MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) – In 2009 the Belarusian pipeline operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba will pump around 79 million tonnes of oil in 2009, the company’s Director General Sergei Sosnovsky told a press conference in Minsk on 16 November. The Gomel-based oil transportation operator has been working steadily, with nearly the maximum throughput over the last few years. Modernized, the company’s designed capacity is now close to 82 million tonnes per annum. In 2008 Gomeltransneft...

MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) –Belarusian Oil Company (BOC) is planning to open a subsidiary enterprise in Ukraine, Nikolai Vasilevich, BOC Deputy Director General, told a press conference on 16 November. The negotiations on this issue are underway with the BOC shareholders. The opening of the subsidiary in Ukraine is expected to make the sales of oil products more efficient and cover the whole market. The company is now considering the procedural issues, including a form, deadlines and...

GOMEL, 16 November (BelTA) – A team of the Gomel students – Gennady Korotkevich, Ivan Artiukhov and Mikhail Astashkevich – has won the 10th All-Russia Computer Programming Olympiad, BelTA learnt from the education department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The competition was held in St. Petersburg. Taking part in the Olympiad were more than 160 teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, various Russian regions, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and others. In the fight...

HOINIKI, 13 November (BelTA) – Gomel Oblast Governor Alexander Yakobson praised the achievements of the Gomel oblast agricultural workers in 2009 as he addressed the participants of the Dazhynki 2009 oblast festival/fair in Hoiniki on 13 November, BelTA has learnt. In 2009 like a year before the Gomel oblast harvested 1 million tonnes of cereal crops. Some years ago nobody would believe that it was possible, but good labor organization, restructuring, new technologies and scientific...

MINSK, 10 November (BelTA) – Finnish experts will share the experience of protecting border waterways with Belarusian border guards, BelTA has learnt from the press center of the State Border Guard Committee of Belarus. A reminder, on 21 October 2009 the State Border Guard Committee of Belarus joined the single European border system. The heads of the State Border Guard Committee and the European Union border protection agency Frontex signed a memorandum of cooperation. “Our country...

GOMEL, 10 November (BelTA) – At present the construction of ten new Orthodox temples is in progress in the Gomel oblast, BelTA learned from representatives of the Gomel Orthodox Eparchy. One of the temples under construction in Soligorsk was sanctified one of these days. The construction of a temple named after sanctifier Kirill of Turov has begun in Soligorsk’s former recreation park. After the foundation was laid down, a temple foundation prayer service was performed, an act which...

MINSK, 9 November (BelTA) – Iran’s AZARAB IND CO and the Gomel oblast executive committee will sign an investment agreement to construct a cement plant in the Podkamenie chalk deposit, Vetka region, BelTA learnt from the State Property Committee. The State Property Committee held a tender to find an investor for industrial development of the deposit and construction of the plant. “Now the Gomel oblast executive committee and the winner of the tender, Iranian AZARAB IND CO, are working...

GOMEL, 4 November (BelTA) – In January-October 2009 Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ) expanded its export geography by 17 countries, BelTA learned from representatives of the company’s Information and Ideology Department. The company has started supplying its products to Iraq, Iran, Israel, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Morocco and some other countries in Africa and Middle East. At present BMZ trades with almost 60 countries on five continents. BMZ stepped up...

MINSK, 30 October (BelTA) – Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus will cancel a postcard with an original postmark “200th Anniversary of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul” in Gomel using the stamp “The First Day”, the Gomel Orthodox Eparchy told BelTA. The memorable event will take place at Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace in Gomel on 31 October. Visitors of the palace will have a chance too see photos and documentary materials from the...

GOMEL, 28 October (BelTA) – Representatives of 16 nations are set to participate in the Gomel oblast tour of the 8th All-Belarusian Festival of National Cultures in Rogachev on 31 October, BelTA learnt from Lyudmila Yanovich, chief specialist of the Gomel oblast arts and crafts center. Partaking in the forum will be Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Bulgarians, Israelites, Moldavians, Germans, Poles, Russians, Tatars, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Gypsies, the specialist noted. Georgia and Tajikistan will...