MINSK, 30 November (BelTA) – Gomel may become the Commonwealth Capital of Culture in 2011, deputy head of the humanitarian cooperation department of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia Sergei Kazantsev told media on 30 November. He is taking part in a session of the CIS experts on discussing an interstate program Commonwealth Capitals of Culture in Minsk, BelTA has learnt. In 2011 the CIS two countries (Belarus and Russia) plan to present their cities as cultural capitals. The...

GOMEL, 12 November (BelTA) – Ten large-scale investment projects to the total of more than $530 million are being implemented in Gomel Oblast, BelTA learnt from Economy Department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The most significant of them are: renovation of the joint Belarusian-Finnish company, Ingman Ice Cream, development of chalk deposits and construction of a cement plant by the Iranian AZARAB, and setting-up of a joint company, Kateh-Polesie to manufacture copper wire...

GOMEL, 10 November (BelTA) – Rechitsa is set to host an investment forum, RechitsaInvest-2010, on 12 November. Taking part in it will be about eighty businessmen, diplomats and government officials from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, BelTA learnt from the forum’s organizing committee. The forum will display 26 investment projects which may be eye-catching for foreign businessmen. The major projects will be presented at plenary meeting. These projects include the...

GOMEL, 5 November (BelTA) – The administration of the free economic zone Gomel-Raton will present an investment project at the Belarus Investment Forum in Frankfurt am Main. The project envisages the creation of a transportation and logistics center in the free economic zone, representatives of the Economy Committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA. The project is one of the main ones laid down by a complex program, which is meant to develop the transport infrastructure...

GOMEL, 25 October (BelTA) – The 7th international exhibition-fair, Business in the Regions, will be held in Gomel on 26-29 October. Taking part in the forum will be more than fifty companies from Belarus and Russia, BelTA learnt from the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). The main distinctive feature of this year’s exhibition is a significant increase in the number of participants representing private industrial sector. The organizers believe this...

GOMEL, 15 September (BelTA) – The European Union intends to aid the development of initiatives of private agricultural producers in the areas in Gomel Oblast that have been most affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe. The information was released by Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk Benedikt Haller in Gomel. Benedikt Haller is on a tour around Gomel Oblast on 15-16 September. “Apart from plant cultivation and animal breeding technologies we would like to teach a complex approach to...

GOMEL, 15 September (BelTA) – The 7th international exhibition-fair Business in the Regions will be held at the Gomel Community Center on 26-29 October, BelTA learnt from the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). The forum is traditionally organized by the BCCI regional office and the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The exhibition is aimed to demonstrate and promote new products and services of small and medium-sized business, forge new partnerships,...

GOMEL, 10 September (BelTA) – Partaking in the Gomel Economic Conference are 28 delegations from 7 countries. Alongside with businessmen the conference is attended by representatives of 13 twin-towns, Chairman of the Gomel City Hall Viktor Pilipets told media on 10 September. In his words, such attention from potential investors demonstrates their big interest in the joint activity. Three investment agreements are to be signed during the conference envisaging the construction of a...

GOMEL, 20 August (BelTA) – The First Gomel Economic Conference will be held on 10 September, BelTA learned from the ideology department of the Gomel City Council. The main goal of the conference is to develop partnership and increase foreign investments in the economy of the city. More than 20 official delegations from the Gomel twin-towns from neighboring and other countries, businessmen who implement investment projects in Gomel, potential investors have been invited to take part in...

GOMEL, 11 August (BelTA) – The exhibition Traditions and Culture of Japan will open at Grigory Vashchenko’s Picture Gallery in Gomel on 11 August, BelTA learnt from gallery funds chief curator Oleg Kurashov. Exhibits have been provided by the Embassy of Japan in Belarus. The collection will feature the major traditions and everyday life of the Japanese. In particular, the visitors will be able to get familiar with tea ceremony sets, Japanese traditional cuisine. There will be also...