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VITEBSK, 8 April (BelTA) – Students from four countries are competing at the 3rd international modern dance festival, Make a Step Forward, in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Oblast Committee of the BRSM Youth Union. The three-day dance forum has gathered the best dancers of 16 universities of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. Belarus is represented at the festival by Belarusian National Technical University, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics,...

VITEBSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Vitebskkhlebprom has plans to start exporting toast bread to Russia in 2014, BelTA learnt from chief technologist of the company Olga Pavluchenko. The Vitebsk-based company started making crunchy toasts under the Tostini trademark in the first half of 2013. A new shop floor with the total area of 696.8 square meters was built in the company to produce rusks, bakery products and toast bread. The project cost is estimated at about Br31.4 billion. The area of the...

VITEBSK, 24 March (BelTA) – Cultures of five countries will be presented at the second open interuniversity celebration of Nowruz, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk Culture Center. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Tatarstan, and Turkmenistan celebrate the Nowruz holiday every year. Vitebsk universities have foreign students from these countries. The students will present their Nowruz celebration traditions to the residents of Vitebsk on 24 March. The celebration will start at the Culture...

VITEBSK, 19 March (BelTA) – The Heroes Park will be laid in Dubrovno to mark the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from the Nazis, BelTA learnt from the Dubrovno District Executive Committee. In 2014 the park will eternalize the memory of nine Heroes of the Soviet Union who took part in the liberation of the region from the Nazis. “The idea appeared two years ago. The park has already been beautified. This year there are plans to install steles and memorial stones in honor of...

VITEBSK, 11 March (BelTA) – Vitebsk will hold the regional selection round for the song contests of the 23rd International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar at the Vitebsk Culture Center on 11 March, BelTA learnt from the center. Vitebsk will hold the regional selection round of the children’s song contest for the first time. Partaking in the elimination stage will be singers from Lepel, Dokshytsy, Polotsk, Novopolotsk, Tolochin, Beshenkovichi, and Vitebsk. “Every contestant will...

VITEBSK, 4 March (BelTA) – Performers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Poland and Germany will take part in the concerts of the 27th International Festival of Ancient and Contemporary Chamber Music which is due in Polotsk on 13 March - 2 May, BelTA learnt from the Concert Hall in St. Sophia Cathedral. The Music of Kings program will open the festival. People’s Artist of the Republic of Belarus soloist of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater Oksana Volkova...