turned into a kind of Oscar for musicians with very tough...