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VITEBSK, 22 April (BelTA) – Kraslava Municipality of Latvia is interested in joint investment projects with Vitebsk Oblast, Kraslava Mayor Gunars Upenieks said at the opening of the exhibition of Lithunian painters in Vitebsk on 21 April, BelTA has learned. Cultural cooperation has always been a peculiar way to expand economic relations, Gunars Upenieks said. “Our businessmen are interested in various investment projects in Vitebsk Oblast and are ready to cooperate,” he stressed and...

VITEBSK, 22 April (BelTA) - Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Co PLC is now a co-founder of the Belarusian open joint-stock company BelVitunipharm along with the state. The work to set up the open joint-stock company via converting the state enterprise BelVitunipharm is over. The state registration of the new company took place on 21 April, BelTA learned from Mikhail Pavlyuchkov, Director of the Vitebskoblimushchestvo fund. Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Co PLC became a...

VITEBSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Wide use of intellectual resources of young scientists is a necessary condition for the innovative development of Vitebsk Oblast. The statement was made by Oleg Matskevich, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, at the ceremony of awarding talented scientists and specialists on 21 April. The open annual contest gathered 29 projects prepared by scientists from five universities of Vitebsk Oblast and the Technical Acoustics Institute of the...

VITEBSK, 21 April (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee has recently signed 34 investment agreements worth nearly Br490 billion. These are the results of Decree No. 10 “On Creating Additional Conditions for Investment Activity in the Republic of Belarus” that took affect a year and a half ago, BelTA learnt from head of the department for investment of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Natalia Saltanovich. One third of the agreements amounting to...

VITEBSK, 20 April (BelTA) – The Easter Festival started in Vitebsk on 20 April, BelTA learnt from the eparchial administration of the Vitebsk Orthodox Eparchy. The festival organized within the framework of the nationwide program "Family. Unity. Fatherland" features a variety of activities. On 20 April, members of the Union of Folk Artists will hold a master class on painting Easter eggs in the Dvina cultural and historical center. The exhibitions of icons “The Image of Christ the...

VITEBSK, 20 April (BelTA) – Tursab, the Union of Turkish Travel Agencies, is showing an interest in organizing tours to Vitebsk Oblast, BelTA learnt from Alexei Matyushko, chief of staff of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Representatives of Turkish travel companies will visit Vitebsk Oblast in late August to get familiar with local tourism opportunities. They will make a presentation video and prepare advertising materials about the type of recreation that can be offered to foreign...