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VITEBSK, 13 July (BelTA) – Olympic Games are politicized and flawed, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at the opening ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 12 July, BelTA has learnt. The head of state compared Slavonic Bazaar to Olympic Games. “Due to the great number of participants and cultural events, Slavonic Bazaar can be called summer cultural Olympics. It supports the major Olympic principle: art, just like...

VITEBSK, 13 July (BelTA) – Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk helped Eurasian nations to preserve the common historical and cultural space, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at the opening ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 12 July, BelTA has learnt. “Without a doubt, the Vitebsk forum has become one of the kernels of the Eurasian integration. It helped our peoples to preserve the common historical and cultural space,”...

VITEBSK, 13 July (BelTA) – Belarus will never leave Slavonic Bazaar without state support in order to preserve the scale and range of this cultural event, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at the opening ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on 12 July, BelTA has learnt. “Each country has its chief cultural symbol. Slavonic Bazaar is that symbol for Belarus. We have never disregarded the festival and will never disregard...

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...

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...

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...