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VITEBSK, 28 March (BelTA) – Over Br120 billion has been allocated for the development of the infrastructure of Vitebsk for the 20th Slavonic Bazaar Art Festival in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from Vladimir Terentyev, head of the culture department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Vitebsk City Hall approved the action plan to prepare the city of Vitebsk for the main cultural event of Belarus. There are plans to complete the renovation of the Summer Amphitheater, the Vitebsk Oblast...

VITEBSK, 28 March (BelTA) – Over Br120 billion has been allocated for the development of the infrastructure of Vitebsk for the 20th Slavonic Bazaar Art Festival in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from Vladimir Terentyev, head of the culture department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Vitebsk City Hall approved the action plan to prepare the city of Vitebsk for the main cultural event of Belarus. There plans to complete the renovation of the Summer Amphitheater, the Vitebsk Oblast...

VITEBSK, 21 March (BelTA) – A Jordanian pharmaceutical manufacturing company will be one of the founders of the future open joint company that will be based on the Belarusian enterprise BelVitUnipharm. The Jordanian company intends to invest at least $14 million in the future company, BelTA learned from Mikhail Pavlyuchkov, Director of the Vitebskoblimushchestvo fund, after negotiations with the foreign investor. Scheduled for 21 March, the tender to choose a co-founder for the future open...

VITEBSK, 21 March (BelTA) – A test batch of cargoes has been delivered from China to the future multimodal transportation and logistics center in Orsha and is going through customs procedures, Director of Orsha Aircraft Repairs Plant Vladimir Troitsky told BelTA. By doing so the Hong Kong-based company CBT Development (logistics) Limited has completed technical preparations for the investment project to build the transportation and logistics center in Orsha. A presentation of the project...

MINSK, 17 March (BelTA) – Belwest plans to open about 70 chain stores in Russia in 2011, BelTA learnt from the Olga Klimenkova, economist of the company’s marketing department. The chain stores will be set up in 24 Russian cities including Volgograd, Krasnodar, and Orenburg. The company will also expand its distributing network in the Urals and Volga regions. In 2010 the Belarusian company opened more than 30 chain stores in 28 cities of Russia. Belwest runs 72 chain stores in more...

VITEBSK, 18 March (BelTA) – Works of more than fifty artists are on display at the Vitebsk Art Museum exhibition, Artists of Vitebsk of the late 20th-early 21st Centuries. The expo opened on 18 March, BelTA learnt from the administration of the museum. In 2011 the Yudel Pen Studio that in its time initiated the opening of Vitebsk Art School marks its 115th anniversary. Vitebsk established and unknown artists alike have featured more than 50 works to pay tribute to the memory of great...