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26 August 2010
VITEBSK, 27 August (BelTA) – Orsha Machine Tool Plant Krasny Borets has been transformed into an open joint stock company, BelTA learnt from Svetlana Lukashevich, deputy director of the Vitebsk territorial fund Vitebskoblimushchestvo.
In accordance with the law on denationalization and privatization of state property in the Republic of Belarus, the Board of Vitebskoblimushchestvo took a decision to transform the republican unitary enterprise Orsha Machine Tool Plant of the Order of the Red...
19 August 2010
VITEBSK, 19 August (BelTA) – The Participants of the fifth Paris-Moscow 2010 Cycling Marathon said goodbye to Belarus and left for Russia, BelTA learned from Andrei Tsvetkov, head of the sport and tourism department of the Liozno Regional Executive Committee.
Liozno has become the last Belarusian settlement that welcomed the participants of the marathon.
The fifth Paris-Moscow 2010 Cycling Marathon is held by organization “Bicycle for Peace and New Energies” within the framework of...
17 August 2010
MINSK, 17 August (BelTA) – The Belwest company is set to open over 30 stores in Russia by the autumn/winter season, BelTA learnt from the Bellegprom concern.
Some 20 stores will open in August; another ten stores will open in September. Today the company operates about 40 stores in the Russian Federation. This autumn the number of stores will make about 70.
The Vitebsk-made shoes will be sold in Tolyatti, Kursk, Saratov, Ufa, Balakovo, Ulyanovsk, Syzran, Engels, Izhevsk, Berezniki,...
17 August 2010
VITEBSK, 17 August (BelTA) – In January-July this year the revenues of the Vitebsk Oblast consolidated budget amounted to more than Br2. trillion, or 104.8% to the plan, BelTA learnt from the press center of Vitebsk oblast inspectorate of the Tax and Duties Ministry.
The national budget revenues amounted to more than Br1.2 trillion, or 102.6% to the plan. Revenues to the local budget made up Br1.1 trillion (107.3%). The main sources of incomes are excises (35.7% of the total revenues),...
16 August 2010
VITEBSK, 16 August (BelTA) – Unique findings have been discovered by archeologists in Polotsk District, BelTA learnt from Marat Klimov, scientific worker of the NASB Institute of History.
Archeological excavations are held on the left bank of the Western Dvina near the village of Luchno. A big estate of a magnate was located there in the 11th-16th centuries. The archeologists were unable to find out the name of the owner as the estate was completely destroyed during the wars between the...
16 August 2010
VITEBSK, 16 August (BelTA) – In 2011-2015 Vitebsk Oblast will construct seven ice palaces, Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets told a closing ceremony of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee cup ice hockey tournament, BelTA has learnt.
According to the Governor, the region attaches great attention to development of ice hockey. In 2011, an ice palace seating 3,500 people will open in Orsha. In 2011-2015 the ice palaces will open in Lepel, Novolukoml,...