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An independent project dedicated to Italian culture and art may become part of the program of the 26th international art festival Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from Alexander Sidorenko, director of the forum and President of the World Association of Festivals (WAF), on 16 March. Alexander Sidorenko said: "We constantly stay in touch with our partners in different countries and with diplomatic missions. A short while ago I met with the ambassador of Italy to Belarus. We...

An initiative to prevent children injuries has begun in Vitebsk as part of an EU-UN project, BelTA learned from Olga Bizikova, the coordinator of the local initiative, Chairwoman of the Vitebsk District Organization of the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross. The Vitebsk Oblast Organization of the Belarusian Society of the Red Cross and partnering organizations, which include the Vitebsk Oblast Clinical Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, the Vitebsk Oblast Clinical Center for Children,...

The State Border Committee of Belarus will launch a web resource to cover the relay race that will go along the borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The relay race is timed to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The web resource will become operational as part of the website of the Belarusian border service on 3 February, the press service of the Polotsk border unit told BelTA. The relay race began simultaneously in the Belarusian city of Brest and...

Postavymebel has shipped to Kazakhstan a sample of innovative products, a modern Erismann school desk, in order to promote it through the distributor and participation in the procurement tender, BelTA learnt from director of the company Sergei Zemchenok. Kazakhstan’s company Uchkollektor, a long-standing partner of the Postavy company, will present the product at the contest since Kazakhstan’s education system is served through procurement orders. “We have won local tenders before....

A recreation area with the associated infrastructure will be developed in Braslav, BelTA learnt from Deputy Chairman for Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities in the Braslav District Executive Committee Andrei Davydenko. Improvement of the technical capability of green zones in recreation areas has been chosen as one of the four priorities of the Local Environmental Action Plan (LEAP) under the STREAM program adopted at the meeting of the district executive committee and the...

The construction of sports facilities is ongoing in Vitebsk Oblast, deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Terentyev said after the ceremony to open the Vitebsk Regional Olympic Training Center of Martial Arts in the Vitebsk neighborhood Zhurzhevo, BelTA has learned. "The construction of new sports facilities never stops. This year we opened the big ice arena in Orsha. A multifunctional complex with a swimming pool was put into operation in Dokshitsy last...