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VITEBSK, 29 July (BelTA) – Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordiuzha suggests assessing the training level of the military units that make up the CSTO’s rapid response forces. Nikolai Bordiuzha made the statement after getting familiar with the combat training system of the 103rd special operations brigade of the Belarusian army on 29 July, BelTA has learned. The idea was discussed with the chief of the special operations forces of the...

VITEBSK DISTRICT, 29 July (BelTA) – Members of the Permanent Council under the Collective Security Treaty Organization, top executives of the Secretariat and the CSTO United Staff highly praised the combat training system and achievements of the servicemen of the 103rd guards mobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus. Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordiuzha made the statement on 29 July, BelTA has learned. Nikolai Bordiuzha also praised...

VITEBSK, 29 July (BelTA) - More than 40 athletes from Vitebsk Oblast are preparing for the Summer Olympics 2012 in London, the deputy head of the Physical Education, Sport and Tourism Department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Piotr Nemenenok told reporters. Vitebsk may be represented at the Olympics in 15 sports. Six athletes have already qualified: Marina Domantsevich (marathon), Elena Matoshko (hammer throw), Maria Arzamasova (800 m), Alina Talai (100m hurdles), Natalia...

VITEBSK, 29 July (BelTA) – The international camp Be-La-Rus opened near the Mound of Friendship in Verkhnedvinsk District, Vitebsk Oblast, on 28 July. It gathered 600 people, representatives of the oblast committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) told BelTA. The 20th gathering of young Belarusians, Latvians and Russians will be dedicated to the Year of Russian Cosmonautics, the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s launch to outer space, and the 20th anniversary of the...

VITEBSK, 28 July (BelTA) – Vitebsk will play host to the art festival for visually impaired people Light Your Star on 29 July, BelTA learned from the Belarusian association of visually impaired people BelTIZ. Partaking in the festival will be 14 soloists and Stolitsa creative company of BelTIZ. All of them were winners of the festival marathon. Apart from BelTIZ amateur artists, partaking in the festival will be Irina Dorofeyeva, Iskui Abalyan, Piotr Yelfimov, Alexander Solodukha and many...

VITEBSK, 26 July (BelTA) - Smugglers have once again tried to use coal gondolas to move Belarusian cigarettes abroad. The attempt to smuggle 19,500 packs of cigarettes from the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Latvia was foiled by the Polotsk border patrol, BelTA learnt from Denis Glebko, the chief of the press service of the Polotsk border patrol. During the search of a freight train at the Bigosovo railway station (Verkhnedvinsk District) the border patrol agents found 39 boxes of...