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During the Belarus Investment Forum in London, businessmen and financial experts from Austria, Great Britain, Turkey and Poland showed their interest in an investment project of the Vitebsk Centre of Modern Art, Valentina Kirillova, the director of the centre, told BelTA. The Vitebsk Centre of Modern Art presented the project connected with the names of famous artists Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich who worked in Vitebsk in early 20s of the 20th century. The Vitebsk Centre of Modern Art...

Seven regions of the Vitebsk oblast represented almost 200 tourist facilities for participation in the Belarusian-Latvian tourist programme “Bella Dvina – traveling via borders, discovering culture, enjoying nature of Zapadnaya Dvina/Daugava region”, Olga Prokhorova, an expert of the project, representative of sport and tourism department of the Polotsk Town Executive Committee, told BelTA. The list of the tourist facilities includes not only monuments of history and culture but...

Over the ten months 2008, more than Br334 billion was invested in the economy of small towns of the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from Zinaida Koroleva, the deputy head of the economy department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. The small towns of the region are carrying out more than 240 investment projects. Some 15 new production facilities were set up. For instance, the Lepel Dairy Plant has launched the production of ice-cream. The production of packaging has been launched in...

The joint Belarusian-Latvian programme titled as Bella Dvina - Crossing the Border, Discovering the Culture, Enjoying the Nature of the Western Dvina/Daugava River Space starts in Polotsk on November 19, BelTA learnt from Igor Zagrekov, the chief specialist of the sport and tourism department of the Polotsk town council. On that day Polotsk will host an international conference “Development of tourism in the Bella Dvina region: national and cross-border aspects.” At the conference the...

The Free Economic Zone Vitebsk will present a project to set up the production of dried pectin and pectin-containing products at the Belarusian Investment Forum in London. The project is estimated at $37.5 million, BelTA learnt from the FEZ administration. This project will be implemented by the PECTO Company that became the resident company of the FEZ Vitebsk in 2007. The business plan of the project has already been elaborated; the PECTO Company is currently seeking co-investors. The...

Twenty state-run companies of the Vitebsk oblast (more than 9 thousand employees) are expected to be reorganized into open joint-stock societies in 2009, BelTA learnt from Svetlana Lukashevich, the director of the Vitebsk territorial fund “Vitebskoblimuschestvo”. The reorganization of the companies is held in line with the plan of privatization of state-run economic entities for 2008-2009 which was approved by Council of Ministers’ resolution No 1021 of July 14, 2008. The list of the...