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VITEBSK, 31 December (BelTA) – A Belarusian-Czech joint venture to dry whey has been set up in Vitebsk Oblast, BelTA learnt from Deputy Director General of the Vitebsk-based concern Meat and Dairy Products Sergei Shinelev. The joint venture MolokoVitebsk-Mega was established by the Moloko company (Vitebsk) and Czechia’s Mega. Each of them accounts for 50% of the authorized fund of the joint venture. The administration of the new enterprise has already been formed. The company is set...

VITEBSK, 30 December (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Machine Tool Plant VISTAN was corporatized, BelTA learnt from Vitebskoblimushchestvo territorial fund. VISTAN statutory fund is equal to more than Br33.1 billion. A total of 1,507,880 ordinary shares of Br22,000 par value each will be issued to that amount. All shares will remain in state ownership. Before the first meeting of shareholders, the Industry Ministry will make decisions within the competence of the General Meeting and the Supervisory...

VITEBSK, 23 December (BelTA) – Residents of Vitebsk Oblast are now entitled to have up to 3 hectares of land for household farming. This measure is envisaged in the regional program to develop household farming for 2011-2015 which was approved today by the Vitebsk oblast council of deputies, BelTA has learnt. Local executive committees, within the scope of their competence and in accordance with the legislation, may allow citizens, upon their applications, to rent additional land plots of...

VITEBSK, 20 December (BelTA) – Ballot count in Orsha is open and in full compliance with law, BelTA learnt from CIS observer member of the Smolensk Oblast Duma Vladimir Ryzhichenkov. “Counting procedures are clearly described in the Election Code. Election commissions observe them, there were no critical remarks and complaints,” said the observer. Another 10 observers also observed the process of opening the ballot boxes and counting of votes at polling station No.4 in Orsha....

VITEBSK, 19 December (BelTA) – A total of 911 polling stations have opened in Vitebsk Oblast on 19 December, BelTA learnt from Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Election Commission Vyacheslav Kryukovsky. Two polling stations were set up in military units, 51 in health farms, hospitals, and holiday hotels. The commissions include 11,458 members. Over 40% of them were nominated by public organizations and political parties, over one third were nominated by submitting an application, the rest...

VITEBSK, 15 December (BelTA) – The first days of the early voting in Vitebsk Oblast did not witness any violations of Belarusian election legislation, BelTA learned from the CIS long-term observer Anatoly Nebogatov, Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation, General Political and Social Problems of the CIS Executive Committee. Anatoly Nebogatov got acquainted with the work of four precinct commissions and the voting procedure, including sealing ballot boxes for early...