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VERKHNEDVINSK, 6 June (BelTA) - Verkhnedvinsk Creamery has launched trial supplies of dry dematerialized whey to China, BelTA learnt from the director of the company Piotr Lavrinov. Thus, the company continues to work on diversification of markets. This year, the company won the tender and started shipping their products to the retail networks in Western Kazakhstan, in addition to the wholesalers. Negotiations are in progress with wholesale buyers from Azerbaijan, who show a strong interest...

VERKHNEDVINSK, 6 June (BelTA) – The highlight of the celebrations of the 125th birthday of Marc Chagall in Vitebsk will be the 22nd international Chagall readings, BelTA learnt from Director of the Marc Chagall Museum Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya. The scientific conference will take place in the museum on 9-10 June. Partaking in it will be art critics, historians and archivists from Russia, Belarus, Germany and Latvia. They will discuss issues related to the biography and creative work of Marc...

VITEBSK, 31 May (BelTA) – Knights from five countries will come to Polotsk for the Rubon medieval festival, BelTA learnt from the Polotsk City Hall. The medieval festival makes part of the program dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of Polotsk. This year the list of participants includes historical reenactment clubs from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The festival will feature the reenactment of the assault on a medieval castle located on the...

VITEBSK, 30 May (BelTA) – Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov and Magna Carta College, Oxford, signed an agreement on bilateral cooperation, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk university. The Vitebsk university and the Oxford College will cooperate under two concurrent education programs: Bachelor’s and Master’s. The course comprises distance education and face-to-face lectures by English professors at the Vitebsk University. Thus, Vitebsk students will get an opportunity to...

VITEBSK, 29 May (BelTA) – In January-April this year, taxes paid by the biggest companies of Vitebsk Oblast to the budget rose by almost 62% compared with the same period last year, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Vitebsk Oblast branch of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of Belarus. Over this period, the region’s biggest taxpayers transferred Br1,349 billion (49.9% of all taxes) to the budget. The tax payments by this category of taxpayers rose by Br516.4 billion compared...

VITEBSK, 28 May (BelTA) – Mingachevir from Azerbaijan and Armenian Alaverdi became twin-towns of Polotsk. Cooperation agreements were signed during the days of the 1150th celebrations of Polotsk. Twin-town agreements between Polotsk and Alaverdi were signed on 26 May by Alexander Poznyak, Chairman of the Polotsk City Council and Mayor of Alaverdi Artavazd Varosyan. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Belarus Armen Khachatryan also took part in the ceremony,...