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VITEBSK, 31 May (BelTA) – Lepel Dairy Factory together with a Russian investor will set up a joint enterprise to produce Cheddar cheese, BelTA learned from director of the company Alexander Mikhailovsky. The investment project with the total cost of about ?1 million to launch the production of this semi-hard cheese with the capacity of 10 tonnes of cheese per day will be implemented in Tolochin. According to the preliminary data, each partner will hold 50% of the authorized fund. Necessary...

VITEBSK, 31 May (BelTA) – The 14th international dulcimer and accordion music festival will take place in the Belarusian town of Postavy, Vitebsk Oblast on 3-5 June, BelTA learned from Galina Chaplinskaya, Head of the Ideology Department of the Postavy District Executive Committee. The event will gather music bands and representatives of business circles from Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, China, Kazakhstan, Israel and Poland. The organizers expect around 800 guests. The festival will begin...

VITEBSK, 30 May (BelTA) – Vitebsk-based Evistor and Riga plant of electric appliances AS RAR have agreed to produce import-substituting component parts for agricultural equipment, BelTA learned from Evistor’s chief engineer Tofik Aivazov. Belarusian and Latvian companies are eager to launch the production of windshield wipers and control boards for Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark). To date the plant purchases this equipment from Russia, Poland and Ukraine. AS RAR transfers the...

VITEBSK, 30 May (BelTA) – Vitebsk-based Evistor and Riga plant of electric appliances AS RAR have agreed to produce import-substituting component parts for agricultural equipment, BelTA learned from Evistor’s chief engineer Tofik Aivazov. Belarusian and Latvian companies are eager to launch the production of windshield wipers and control boards for Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ trademark). To date the plant purchases this equipment from Russia, Poland and Ukraine. AS RAR transfers the...

VITEBSK, 30 May (BelTA) – The International Beatles-Festival “Ob-la-ki, Ob-la-ka” will be held in Vitebsk on 17-19 June, BelTA learnt from the project manager, the chairman of the Vitebsk Beatles-Club Garik Ogandzhanian. The festival dedicated to the cult Fab Four will be held in the regional center for the first time. Despite this, all three days of the festival will be very busy. Beatles fans will be treated to dozens of special events to be arranged in the streets of the city and in...

VITEBSK, 27 May (BelTA) - Local youth initiative “We are Together” will bring together about a hundred of volunteers and people in wheelchairs. The event will be held in Vitebsk on 27 May, the project manager, the chairman of the Vitebsk Oktyabrsky district Organization of the Belarusian Red Cross Society Mikhail Gusachenko. The charity event "Mini-Marathon of People in Wheelchairs” will be held in Vitebsk for the fourth time. About 30 wheelchair users together with students-...