Italy’s Parma is ready to expand all-round cooperation with Gomel Oblast, including the implementation of humanitarian projects and setting up joint companies, President of the Italian association Help for Children Parma Giancarlo Veneri told BelTA. He is heading the Italian delegation that is on a five-day visit to Gomel Oblast. Giancarlo Veneri noted that the cooperation between Italy’s Parma and Gomel Oblast started 20 years ago and has changed a lot since then. The cooperation...

The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft intends to develop oil and natural gas extraction projects in Latin America in 2016, the company's press service told BelTA.

The electric cars market in Belarus will not be able to grow without state support or, to be exact, without the relevant government program that would encourage the use of this means of transportation, BelTA learned from Sergei Kamornikov, Deputy Director General of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft.

Gomel Oblast and Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast have plans to set up a joint machine-tool holding company. The matter was discussed at a meeting between Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik and Head of the Representative Office of Nizhny Novgorod in Belarus Sergei Petrov on 11 December, BelTA has learned.

Development of industrial tourism was high on the agenda of the session of the Gomel City Hall to discuss the city tourism development plan of action for 2011-2015, BelTA has learned.

The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft will carry out 22 hydrocracking operations at hydrocarbon deposits in Russia's Krasnodar Krai in December, the company's press service told BelTA.

The Belarusian-Russian twin-town relations create a unique environment for productive trade and economic cooperation and the development of public diplomacy as well as make up a spiritual component part of the brotherhood of the two nations, Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, Chairman of the Belarusian public organization Twinned Towns Boris Batura said at the 8th meeting of Belarusian and Russian twin towns in Podolsk on 27 November, BelTA informs.

The main potential for developing economic ties between Belarus and Russia lies with interregional cooperation, BelTA learned from Konstantin Artyushin, a trade commissioner of Russia in Belarus, in Gomel on 16 November. Konstantin Artyushin met with Gomel Oblast Governor Vladimir Dvornik on 16 November. Konstantin Artyushin said this kind of cooperation allows implementing a large number of local projects of great importance for specific regions. Russia’s trade commissioner stated...

Belarus' Gomel Oblast has a well-developed sports infrastructure, so it may become a training ground for Italian athletes, President of the YRA Humanitarian Association Egidio Lazzarini said as he met with Gomel Oblast authorities on 4 November. A delegation of businessmen and civil servants working in the field of sport from the Italian province of Tuscany, led by Egidio Lazzarini, is currently on a visit to Belarus' Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learned.

Before the end of 2017 the European Union is expected to allocate €5 million for the implementation of the Belarus-UNDP project on the development of local initiatives, UNDP Deputy Permanent Representative in Belarus Yekaterina Paniklova told media ahead of the roundtable on sustainable social and economic development of the Chernobyl-hit regions scheduled for 27 October as part of the UN70 Express campaign in Gomel.