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VITEBSK, 14 March (BelTA) – An international research-to-practice conference “History and Archeology of Polotsk and Polotsk Land” will take place in Polotsk from 1-3 November and will mark the 1150th anniversary of Polotsk, BelTA learnt from acting director of the Polotsk National History and Culture Museum Tamara Dzumantayeva. The sixth conference (the first one was held in 1987, once in five years) will be supported by UNESCO for the first time. The international organization...

VITEBSK, 13 March (BelTA) – The Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) is the first Belarusian university to conduct tele-consultations with the Department of Surgery at the Technical University of Munich, Edouard Matevossian, MD, Department of Surgery, Technical University of Munich, told reporters. The Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) and Department of Surgery at the Technical University of Munich became signed a cooperation agreement on 13 March. This agreement provides for the...

VITEBSK, 5 March (BelTA) – The first Belarusian, a resident of Vitebsk Oblast, crossed the Belarus-Latvia border by taking advantage of the Belarus-Latvia small-scale traffic agreement, BelTA learnt from assistant to the head of the Polotsk border unit Denis Glebko. The resident of the village Bigosovo (Verkhnedvinsk District) was the first to cross the border on 3 March to visit his relatives in Kraslava where he was born. More than 70 people crossed the state border between Belarus and...

VITEBSK, 2 March (BelTA) – The Vitebsk culture center and the Latvian culture center in Daugavpils started to implement the joint project “Daugavpils and Vitebsk: cultural cooperation and development” under the Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus cross-border cooperation program. The presentation of the project was held in Vitebsk on 2 March, BelTA informs. “This project is a logical continuation of long-standing cultural relations between Vitebsk and Daugavpils and is to contribute to the...

VITEBSK, 29 February (BelTA) – The youth theater Koleso of the Vitebsk culture center has won the 9th International Masks Festival in Latvia, BelTA learnt from the center. Taking part in the festival in Daugavpils were teams from Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. The Vitebsk theater received the first prize in the contest of team and individual masks for the Blue bird of Belarus performance in a la dell’arte style. Koleso was very popular among the participants of the festival and gave 6...

VITEBSK, 29 February (BelTA) – Rector of the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine (VSAVM) Anton Yatusevich has become Belarus’ first academician in veterinary of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (RAAS), BelTA learnt from the academy. Anton Yatusevich was named academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences at the annual general meeting of the academy. During the event he made a report on sanitation of livestock sector from infectious and parasitic animal...