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MINSK, 3 September (BelTA) – The IT Academy will open in Novopolotsk on 4 September, BelTA learnt from the High-Tech Park Administration. The IT Academy will provide extended education for adults, programming fundamentals for students of the 3rd-11th forms, cutting-edge technologies in the educational and management activity. The academy will run courses in IT and provide distance education. Seven High-Tech Park resident companies: Systemic Technologies, EPAM Systems, ScienceSoft, SaM...

VILNIUS, 27 August (BelTA) – A tanker with a pilot consignment of Venezuelan oil for Belarus will arrive in Lithuania in the night of August 29. If the sea is calm, then the tanker will dock at the Lithuanian oil terminal on Sunday at 8h00, informed Rokas Masiulis, director general of Klaipedos Nafta. “We are fully ready to receive the tanker with Venezuelan oil for Belarus,” said Rokas Masiulis. As it was informed earlier, Klaipedos Nafta signed a contract to supply a pilot...

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...

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...

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,...

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),...