MINSK, 13 October (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko gave his consent to appoint Anatoly Savenok director general of the Manufacturing Corporation “Belarusian Steel Works”, BelTA has learnt from the presidential press service. Anatoly Savenok held the post of deputy director general of the hardware production of the Belarusian Steel Works. “There are signs of recovery at the company,” Anatoly Savenok told reporters. BMZ is reaching last year’s indices in some...

Gomel, 9 October (BelTA) – Scottish scouts are expected to give several English lessons in the Gomel gymnasiums. Gomel students, in turn, will teach the Scottish speak Russian. The decision was taken in a meeting of Chairman of the Gomel town council Sergei Poroshin and the head of a group of scouts, member of the civil organization “Friends of Gomel” on 8 October. A delegation of scouts from Aberdeen, Scotland, is paying a visit to Gomel on 7 to 14 October. The guests are meeting with...

GOMEL, 9 October (BelTA) – Some 27 companies of the Gomel oblast have introduced the ISO 14000 environmental management standards, BelTA learnt from the economy department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The certification of the environmental management systems has been carried out by the biggest and the most up-to-date organizations of the region including the Mozyr Refinery, Gomelstroimaterialy, Gomelobldorstroi and others. At the same time, the environmental management...

GOMEL, 1 October (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast maintains trade, economic, sci-tech, cultural cooperation and twin-town relations with cities and regions from 19 countries, Vladimir Nadtochayev, deputy chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee, told a conference dedicated to the trans-frontier cooperation between Euro-regions. The Gomel oblast executive committee has signed 33 agreements with the administrative and territorial units from foreign countries; the town and regional...

GOMEL, 28 September (BelTA) – The CIS council of rectors of consumer cooperation universities stands for the integration into the world educational community. This initiative was announced by Rector of the Poltava Consumer Cooperation University (Ukraine) Aleksey Nestula and supported by his counterparts at the 11th session of CIS council of rectors of consumer cooperation universities which opened in Gomel on 28 September. According to experts, there is a need to reach the...

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – The Chinese corporation Dong Jin Group is implementing a project to grow table variety grapes in film-type unheated greenhouses in the Gomel oblast. The relevant agreement was reached at a meeting of the Heilongjiang province delegation with the Gomel oblast administration in Gomel on 25 September. According to Dong Jin Group, several thousand hectares of greenhouses in the Heilongjiang province are used to cultivate grapes, which can be used as food or used...

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – The demand for agro-ecotourism services in the Gomel oblast five times exceeds the supply, BelTA learnt from deputy head of the department for physical education, sports and tourism of the Gomel oblast executive committee Vadim Karmazin. In his words, the tourism development in the region has been gathering pace. Over the last three years there have been constructed 61 farmsteads in the oblast, 30 of them were built in 2009. At least twenty more tourism...

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – The Rumyantsevs-Paskevichs Palace in Gomel greeted its visitor No 1,000,000 on 22 September. A ticket with this number was bought by a Croatian couple of Kalinic and Elena Davors. The guests are the residents of the town of Ozalj. They are currently on vacation and are touring Elena’s native country. The millionth guests were awarded various gifts alongside a lifelong right for free visits of all future expositions at the palace. The Rumyantsevs-Paskevichs...

GOMEL, 25 September (BelTA) – Gomselmash and Chinese corporation Dong Jin Group will set up a joint company to assemble forage harvesters Palesse FS60. The relative agreement is supposed be signed during a visit of the Chinese delegation to Gomel at the end of this week, BelTA learnt in Gomselmash. The joint company will be placed in the Heilongjiang province. The work of the company will be organized taking into consideration the work of the joint assembly productions in Russia and...

GOMEL OBLAST, 14 September (BelTA) – According to the results of harvesting campaign 2009, some 370 crews of combine operators of the Gomel oblast harvested more than 1,000 tonnes of grain each for the first time, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Sadchenko, Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Trade Union Organization of Agro-Industrial Complex. In 2008, some 290 crews reached this level, in 2007 – 110 crews of combine operators. According to Nikolai Sadchenko, in 2009, the Gomel oblast harvested...