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VITEBSK, 31 May (BelTA) – Knights from five countries will come to Polotsk for the Rubon medieval festival, BelTA learnt from the Polotsk City Hall. The medieval festival makes part of the program dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of Polotsk. This year the list of participants includes historical reenactment clubs from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The festival will feature the reenactment of the assault on a medieval castle located on the...

VITEBSK, 30 May (BelTA) – Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov and Magna Carta College, Oxford, signed an agreement on bilateral cooperation, BelTA learnt from the Vitebsk university. The Vitebsk university and the Oxford College will cooperate under two concurrent education programs: Bachelor’s and Master’s. The course comprises distance education and face-to-face lectures by English professors at the Vitebsk University. Thus, Vitebsk students will get an opportunity to...

VITEBSK, 29 May (BelTA) – In January-April this year, taxes paid by the biggest companies of Vitebsk Oblast to the budget rose by almost 62% compared with the same period last year, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Vitebsk Oblast branch of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of Belarus. Over this period, the region’s biggest taxpayers transferred Br1,349 billion (49.9% of all taxes) to the budget. The tax payments by this category of taxpayers rose by Br516.4 billion compared...

VITEBSK, 28 May (BelTA) – Mingachevir from Azerbaijan and Armenian Alaverdi became twin-towns of Polotsk. Cooperation agreements were signed during the days of the 1150th celebrations of Polotsk. Twin-town agreements between Polotsk and Alaverdi were signed on 26 May by Alexander Poznyak, Chairman of the Polotsk City Council and Mayor of Alaverdi Artavazd Varosyan. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Belarus Armen Khachatryan also took part in the ceremony,...

VITEBSK, 23 May (BelTA) – Vitebsk and Orsha are gearing up to welcome the participants of the Union State youth cycling race, Youth of Russia and Belarus – the Road to the Union State Future, BelTA learnt from head of the department for youth affairs of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee Valery Kunashko. The cycling race is dedicated to Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. Joint activities of youth from Russia and Belarus help create the system of spiritual and...

VITEBSK, 22 May (BelTA) – Official delegations of 16 partner towns of Polotsk will take part in the celebration of the 1150th anniversary of the oldest town in Belarus, representatives of the Ideology Department of the Polotsk Town Executive Committee told BelTA. The number includes towns in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Germany. The list of Polotsk’s partner towns will grow larger during the celebration. An agreement on cooperation in economy and culture is...