GOMEL, 15 September (BelTA) – A two-day seminar dedicated to development of the local governments with the participation of Polish specialists opened in Gomel on 14 September, BelTA learnt from the Gomel branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The seminar is being held in line with the joint project of the Gomel branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Polish Association of Economic Experts “Pro-Academy” (Lodz) “Support for Development of...

MINSK, 11 September (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes it is vital to settle the issue of staff shortage in the majority of national healthcare institutions. The President made such remarks as he visited Minsk clinical hospital No. 6 on 11 September. “There are enough university graduates with medical qualifications in Minsk. Yet a great number of hospitals are shortstaffed. We should deal with the problem,” the head of state said. Today there are 8,000...

GOMEL, 10 September (BelTA) – Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ) plans to finish upgrading its continuous casting machine No 3 by the end of the year, representatives of the company’s technical department told BelTA. It is the largest investment project in the last two years. BMZ is implementing it together with the Italian company Danieli, which specializes in manufacturing and commissioning competitive metallurgical equipment. The Italian company signed the contract to supply equipment,...

GOMEL, 9 September (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast has signed cooperation agreements with 17 regions of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Boleslav Pirshtuk told reporters. According to Boleslav Pirshtuk, the Gomel oblast has been successfully developing economic cooperation with the South-West District of Moscow, the Moscow, Bryansk, Murmansk, Kaliningrad oblasts and the Republic of Tatarstan. For instance, Tatarian businessmen show their interest...

MINSK, 31 August (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will make a working trip to the Gomel region on 31 August, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service. The Belarusian head of state will get familiar with the social and economic development of the region. Special attention will be focused on the implementation of the social standards in the rural area as well as the development of the region’s tourist potential. БЕЛТА

GOMEL, 27 August (BelTA) – The Gomel-based agricultural machinery maker Gomselmash has started field tests of a semicrawler grain harvester Palesse GS812. The tests are going on in Russia’s Amur oblast and involve specialists of Gomselmash’s central design bureau for grain and fodder harvesting machinery, BelTA learnt from Igor Mitsuro, head of the agricultural machinery reliability department of the design bureau. Boasting off-road capability, the new harvester has been made for Amur...

VITEBSK, 27 August (BelTA) – Andrei Tolchikov from Gomel became the World’s Junior Champion in international draughts. The World Junior Championship ended in Vitebsk on 27 August. Daria Fedorovich from Minsk won silver in girls’ competition Andrei Tolchikov won six matches and ended two in a draw, and scored fourteen points to become the gold medalist. His main rivals Roel Boomspata and Pieter Steijlen from the Netherlands showed the equal points to become silver winners. It is...

GOMEL, 24 August (BelTA) – As of 24 August, around 309,000 hectares under grain and leguminous crops apart for maize (or 93.1% of the plan) have been already cropped in the Gomel oblast. It is the richest harvest for the recent 18 years, BelTA learnt from Valentin Bobok, head of the committee for agriculture and food of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. According to him, the previous record crop was harvested in 2008. Then, agricultural companies of the Gomel oblast harvested...

MINSK, 24 August (BelTA) – GomelAuto 2009 car exhibition will be held in the Athletics Palace in Gomel on 31 August – 6 September, Tatiana Kolesnikova, representative of the organizing company, told BelTA. Around 50 best models of automobiles from automobile salons and car dealers of Gomel and Minsk will be presented at the exhibition. Visitors will have a chance to see sedans, hatchbacks, offroadsters, commercial cars and specialized machines produced by Belarusian, Russian, French,...

GOMEL, 19 August (BelTA) – 215 crews from the agricultural companies of the Gomel oblast have threshed over 1,000 tonnes of grain each since the beginning of the harvest campaign, BelTA learnt from Nikolai Sadchenko, chairman of the oblast organisation of the Belarusian Trade Union of Agricultural Workers. For instance, the Lelchitsy, Narovlya and Loyev regions have reached this figure for the first time. According to Nikolai Sadchenko, that was achieved due to an increased number of...