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VITEBSK, 22 February (BelTA) – Restoring technological chains between enterprises of Vitebsk and Moscow Oblasts will become one of the major cooperation areas between the two regions, Konstantin Cherny, Deputy Chairman of the Economic Committee, head of the investment policy and foreign economic department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, told the media. Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets held a meeting with Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov...

MOSCOW, 20 February (BelTA) – Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets held a meeting with Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov on 20 February. The sides expressed willingness to increase bilateral trade up to $1 billion in two years, BelTA informs. The sides agreed to create a special working group to achieve these goals, Alexander Kosinets told reporters. Besides, the two oblasts intend to conclude a cooperation agreement which will contribute to the growth of...

VITEBSK, 13 February (BelTA) – An organizing committee to mark the 125th anniversary of Marc Chagall’s birth has been created in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from Vladimir Terentiev, head of the culture department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. The birthday celebration of the famous countryman has become a good tradition in Vitebsk. Though the official birthday of the artist is on 6 July, Chagall always celebrated it on 7 July. That is why the home-museum of Marc Chagall will host...

VITEBSK, 8 February (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Oblast Diagnostics Center received medical equipment for its speech and hearing correction department as a gift from the Embassy of Poland and the public charity organization Verbalik on 8 February, BelTA has learned. Head physician of the diagnostics center Vladimir Orekhva told reporters, they have received an impedance audiometer, a system for registering otoacoustic emissions Eclipse. Denmark-made, the equipment cost over ?40,000. It allows...

VITEBSK, 6 February (BelTA) – In 2011, 47 foreign nationals living in Vitebsk Oblast were stripped of residence permits for systematic violation of the Administrative Code, BelTA learnt from chief of the citizenship and migration bureau of the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Tatiana Romashova. In line with the law “Concerning the legal status of foreign nationals in the Republic of Belarus”, residence permits can be annulled for committing a...

VITEBSK, 31 January (BelTA) – The Consulate of the Republic of Latvia in Vitebsk is ready to issue permits for small-sale border traffic to residents of the border territories of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the head of the Latvian Consulate in Vitebsk Dagnija Lace-Ate. In accordance with the agreement between the Governments of Belarus and Latvia on small-scale border traffic of 23 August 2010, consulates will start to accept documents for permits on 1 February this year. The Consulate of...