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MINSK, 19 May (BelTA) – A large Austrian company is willing to take part in a joint Belarusian-Latvian project to create an international multimodal logistics center Orsha at the Orsha aircraft overhaul plant, director of the plant Vladimir Troitsky said as he met with a delegation of the Ministry of Transport of Latvia in Minsk on 19 May. “We have a real investor from Austria. We have held negotiations and did calculations,” Vladimir Troitsky said. The Belarusian side is expecting...

MINSK, 18 May (BelTA) – A sponsor to reconstruct Marc Chagall’s block in Vitebsk has been found, Head of the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities, Distinguished Architect of Belarus Leonid Levin told reporters on 18 May. Leonid Levin noted that the project will memorialize other famous artists who lived and worked in Vitebsk: Malevich, Pen, Kandinsky. The block will be placed in the historical part of Vitebsk, Pokrovskaya street and neighbourhood areas. That...

VITEBSK, 18 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian TV maker Vityas has been privatized to create an open joint-stock company in the Vitebsk oblast, Vityas’ Deputy Director General for Property Management, Social and Ideological Affairs Alexander Petrushko told BelTA. The authorized fund exceeds Br200 billion, with over 5 million ordinary shares with the face value of Br44,000 each issued. The government owns 100% of the shares. The supervisory board and other management bodies have been set up,...

VITEBSK, 17 May (BelTA) – Polotsk, which was declared the cultural capital of Belarus in 2010, opens a series of two-week celebrations dedicated to the 1148th anniversary of the town, BelTA learnt from the ideological department of the Polotsk Town Executive Committee. The celebrations will start on International Museum Day. This day will be dedicated to the National History and Culture Museum Reserve of Polotsk. All the 11 museums affiliated with the museum reserve will prepare special...

VITEBSK, 14 May (BelTA) – Shadows of the past will fill the Jesuit collegium in Orsha on the Museum Night on 22 May, BelTA learned from representatives of the Orsha region history and culture museum complex. On this day all fans of history, magic, fantasy world and adventurs will be able to dive into mystical illusions. As they approach the collegium, visitors will be welcomed by shadows of the past – the White Lady, the Black Monk, soldiers of the Napoleon army, fantastic cat women,...

VITEBSK, 14 May (BelTA) – Belarus and Latvia can open passenger railway service in 2011, Transport and Communication Minister of Belarus Ivan Shcherbo told media on 14 May. In Vitebsk the minister attended a nationwide seminar on energy saving in the organizations of the Transport and Communication Ministry. “I cannot say that the train service will be opened next year precisely. We, jointly with our Latvian colleagues, have been working hard in this direction. The relevant instructions...