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MINSK, 30 June (BelTA) – Representatives of 34 countries will take part in the 18th international arts festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk, director of the festival Rodion Bass told a press conference on 30 June. This year singers from 17 countries will take part in the contest of young singers. Representatives of Brazil and Vietnam will attend the Vitebsk festival for the first time. A Brazilian singer will participate in the contest of young singers and a Vietnamese folk group will...

VITEBSK, June 1 (BelTA) – Gotland Country of Sweden is ready to share its new energy-saving technologies which are applied in dolomite production and processing with Vitebsk, governor of the Swedish island Marianne Samuelson said as she met with chairman of the Vitebsk City Council Viktor Nikolaikin. According to Marianne Samuelson, there is a big dolomite processing company on the island. Its specialists are ready to share the new technologies with the Vitebsk-based Dolomit Company. They...

VITEBSK, May 20 (BelTA) – Scientists from Belarus, Russia, Poland, Sweden and Greece will discuss arterial hypertension. They will take part in the 5th international conference which will be held in the Vitebsk State Medical University on May 21-22, BelTA learnt from Vladislav Podpalov, head of the therapy department of the Vitebsk State Medical University. Attending the conference will be more than 500 experts including famous researchers, physicians and students of the Vitebsk State...

VITEBSK, May 18 (BelTA) – Students from Belarus, Poland and Latvia will participate in the Art-Session Contest which will be held in Vitebsk on May 21-23, BelTA learnt from the youth department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Taking part in the contest are students of art colleges and universities. The event is traditionally held in the Vitebsk Concert Hall. The contest includes seven sections: painting, graphic art, sculpture, applied and decorative arts, avant-garde,...

VITEBSK, May 13 (BelTA) – More than 300 athletes will take part in the National Athletics Student Games which will open in the Vitebsk Central Sports Centre on May 14, BelTA learnt from Yuri Nedosekov, state coach of the national athletics team in the Vitebsk oblast. Within three days, teams of twenty-three universities of the country will compete in more than twenty-three sports. Among them will be some strong athletes including participants of Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing Maria...

MINSK, May 8 (BelTA) – Belarus and Spain have coordinated the draft intergovernmental agreement on recuperation of Belarusian children in the Kingdom of Spain. The talks were held in the Department for Humanitarian Activity of the Property Management Directorate of the President of Belarus and involved officials of the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Health and Social Policy of Spain and also the Embassy of Spain in Russia and Belarus (on concurrent), BelTA learnt from the head of the...