GOMEL, April 17 (BelTA) – A Week of the French Movie will be held in Gomel on April 21-26. The week will be organized under the auspices of the French Embassy in Belarus. The event is held twice a year, BelTA learnt from the Gomelkinovideoprokat company. During the week, the movies in French with subtitles will be demonstrated in Gomel movie theater “Oktyabr”. The organization of such events is the main part of the large-scale programme of the friendly relations established between...

GOMEL, April 15 (BelTA) – Mechanical engineering company Tatelectromash (Naberezhnyye Chelny) has assembled the first five grain harvesters Palesse GS812 using Gomselmash assembly sets. They were assembled using manufacturing plans provided by Gomselmash, Vasily Kozlov, Deputy Director of Gomselmash’s Russia Sales Department, told BelTA. In his words, at the beginning of the next week a team of Gomselmash specialists will be dispatched to Tatarstan to examine the correctness of the...

GOMEL, April 14 (BelTA) – A Belorusneft team launched exploration well drilling No 1 Geologicheskaya at one of the most promising deposits in Belarus, BelTA learnt from the Belorusneft press service. The drilling is operated by highly-experienced specialists of the Svetlogorsk drilling department. The target well depth will total 5060 metres. In late 2008, a new oil field named Geologicheskaya was discovered in the Gomel oblast, at the border of the Svetlogorsk and Rechitsa regions....

MINSK, April 10 (BelTA) – Despite the global economic crisis the Svetlogorsk-based Khimvolokno has developed seven new markets: Portugal, Slovenia, Macedonia and others, the company told BelTA. In view of a slowdown in the sales at the Russian market, the company has diversified its exports. “Since October 2008 we have found seven new markets,” the company experts said. The geography of the company’s deliveries covers now more than 30 states. In March 2009, the company took part in...

GOMEL, April 9 (BelTA) – The Chernobyl Readings 2009 International Conference will take place in the Gomel Scientific and Practical Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology on April 16-17. Nearly 200 scientists and professional physicians are expected to attend the forum, BelTA learnt from Vasilina Yevseyenko, head of the international department of the centre. The programme of the forum provides a plenary session and various sections. Medical aspects of the Chernobyl power plant...

GOMEL, April 7 (BelTA) – Young Belarusian singers won 16 various awards at the International Transcarpathian Edelweiss 2009 Festival-Contest which has been held in Ukraine, BelTA learnt from the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. Taking part in the festival were more than 200 young singers and bands from six countries – Belarus, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Belarus was represented by 27 students of art centres and music colleges of...

GOMEL, March 31 (BelTA) – On April 1-2, specialists of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble will give lessons about the history of the Belarus-Russia Union State “Belarus and Russia. Friendship and Unity” at some educational establishments of Gomel, BelTA learnt from Nadezhda Bragina, head of the education and public relations department of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble. The specialists of the Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble got an idea to tell about the history of creation and...

GOMEL, March 25 (BelTA) – International scientific conference “Christian humanism and its traditions in Slavonic culture” timed to the 200 anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol will be held in Gomel on March 26, BelTA learnt from Ivan Afanasiev, head of the Russian and world literature department of the Frantsysk Skaryna Gomel State University. The conference has been organized by the Frantsysk Skaryna Gomel State University, the Society of Cyril of Turov and the Gomel Slavonic...

GOMEL, March 24 (BelTA) – Some 50 Gomselmash combine harvesters are expected to be assembled in Tatarstan in 2009, BelTA learnt from Vasily Kozlov, deputy director of the sales department of Gomselmash. The Belarusian combine harvesters will be assembled at the Tatelectromash Company (Naberezhnye Chelny). A full set of component parts to assemble Palesse GS812 combine harvesters has been already supplied to Naberezhnye Chelny. According to the signed agreement, the first machines will be...

GOMEL, March 23 (BelTA) – Some agricultural companies of the Gomel oblast started the spring crops sowing campaign on March 19, BelTA learnt from head of the plant growing department of the agriculture and food committee of the oblast executive committee Mikhail Kolesnikov. The first 100 hectares were sown in the Kalinkovichi and Bragin regions on March 19. In the near two or three days all southern regions of the oblast will start the sowing campaign. It will take ten working days to...