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13 February 2012
VITEBSK, 13 February (BelTA) – An organizing committee to mark the 125th anniversary of Marc Chagall’s birth has been created in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from Vladimir Terentiev, head of the culture department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.
The birthday celebration of the famous countryman has become a good tradition in Vitebsk. Though the official birthday of the artist is on 6 July, Chagall always celebrated it on 7 July. That is why the home-museum of Marc Chagall will host...
8 February 2012
VITEBSK, 8 February (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Oblast Diagnostics Center received medical equipment for its speech and hearing correction department as a gift from the Embassy of Poland and the public charity organization Verbalik on 8 February, BelTA has learned.
Head physician of the diagnostics center Vladimir Orekhva told reporters, they have received an impedance audiometer, a system for registering otoacoustic emissions Eclipse. Denmark-made, the equipment cost over ?40,000. It allows...
6 February 2012
VITEBSK, 6 February (BelTA) – In 2011, 47 foreign nationals living in Vitebsk Oblast were stripped of residence permits for systematic violation of the Administrative Code, BelTA learnt from chief of the citizenship and migration bureau of the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Tatiana Romashova.
In line with the law “Concerning the legal status of foreign nationals in the Republic of Belarus”, residence permits can be annulled for committing a...
31 January 2012
VITEBSK, 31 January (BelTA) – The Consulate of the Republic of Latvia in Vitebsk is ready to issue permits for small-sale border traffic to residents of the border territories of Belarus, BelTA learnt from the head of the Latvian Consulate in Vitebsk Dagnija Lace-Ate.
In accordance with the agreement between the Governments of Belarus and Latvia on small-scale border traffic of 23 August 2010, consulates will start to accept documents for permits on 1 February this year.
The Consulate of...
30 January 2012
MINSK, 30 January (BelTA) – The Transport and Communications Ministry of Belarus, Ukraine’s Motor Sich and the private company Systems of Investments and Innovations have signed an investment contract on upgrading the Orsha aircraft repair plant, BelTA learnt from the ministry’s aviation department.
The agreement was concluded during a visit of the senior officials of the company to Minsk. There are plans to build a modern warehouse terminal, office buildings that will house customs...
26 January 2012
VITEBSK, 25 January (BelTA) – Public utilities of Ulyanovsk Oblast (Russian Federation) were on a visit in Lepel District to study the experience of housing and utilities companies, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Pshonka, head of the department of housing and utilities of the Lepel District Executive Committee.
Russian colleagues were interested in the operation of heating system for multi-family houses, the boiler houses fired by local fuels, management of apartment blocks, tariffs for the...
