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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...

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...

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...

VITEBSK, 26 March (BelTA) – The toughest competition is expected to unfold at the elections to the Vitebsk, Orsha, Polotsk and Novopolotsk town councils. Here the competition will average 1.66 people per one seat, BelTA learnt from the oblast election commission for the elections to the local Councils of Deputies of the 26th convocation. Some 98 candidates will compete for 60 seats at the Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies. Political parties are represented by 18 candidates, of them nine...

VITEBSK, 19 March (BelTA) – The first Baldinini shoe store may open in Vitebsk this year, BelTA learnt from Marko Director General Nikolai Martynov. According to him, the Belarusian footwear manufacturer Marko and Italian Baldinini have agreed to open a monobrand store in Belarus. The Baldinini distribution network operates in the CIS and Eastern Europe. The first Baldinini store in Belarus is expected to open by Christmas holidays. The store will be placed in the business-center which is...

VITEBSK, 19 March (BelTA) - The Belarusian footwear manufacturer Marko and Italian Baldinini have signed the cooperation agreement, BelTA learnt from Marko Director General Nikolai Martynov. In line with the agreements reached in July-August 2009, Marko’s factory San Marko is expected to start manufacturing high-quality leather footwear under Baldinini’s supervision. Before that Belarusian specialists will get on-the-job training in Italy. The Italian company will provide all the...