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Every 8th investment project implemented in small towns of Vitebsk envisages starting up a new manufacture, deputy head of the economy committee of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee Zinaida Koroleva told BelTA. There are 400 projects on the state programme of small town development in the Vitebsk oblast. The total investments in the projects amount to Br 800 billion. The new manufactures are mainly oriented on processing of local raw materials, including timber and agricultural...

For the forthcoming Christmas holidays all the nine health resorts of the Vitebsk oblast can no longer invite new customers, BelTA learnt from Elena Andreikova, the head of an office of the Vitebsk oblast department of the national centre for population recuperation and treatment. During the period from December 29 to January 7, more than 20 thousand people (60% of them are the Russian citizens) will have a rest in the Vitebsk health resorts. According to Elena Andreikova, the Vitebsk...

The Vitebsk oblast territorial fund Vitebskoblimuschestvo will arrange the first auction on December 17 to sell unused real estate with the starting price set at one basic amount (Br35,000 starting December 1), head of Vitebskoblimuschestvo’s auctions department Larisa Scheglova told BelTA. Four unfinished buildings with the total area of 5,400 square metres in the Polotsk region have been put up for auction. Their readiness varies from 9% to 29%. Their market value exceeds Br1 billion....

Foundation documents for setting up a Belarusian-Italian joint venture ICLBel specialising in forest harvesting and chip fuel were signed in Vitebsk on November 12. The joint project will be implemented on the basis of Liozno forestry enterprise. Deputy Forestry Industry Minister of Belarus Yuri Nazarov took part in the signing. The Italian side was represented by Global Wood Holding SA. The group of Italian specialists was headed by Vice President of UniCredit Group Fabrizio Palenzona....

A self-supporting division of the republican unitary company Vityas – Vityas Construction Department – has launched the production of heat-keeping polysterene concrete blocks, BelTA learnt from Valery Chertkov, the chief of the department. The first consignment of blocks – 200 cubic meters – has already been sold to Russian building companies, which actively use this construction material. According to Valery Chertkov, Russian companies started the production of polysterene concrete...

Oxford students use distance learning to study the discipline “Information Technologies in the Republic of Belarus”. The courses are led by Mikhail Borisevich, head of the Computer Education Department of the Vitebsk State Veterinary Medicine Academy, assistant professor, Candidate of Physics and Maths, corresponding member of the Belarusian Engineering Academy, full member of Oxford University. Mikhail Borisevich explained, Belarusian professors employ Internet technologies to offer...