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27 April 2010
VITEBSK, 26 April (BelTA) - Vitebsk Alcoholic Beverages Factory Pridvinie exported 0,700 decaliters of vodkas and nastoykas to the tune of ?18,800 to Kazakhstan, BelTA learnt from the company.
“The market is very promising. Therefore we are negotiating further deliveries,” the company’s specialists said,
In April this year the company manufactured the first consignment of mineral water from its own well which is more than 396 meters deep. There are plans to make water of two brands...
22 April 2010
VITEBSK, 22 April (BelTA) – A big concert to mark the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War will open a new season at the Summer Amphitheater in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk cultural center.
The event worked out by the STV Channel will gather veterans and war participants as well as the residents and quests of the oblast center on 2 May. On the same day in the evening the town’s main cultural venue will host another interesting jubilee concert of the Syabry...
22 April 2010
VITEBSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Orsha will be the first Belarusian town to welcome participants of the Russian patriotic action Road of Glory on 22 April. The action is timed to the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, BelTA learned from representatives of the Ideology Department of Orsha City Hall.
On the eve of the celebration of the great date a special train will travel the road of glory. On board it will have veterans of the Great Patriotic War, those who defended...
30 March 2010
Public debates on whether to rename one of the streets in Polotsk in tribute to the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald are taking place in the town, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Ilyushenok, deputy chairman of the Polotsk town hall.
The local authorities use questionnaires, polling among citizens and organizations, debates in local press.
The idea to rename one of the streets in Polotsk into Grunwaldskaya was initiated by the Polotsk Zemlyachestvo association. Its members believe that...
30 March 2010
The creation of a single database has allowed detecting another 280 children in social risk in the Vitebsk Oblast, said Tamara Olekhnovich, Deputy Chairperson of the Underage Affairs Commission of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, at a session of the oblast coordinating council on 29 March.
The database combines not only data sent by education boards, police departments and commissions for affairs of the underage but information sent by Emergencies Ministry specialists and medics, who...
30 March 2010
VITEBSK, 30 March (BelTA) – On the eve of the Unity Day of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia, Moscow gymnasium students will get familiar with the history of the partisan movement in the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from Zoya Krot, Chairman of the Vitebsk department of the Belarusian Peace Fund.
Senior students of Moscow gymnasium No 1584 are set to visit Rossony first to see the comradeship-in-arms museum, a memorial room to Hero of the Soviet Union Piotr Masherov as well as places...