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18 July 2012
VITEBSK, 18 July (BelTA) – The closing ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will be held on 18 July, BelTA has learnt.
The star-studded closing ceremony will feature Alsou, Nadezhda Babkina and the Russian Song folk band, Alexander Marshal, Nyusha, Soso Pavliashvili, Viktoria Aleshko, Inna Afanasieva, Irina Dorofeyeva, Alexander Tikhanovich and Yadviga Poplavskaya, Chisty Golos band, Litesound, Nikolai Gnatyuk, Potap and Nastya.
The closing ceremony...
17 July 2012
MINSK, 17 July (BelTA) – The international youth camp Be-La-Rus will be held in Vitebsk Oblast on 26-29 July, the press service of the BRSM Youth Union told BelTA.
This year the international youth camp will bring together 650 young people. Its major theme will be cinema. “Guests and participants of the camp will be able to learn more about cinema, try their hand at movie-making, shoot a movie about the camp, attend master classes in movie-making,” the BRSM Youth Union informed....
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is an important cultural event both for Belarus and Russia, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told BelTA.
“The Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk is important not only for people living in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, but also for those living in the neighboring regions of Russia. They are looking forward to the event, and take vacations in order to come to Vitebsk,” Grigory Rapota said. He noted...
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus and Lori Province of Armenia signed a cooperation agreement on 16 July. Participating in the signing ceremony were Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets and Governor of Lori Province Arthur Nalbandyan, BelTA learnt.
The agreement stipulates major areas of in humanitarian and economic cooperation of the two regions. “Vitebsk Oblast is interested in bolstering industrial and agricultural ties,” Alexander...
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – Boban Mojsovski of Macedonia is leading after the second day of the 21st international song contest Vitebsk 2012, BelTA has learned.
On the second day of the contest the entries sang songs of Slavonic authors in Slavonic languages. The singers were accompanied by Mikhail Finberg’s National Concert Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. After two contest days Boban Mojsovski scored 199 points out of 220. The Macedonian singer may collect this year’s Grand Prix....
16 July 2012
VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota believes that there is no need to set up a coordination council to manage integration in the post-Soviet space. He made this statement at a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July, BelTA has learnt.
Grigory Rapota mentioned integration projects, like the CIS, EurAsEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, GUAM, and CSTO. “There are many of them. Countries that became independent and started looking for their place...
