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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...

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...

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...

The Vitebsk Oblast State Property Fund will hold the biggest auction for the recent five years on December 29. Some 60 lots are expected to be offered at the auction, BelTA learnt in the Fund. According to specialists, investors may show their greatest interest in a group of buildings in the village of Zabelie of the Beshenkovichi region where a recreation area is expected to be created. Participants of the auction may also show their interest in the premises of the former distillery in...

A chain of hydroelectric power stations will be constructed on the Dnieper by 2011, Sergei Nikitin, head of the energy strategy laboratory of Belarus’ NAS Energy Institution, said at a roundtable on December 17. According to him, the search for possible construction sites is underway. The potential of the Belarusian hydro-electric engineering is estimated at 800MW. The construction of the 17MW Grodno Hydroelectric Power Station on the Neman has already been launched. Technical documents...

The companies-exporters of the Vitebsk oblast should set up a commodity distribution network in Q1 2009. It was stated by Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets during a joint session of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee and the Presidium of the Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies on December 12. According to the Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, there is a need to diversify sales markets, attract big foreign trade networks to sell the...