GOMELBelTA) - Italy's Parma would like to expand cooperation with Gomel Oblast in healthcare, President of the Italian association Help for Children Parma Giancarlo Veneri told BelTA. He is heading the Italian delegation that is on a visit to Gomel Oblast.   Giancarlo Veneri noted that the cooperation between the Italian province of Parma and Gomel Oblast began 20 years ago with humanitarian projects. Gradually the regions started cooperating in the economic and social fields....

 MINSK (BelTA) – The Russian budget airline Pobeda has been authorized to offer flights between Saint Petersburg and Minsk and between Moscow and Gomel, BelTA learned from Vladimir Kostin, Director of the Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry. According to the source, the Russian air carrier Pobeda was authorized to service Saint Petersburg-Minsk flights and Moscow-Gomel flights after meeting the necessary conditions and passing the...

MINSK, 27 December (BelTA) – Christmas Trees for Peace, the traditional New Year meetings between school students from different countries, are taking place from 22 to 28 December in Gomel Oblast. Held by the Gomel Oblast office of the Belarusian Peace Fund, the meetings will bring together over 350 children from Belarus, Latvia, and Russia, BelTA learned from head of the fund's Gomel Oblast office Timofei Glushakov.   In 2017, the international meetings will be held in Gomel,...

GOMEL, 19 December (BelTA) – Specialists from seven countries will take part in the international conference Innovative Technologies in the Agro-Industry that will be held at the sci-tech center of combine harvester manufacturing of OAO Gomselmash on 21-22 December, BelTA learned from the organizing committee. Invitations to take part in the discussion on the expansion of the sci-tech cooperation in designing and launching the production of innovative competitive equipment for the...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The ceremony to open the first regional Confucius institute will take place in the Gomel State University on 20 December, representatives of the university told BelTA.  The agreement to set up the Confucius institute was signed by the university’s rector Sergei Khakhomov and President of the Nanjing University of Science and Technology Fu Mengyin on 10 December when top officials of the Gomel State University visited China. Participants of the first session of...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Kazakh joint venture, which is based at premises of the company Agromashholding in Kostanay, Kazakhstan will start assembling two new grain harvester models in 2018, BelTA learned from Dmitry Afanasyev, Deputy Director of the Regional Sales Department, Head of the Kazakhstan Sales Office at the Belarusian agricultural machinery engineering company Gomselmash.  The Belarusian-Kazakh joint venture will start offering KZS-575 and KZS-10 models. The new...

GOMEL(BelTA) - Sweden would like to expand bilateral cooperation with Gomel Oblast, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden to Belarus Christina Johannesson told the media after her meeting with Gomel Mayor Piotr Kirichenko on 22 November, BelTA has learned.   According to the diplomat, the cooperation between Gomel Oblast and Sweden needs to be developed further.   In her words, today's economy of any country largely depends on small and medium-sized...

GOMEL (BelTA) – Gomel craftsmen brought home awards from the international textile doll and toy competition. The winners were announced at the Craft Bazaar exhibition in St Petersburg, Russia, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Guild of Craftsmen. The handiwork competition and an exhibition fair gathered dozens of craftsmen from Russia, Estonia, and Belarus. The exposition featured interior and household items, toys, attire, designer clothes and accessories. Belarus was...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The administrations of Gomel Oblast and Kherson Oblast as well as the Nikolayev-based agricultural company Nibulon have signed a trilateral memorandum on cooperation and partnership in order to implement a project on restoring the navigation on the Dnieper River, BelTA learned from spokeswoman for the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Olga Ryabikova.  The document was signed during the tenth international investment forum Taurida Horizons which took place in the city of...

GOMEL, 27 September (BelTA) – R&D products of Belarusian scientists are used to rehabilitate territories polluted by the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, BelTA learned from Shuichi Okumoto, an employee of the EM Research Organization (EMRO), Japan. Shuichi Okumoto took part in the international scientific conference Radiobiology: Challenges of the 21st Century in Gomel on 27 September. The conference is timed to the 30th anniversary of the Radiobiology Institute of the...