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VITEBSK, 28 June (BelTA) – More than 60 roadside facilities will be put into operation in the Vitebsk Oblast this year, BelTA learnt from the transport and communications department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. January-May saw the commissioning of 7 facilities, including 3 filling stations and four cafes. Other facilities are scheduled to come on stream in third or fourth quarters. The investors are individual entrepreneurs, private companies and regional consumers’...

MINSK, 28 June (BelTA) – In January-May the Vitebsk fruit and vegetable cannery exported products worth $229,000, or 3.5 times up from the same period a year earlier, BelTA learnt from the director of the company Rostislav Goshko. According to the preliminary estimates, the H1 export will exceed $320,000. The company exports canned baby food and semi-finished carrot puree in aseptic packaging. The main sale market is the Russian Federation (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kostroma and Tver). An...

VITEBSK, 25 June (BelTA) – Around 5, 000 artistes from 34 countries will take part in the 19th Slavonic Bazaar International Festival which will be held in Belarusian Vitebsk. Representatives of Montenegro, Panama and Cuba will participate in the festival for the first time, Festival Director Rodion Bass told a press conference on 24 June, BelTA has learnt. According to Rodion Bass, the Vitebsk Festival 2010 will include 70 creative projects, involve 16 stages of the city. Some 19...

VITEBSK, 25 June (BelTA) – Over 40 illegal migrants have been uncovered during the Nelegal operation at the Belarusian-Russian border held by the joint law-enforcement bodies of the Pskov and Vitebsk Oblasts in May 2010, head of the department for the Pskov Oblast of the Federal Migration Service of Russia Alexander Paramonov told media on 24 June. He took part in a working meeting of the heads of the migration services of the Pskov and Vitebsk Oblasts in Vitebsk on 24 June, BelTA has...

VITEBSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Belarusian and Latvian participants of the transboundary project Bella Dvina – Crossing the Borders, Opening the Culture and Enjoying the Scenery of the Western Dvina/Daugava region are set to sign a declaration on tourism cooperation at an international conference in Polotsk on 8 July, BelTA learnt from the department for physical education, sports and tourism of the Polotsk town hall. The international conference, Tourist region Bella Dvina as an example of...

VITEBSK, 18 June (BelTA) – The Vitebsk oblast executive committee announced an international investment forum, BelTA learnt from the economy committee of the oblast executive committee. The investment forum will take place on 15-16 July, on the last days of the Slavonic Bazaar Festival. The forum will familiarize the national and foreign economic agents with the investment potential of the oblast, help find new partners and attract investment in the priority economic areas of the Vitebsk...