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VITEBSK, 4 December (BelTA) – Orsha and Marupe Municipality of Latvia are establishing economic cooperation, BelTA learnt from Mr Oleg Smirnovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Orsha City Council. Representatives of Marupe Municipality are in Orsha on their first official visit. "We have had no business contacts before. We contacted the Consulate of Latvia in Vitebsk, and with their help reached to Marupe Municipality authorities and invited them on a business visit. Particular emphasis was...

VITEBSK, 29 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian town of Novopolotsk and Serbia’s Krusevac struck up a friendship following the Europa League match. The Serbian delegation is set to visit the Belarusian town soon to discuss cooperation prospects, BelTA learnt from chief of the ideology section of the Novopolotsk Town Executive Committee Yekaterina Baryshnikova. FC Naftan (Novopolotsk) played against Serbia’s FC Crvena Zvezda in the Europa League second qualifying round first leg match in...

VITESBK, 28 November (BelTA) - Distinguished musicians from Belarus, Russia, and Lithuania will gather for the 24th International Sollertinsky Music Festival in Vitebsk on 3-22 December, BelTA learnt from Ms Nelly Matsaberidze, the artistic director of the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic. This year the classical music event will be dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Sollertinsky. The festival will open with a traditional concert of professors and best students of Vitebsk...

VITEBSK, 21 November (BelTA) – A Czech company intends to invest about $10 million into the establishment of a compact factory to process peat in Liozno District, Mr Ivan Lavrinovich, Chairman of the Liozno District Executive Committee, told Mr Alexander Yakobson, Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus, on 21 November. BelTA has learned that the project is scheduled to be implemented in 2013-2015 and provides for starting the small-scale production of peat substrates and peat...

ORSHA, 20 November (BelTA) - Orsha and Smolensk signed a cooperation agreement, BelTA learnt from Ms Elena Rusakova, the head of the ideology department of the Orsha Town Executive Committee. The two parties intend to develop relations in trade, scientific, technological, culture and education, sports, and medicine. The authorities of the two twin-towns intend to contribute to the establishment of direct contacts between enterprises and economic entities, develop options for mutually...

VITEBSK, 19 November (BelTA) – The joint project “Book Bridges” will connect Vitebsk and Pskov, BelTA learnt from the Deputy Director of the Vitebsk Lenin Regional Library Ms Tatiana Adamyan. The joint project “Book Bridges” are carried out by the Vitebsk Lenin Regional Library and the Pskov Regional All-Service Scientific Library under the cooperation agreement signed by the two institutions in 2010, with a view to promoting the mutual enrichment of cultures, developing the...