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VITEBSK, 23 September (BelTA) – The vote count process is transparent and open, CIS observer Anatoly Pevnev told media on 23 September. “The vote count process is going on openly. Observers stand near tables and the entire procedure is open to them from ballot box unsealing to the counting of votes. No manipulation can be done in such conditions,” he stressed. According to Anatoly Pevnev, observers sent by opposition parties have made no remarks regarding the vote count procedure....

VITEBSK, 23 September (BelTA) – It is impossible to forge results of the ongoing parliamentary elections in Belarus, believes CIS observer Sergei Kondratenko, Deputy Chairman of the Tula Oblast Duma. “The large number of domestic and international observers, who are monitoring the election campaign, makes forging voting [results] impossible,” he stated. In his words, the number of observers at a polling station varied from 4 to 12 people. None of them had complaints while talking to...

MINSK, 20 September (BelTA) – The Belarusian petrochemical company OAO Naftan will spend $700 million on installing a delayed coking plant, Dmitry Avrach, Deputy Head of the Central Office for Prospective Development and Investment of the Belarusian state petrochemical concern Belneftekhim, told media on 20 September. The project envisages the construction of a delayed coking plant, plants to make hydrogen and sulfur, and the reconstruction of two hydrofining plants. The project’s...

VITEBSK, 20 September (BelTA) – Over 30 observers from the CIS are going to monitor the elections at polling stations located in Vitebsk Oblast on election day, BelTA learnt from deputy head of the HR management department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Leonid Dorofeyenko. Other short-term observers include members of the OSCE/ODIHR mission. Over 4,000 domestic observers are going to monitor the elections. Thus, some four or even more observers on the average will be present at...

MINSK, 17 September (BelTA) – Medical education in Belarus meets international standards, said Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, co-head of the anesthesiology and critical care department of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Vladimir Zelman, MD. He has read a lecture for students and staff of Vitebsk State Medical University, BelTA has learnt. The famous scientist...

VITEBSK, 17 September (BelTA) – It is encouraging that a considerable number of party nominees takes part in the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission Antonio Milososki told BelTA in Vitebsk on 17 September. The mission has met with members of the district election commission of Vitebsky-Gorkovsky electoral district No. 17 and parliamentary candidates standing for elections in this district. “We...