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POLOTSK, 21 May (BelTA) – A chapel memorial to the 1812 War heroes was solemnly unveiled in Polotsk on 21 May, BelTA has learnt. “The restoration and opening of 1812 War Memorial is a great event for the peoples of Belarus and Russia. It shows we are not going to rewrite our common history. It is time to restore the monuments and strengthen the links between the two nations,” PA Deputy Chairman, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia Alexander Babakov said...

MINSK, 20 May (BelTA) – The 32nd session of the Interbank Currency Council of the Central Banks of Belarus and Russia will take place in Vitebsk on 21-22 May, BelTA learned from the information department of the National Bank of Belarus. Partaking in the session will be Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Piotr Prokopovich, Chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergei Ignatyev, other members of the central banks of the two countries. The participants of the session will take...

VITEBSK, 19 May (BelTA) – The agreement between employers’ associations of the Vitebsk Oblast and the Kaluga Oblast (Russian Federation) will help the regional companies develop investment cooperation and implement joint projects, Sergei Potekhin, Director General of the Kaluga Association of Industrialists and Businessmen, told reporters in Vitebsk. A number of companies of the Belarusian and Russian regions have already established cooperation in the energy-saving area. The signed...

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,...