GOMEL, May 12 (BelTA) – The Information and Education Centre “State Russian Museum: Virtual Branch” will open in the Uritskaya secondary school on the base of the information technologies and resources centre of the educational department of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee on May 21, BelTA learnt from head of the centre Irina Morozova. The project of the State Russian State Museum is widely known all over the world. The museum has already set up its virtual branches in a...

GOMEL, May 11 (BelTA) – More than 100 investment projects will be presented at the Gomel Economic Forum which will be held on May 21, BelTA learnt from Elvira Karnitskaya, head of the economy department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. Potential investors will be able to get familiar with the potential of the region in such areas as industry, agriculture, trade, tourism, housing and communal economy. A list of the real estate and land parcels for sale will be presented for those...

GOMEL, April 27 (BelTA) – Land under White Wings Grand-Prix went to the participants from Belarus, Latvia and Romania, BelTA learnt from Chief Executive of the festival Irina Mironycheva. Mozyr played a host to the 6th International Youth Festival Land under White Wings. The festival was founded in 1998. The festival bases on the idea of reviving the lands suffered from the Chernobyl disaster. This year the festival has gathered nearly 500 children from 11 countries. Partaking in the...

GOMEL, April 22 (BelTA) – Belarus’ first Internet-portal of regional mass media (www.gomelsmi.by) has been created in the Gomel oblast. It was developed by specialists of the ideology department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and the Belarusian News Agency (BelTA), BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The new Internet resource contains the information about all regional state-run and private periodicals, radio stations and TV studios of...

GOMEL, April 22 (BelTA) – Organizers of the Gomel Economic Forum have invited more than 50 businessmen – natives of Belarus to participate in the gathering. The forum will be held in Gomel on May 21, BelTA learnt from the economy department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. According to the organizers, the businessmen – the Belarusian natives who lived abroad may become real partners of the promising investment projects which will be proposed at the forum. The invitations...

GOMEL, April 21 (BelTA) – The Economic Forum 2009 will take place in Gomel on May 21. Its organizers are planning to present over 60 investment projects, BelTA learnt from the economy committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. According to the specialists, all the regions of the oblast and different companies will display their investment proposals for implementation in various areas of the national economy. Among them are the plans to set up a transport-logistics centre at the...

MINSK, April 20 (BelTA) – The corporization of Gomselmash has been rescheduled from 2009 to 2011, Lyudmila Belousova, Head of the State Property Department of the Belarusian Industry Ministry, said at the international conference “Privatisation and market liberalisation in Belarus” on April 17. Gomselmash has been removed from the list of companies to be incorporated this year. BelAZ, Integral, Vityas and others are still on the list. Mainly machine-tool producers of the Industry...

GOMEL, April 19 (BelTA) – The Gomel oblast fund of social security of military men and their families put forward an initiative to hold a military-patriotic campaign “Meeting of Generations”, BelTA learnt from the deputy chairman of the fund, Stanislav Pashevich. Veterans will be invited to visit colleges and universities of Gomel. The goal of the campaign is to organize meetings between participants of the Great Patriotic War with students, Stanislav Pashevich said. Among the veterans...

MINSK, April 20 (BelTA) – The final of the second national amateur ice hockey tournament for the Prizes of the President’s Sports Club took place in the Minsk Palace of Sports on April 19. The team of the Gomel oblast defeated the team of the President of Belarus, last year’s winner, 9-8 (4-3, 2-2, 3-3) to take the title. The best scorers were forwards Mikhail Klimin from the Gomel oblast and Andrei Astashevich from the President’s team (3 goals each). The goalkeeper Dmitry...

GOMEL, April 17 (BelTA) – In January-March 2009, the Dobrush Porcelain-Making Plant produced products at the amount of Br8.5 billion. The export to the Russian Federation increased by 11% as against the same period last year, BelTA learnt from Oksana Galoganova, head of the marketing and sales department of the plant. The export to Russia makes more than 90% of all the foreign supplies of the plant. “At the same time, it does not mean that we do not expand cooperation with customers...