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VITEBSK, 11 April (BelTA) – An exhibition of innovative projects from researchers and manufacturers of Vitebsk Oblast will be held as part of the investment and innovation forum “Vitebsk Oblast Investment Initiatives” for the first time on 20-21 May, representatives of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA. The forum is supposed to invigorate bilateral cooperation between regions, towns, economic entities, to contribute to increasing the export and...

POLOTSK, 8 April (BelTA) – Polotsk is the birthplace of the Belarusian state and spirituality. It should be borne in mind during the development of the town as a tourist destination. The opinion was voiced by Anatoly Tozik, Vice Prime Minister of Belarus, Chairman of the Tourism Expert and Coordination Council under the Council of Ministers, at a visiting session. The visiting session is supposed to take place in Polotsk and Novopolotsk. Anatoly Tozik believes that in order to advance...

VITEBSK, 5 April (BelTA) – Over 60 artists from seven countries have applied for participation in the 3rd International Biennale “Water+Color” in Polotsk, BelTA learnt from Larisa Lysenko, chief of the arts gallery of the National Polotsk History and Culture Museum-Reserve. This event has been organized by the museum-reserve and the Belarusian Union of Artists. The biennale major theme will be Watercolor Space. Watercolorists from Belarus, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia,...

VITEBSK, 1 April (BelTA) – A memorial plate to Hero of Russia Alexei Vorobyev will be unveiled in his homeland, the village of Borovukha (Polotsk District, Vitebsk Oblast) on the Unity Day of Belarusian and Russian Peoples on 2 April, BelTA learnt from chairman of the Borovukha village executive committee Sergei Splender. Back in the Soviet Union, the village of Borovukha was called the capital of the blue berets: the 350th and 357th parachute regiments of the famous 103rd airborne...

VITEBSK, 1 April (BelTA) – Around 1,900 names of Fatherland defenders, who were buried in Vitebsk Oblast, were ascertained in 2010, BelTA learned from Sergei Olsevich, Deputy Military Commissioner of the Vitebsk Oblast Military Commissariat. Field excavations were arranged in Gorodok District, Beshenkovichi District, Braslav District, Vitebsk District, Polotsk District, Dokshitsy District, Verkhnedvinsk District and Tolochin District. Personnel of military unit No 28443 worked at 27 sites,...

VITEBSK, 31 March (BelTA) – For the past four years Vitebsk Oblast has allocated over Br3.7 billion on barrier-free environment, BelTA learnt from the labor, employment and social security committee of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Vitebsk Oblast is in the middle of the program on the phased reconstruction of the road network, pedestrian crossings to make them user-friendly to persons with disabilities. Overhaul and maintenance works to improve surface of streets, exits and...