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Vitebsk Oblast is interested in attracting China’s direct investment in energy, logistics, construction, pharmacy and IT, said Alexander Tikhonov, deputy head of the investment department at the Vitebsk Oblast economic committee. Currently there are no projects implemented with China’s direct investments in the oblast. However, there is a whole package of proposals on cooperation. A big project to set up an industrial and logistics park at the FEZ Vitebsk in Orsha District is...

Belarus and Russia’s Rostov Oblast have signed a protocol on developing cooperation in 2015-2016. The document was inked by Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Anatoly Kalinin and Rostov Oblast Governor Vasily Golubev during the session of the working group on Belarus-Rostov Oblast cooperation in Rostov-on-Don on 27 April, the press service of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia told BelTA. In particular, the protocol provides for more active cooperation in various areas, including economy,...

Latvia is one of the ten states, the enterprises of which are major trading partners of Vitebsk Oblast, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Oleg Matskevich said at a meeting of twin towns and partners of Belarus and Latvia, BelTA has learned. Oleg Matskevich noted that three Belarusian-Latvian meetings were already held, and two of them were hosted by Vitebsk Oblast. According to him, this is further evidence that the two regions of Belarus and Latvia maintain...

Pskov-based Stimul plans to open a public catering network Fast and Tasty in Vitebsk. It is one of the agreements reached during a business matchmaking session held as part of the international forum Innovations. Investments. Prospects held in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from Director of the Vitebsk Oblast Marketing Center Irina Makarenko. The producer of natural juice suggested opening a public catering network in Vitebsk to use the company’s ready-to-cook food. The parties are expected to...

Vitebsk will host the fifth edition of the international interuniversity modern dance festival Make a Step Forward! that will gather over 200 participants from 18 higher educational establishments of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine. Best student dance companies from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine (Minsk, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Moscow, Smolensk, Saint Petersburg, Velikiye Luki, Rostov-on-Don, and Kiev) will compete in different...

A monument to Prince Alexander Nevsky will be installed in Vitebsk within the next two years, Chairman of the Vitebsk City Hall Viktor Nikolaikin said at the meeting of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee which discussed the state program to promote tourism in Vitebsk Oblast on 26 March, BelTA has learned. In order to make the city more attractive for tourists we need to fulfill several conditions, and create more interesting objects, the Vitebsk mayor stressed. “We have been...