Region
23 January 2009
The building, which was once the Vitebsk public art school established by Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich, will be turned into a museum. This investment project is being implemented by the Vitebsk centre of modern art, BelTA learnt from the centre’s director Valentina Kirillova.
At the first stage, the project will be financed with the help of a grant of the Embassy of the USA in the Republic of Belarus. The museum gained this grant within the cultural heritage conservation programme. At...
22 January 2009
Akimov State Academic Comedy Theatre has brought its best theatricals to Vitebsk, literary manager of the theatre Marina Bykova told a press conference on January 21. The performances will be held on January 21-30; all the tickets have been sold, BelTA has learnt.
The programme will be opened by a popular comedy by English playwright William Wycherley The Country Wife directed by artistic director of the theatre Tatiana Kazakova. It is the first and only stage version of this play in Russia,...
21 January 2009
Around 100 representatives of companies and organizations of the Vitebsk oblast will take part in the seminar dedicated to minimization of the impact of the global financial market on industrial companies of the region. The seminar will be held in the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee on January 26, BelTA learnt in the Vitebsk Oblast Union of Employers.
During the seminar, its participants are set to discuss the development of the global financial crisis, the tendencies of the economy...
20 January 2009
The main justice department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee intends to improve the technical maintenance of the registering bodies which were charged to conduct declarative state registration of businesses since February 1, 2009, Ilona Shulga, deputy head of the main justice department, told BelTA.
According to her, in practice, the Vitebsk oblast is ready to introduce the declarative state registration of businesses.
At present, specialists of the Vitebsk oblast are improving...
5 January 2009
In line with the Union State Permanent Committee programme, over 200 Russian children underwent a recuperation course in the children’s resort centre Zhemchuzhina in the Lepel region in 2008, the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from director of the centre Vera Zakrevskaya.
It is the sixth year in a row that the centre has won the tender to receive the children from the Chernobyl-hit regions of the Union State. In September-December 2008, the Zhemchuzhina resort centre welcomed the children...
24 December 2008
The experimental plant of the Vitebsk State Technological University (VSTU) has developed the production of medical knitted fabric used for local treatment of burns and wounds. The first batch of the fabric is being manufactured for Borisov Pharmaceutical Plant, BelTA learnt from the enterprise.
The knitted fabric is the basis for the production of dressing. The fabric is soaked with special ointments and cut in the forms of bandages and tissues. This fabric was developed by the specialists...