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MINSK, 15 November (BelTA) – Correctional facility No. 8 in Orsha hosted the first performance of the play White Angel with Black Wings under the grant of the UN Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria implemented by the UN Development Program and the Healthcare Ministry of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Global Fund grant. The prevention of HIV among prisoners is one of the major goals of the grant. The performance delivered the information about the...

VITEBSK, 11 November (BelTA) – Specialists from ten countries will take part in the 14th Congress of Belarusian Association of Surgeons that will open at the Vitebsk State Medical University on 11 November, BelTA learnt from Pro-Rector for Science and Research of the university Sergei Sushkov. The two-day forum will bring together over 350 delegates. They will discuss the state and prospects of surgical service in Belarus. Besides Belarusian specialists, the forum will also be attended by...

VITEBSK, 2 November (BelTA) – Vitebsk will host the 23rd International Modern Dance Festival on November 24-29, Marina Romanovskaya, deputy director general of the Vitebsk Culture Center, told a press conference. More than 50 dance groups and troupes have applied for participation. Following the video-qualifying tour, the invitations to participate in the festival have been sent to 26 art groups from Belarus, Germany, Israel, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovenia,...

VITEBSK, 2 November (BelTA) – The international scientific and practical conference on parasitic diseases will be held at the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine on 4-5 November. Taking part in the conference will be about 50 specialists from six countries, BelTA learnt from pro-rector for academic research of the academy Alexander Subbotin. The two-day conference is organized by the International Association of Parasitocenologists. The academy is going to host the forum for the...

MINSK, 27 October (BelTA) - Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient Viking settlement in Vitebsk Oblast, which proves that the Vikings lived on the territory of Belarus, BelTA learnt from Doctor of Historical Sciences Olga Levko, the chief of the center for the history of pre-industrial society of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. She did not specify where exactly the remains of the settlement were found saying that “black diggers” may...

VITEBSK, 27 October (BelTA) – A scientific conference, Vitebsk Antiquities, marking the 90th anniversary of well-known historian and archeologist Leonid Alexeyev will take place in the Vitebsk Regional History Museum on 28-29 October, BelTA learnt from the oblast cultural department. Leonid Alexeyev, a native of Roston-on-Don, has dedicated the major part of his works to studying the history of the Polotsk Principality. In the 1950-70s the scientist was engaged in the excavation works in...