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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko held a government conference on 18 December to discuss the state and prospects of development of Belarus' raw materials base. Alexander Lukashenko gave instructions to fully examine promising areas in the country for possible new oil deposits, BelTA has learned. The Orsha depression in Vitebsk Oblast and the Podlaska-Brest depression in Brest Oblast and Grodno Oblast will be surveyed. These territories are understudied for now. Specialists should...

A declaration of intent was signed by the Belarusian Education Ministry and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk on 15 December, BelTA has learned. In line with the declaration the sides intend to expand the pilot project that will allow school students in Vitebsk Oblast, Gomel Oblast, and Mogilev Oblast to take DSD-1 exams. It is the kind of exams that school students outside Germany take for the sake of confirming their mastery of German. The project began in 2008 as an...

Marc Chagall's museums in Vitebsk, Belarus and Nice, France intend to promote closer cooperation. The mutual interest in expanding the contacts was expressed when representatives of the French museum visited Vitebsk on 3 December, BelTA learned from Irina Voronova, Director of the Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk. Anne Dopffer, Director of the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice, and the museum's curator Blanche Grinbaum-Salgas arrived in Belarus to discuss the organization of an...

Vitebsk State Technological University hopes to join the Association of Universities for Textiles AUTEX, head of the department of textile material technologies at Vitebsk State Technological University Dmitry Ryklin told media during the international conference "New Technique and Technology in the Textile and Light Industry" on 25 November, BelTA informs. Earlier Vitebsk State Technological University signed an agreement on cooperation with France's Haute-Alsace University. Professor...

There are good prospects in the medical cooperation of Belarus and Israel because it relies on the solid ties between hospitals and specialists, the Charge d'Affaires of Israel to Belarus told BelTA at the Belarusian national conference with international participation "Modern medical technologies in solving the problem of infertile couples" on 20 November. "There are many good medical specialists in Belarus. Many doctors who are now working in Israeli hospitals were born in Belarus or...

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) plans to open an education center at the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, head of the OIE Office for Eastern Europe Kazimieras Lukauskas, BelTA has learned. "We will continue to work closely with Belarus. In Vitebsk we are planning to open a twinning center with a veterinary school in Europe. This center will be engaged in training and improvement of professional skills of all veterinarians in Europe and maybe the world," said...