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13 August 2010
VITEBSK, 12 August (BelTA) – An exhibition of participants of ART-EGO, the first international plein air, opened in Polotsk, Belarus’ cultural capital 2010, BelTA learnt from Larisa Lysenko, chief of the arts gallery of the National Polotsk History and Culture Museum-Reserve.
The exhibition features 60 works. These are paintings, collages, art objects, sculptures that the artists from Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania created during the two-week plein air dedicated to Polotsk as a cultural...
12 August 2010
VITEBSK, 12 August (BelTA) – In Vitebsk Oblast composite fire-fighting teams have been put on alert to fight forest and peatland fires, BelTA learned from Marina Fando, press secretary of the Vitebsk Oblast Department of the Emergencies Ministry.
There are composite fire-fighting teams in every district of the oblast. There are over 150 composite fire-fighting teams numbering a total of about 2,500 people. They have over 500 vehicles to deliver water and extinguish fires. The teams are...
6 August 2010
VITEBSK, 6 August (BelTA) – The Orsha and Liozno forest services is monitoring the situation with the wildfires in the Smolensk Oblast, BelTA learnt from Aleksei Shaposhnikov, acting head of the department for forest protection, hunting and tourism of the Vitebsk Forestry.
The Orsha forest service is tracking the situation with wildfires 10-13 kilometers off the border on the territory of the Krasnyansnky forestry, the Smolensk Oblast. The area of the fire makes up almost 50 hectares....
5 August 2010
VITEBSK, 5 August (BelTA) – In H1 2010 the Polotsk Dairy almost doubled its export to $11.5 million, the company told BelTA.
In January-June the company exported to Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Armenia, Iran, Georgia. Besides, the first consignment of the Polotsk Dairy’s animal oil at the amount of 18.5 tonnes went to Syria via the Meat and Dairy Company. The plant plans to find direct partners in that country. Syrian businessmen paid a visit to the Polotsk Dairy in July 2010. “The...
3 August 2010
VITEBSK, 3 August (BelTA) – Bikers from six countries will take part in a medieval show in Orsha on 8 August, BelTA learnt from Roman Catholic priest Valery Orsik of the Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Orsha.
Partaking in the event will be more than 50 bikers from Poland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Lithuania, Belarus as well as the Orsha Club of Historic Reconstruction and the youth of the town. The guests of the festival will watch a bike show, sing together with the participants...
30 July 2010
MINSK, 30 July (BelTA) – The first train with Venezuelan oil is expected to arrive at the Belarusian oil refinery Naftan in the evening of 31 July, Naftan Deputy Director General Nikolai Kolbasenko told BelTA.
Oil will be delivered in several phases within several days. Preparations are in progress to discharge oil into special containers.
BelTA reported earlier that another batch of Venezuelan oil as large as 80,000 tonnes will be delivered to Belarus via Estonia. Delivered by the fifth...