In January-April, Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) increased the output of steel 9.9% over the same period last year to 825.7 thousand tonnes, Anatoly Volkov, the chief of the BMZ planning-economic analysis department told BelTA. Over the four months BMZ made 676.2 thousand tonnes of rolled steel, 13% up over the same period 2007, 103 thousand tonnes of hardware, 12.6% up. In January-April, the works made almost 14 thousand tonnes of seamless hot-rolled pipes. Under the period in...

Representatives of nine countries will take part in the 5th Gomel investment forum on May 22-23, BelTA learnt from the economy committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. Taking part in the forum will be delegations of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Austria. This year’s investment forum will be the most representative in its history. Attending it will be almost 200 chief executives and officials of companies and enterprises, financial...

The Gomel oblast will take part in the international march in the Kursk oblast on May 4-8. A six-member delegation including front-line soldiers, leaders of youth organizations and soldiers-internationalists will join the event to mark the 65th anniversary of the battle of Kursk. The idea to organize the march appeared eight years ago, BelTA learnt from Timofei Glushakov, the chairman of the Gomel oblast department of the Belarusian world foundation. The first march was initiated by the...

The contemporary paining of Chinese students will be displayed in Gavriil Vaschenko Picture Gallery in Gomel. The presentation of the exposition will take place on May 7 under the auspices of the embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Belarus. The exhibition will last till June 15. The works of art reflect traditional and new trends of the Chinese decorative art BelTA learnt from the gallery. For the young Chinese artists these are the first significant works. The...

The Gomel oblast sowed 225 thousand hectares of spring fields, 70% of the plan, BelTA learnt from Mikhail Kolesnikov, the head of the plant cultivation intensification department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. It has been earlier informed that the regional agricultural companies were first to complete the early crop sowing in the country and today the major sowing campaign is in the potato and corn fields. As for early May 2, the oblast sowed seven thousand hectares of potato...

The Gomel oblast will start celebrating May Day holiday with an honouring of the winners among the oblast towns, regions, organizations, establishments and sole traders who showed the best indices in 2007, BelTA learnt from the main ideology department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. The competitions were held in 48 nominations that covered all areas of the activity. The best regions became the Svetlogorsk, Zhitkovichi, Lelchitsy regions. The best industrial organizations were the...

In 2008, the Gomel oblast budget will allocate nearly Br8 billion for the reconstruction and construction of greeneries in the Gomel, Svetlogorsk, Rechitsa, Mozyr and Rogachev regions. The region cultivates a large amount of vegetables but the major problem is the products storing off-season, BelTA learnt from Valentin Babok, the chairman of the agriculture and foodstuffs committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. The oblast falls short of up-to-date storages equipped with the...

Revenues of the Gomel oblast budget gained over Br500 billion in January-March 2008, 40% up on the same period of last year. The data was voiced by head of the financial department Tamara Sushkina at a session of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee on April 28. In her words, the revenue part of the budget is being fulfilled in quite an optimistic way. “We managed to increase the planned revenues by Br113.6 billion,” said Tamara Sushkina. The data indicates good performance of the oblast...

The international research conference “Chernobyl readings” will be held in the Gomel National Research Centre of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology on April 24-25. The traditional forum which is annually held in Gomel will gather more than 150 scientists from various countries, director of the centre Alexander Rozhko told BelTA. The annual conference dedicated to the Chernobyl accident discusses the most important medical aspects of accident’s consequences. Specialists exchange the...

The Belarusian Trade and Economic University of Consumer Cooperatives will host the 1st international spring forum “Innovation technologies in business-education” which will be held in Gomel on April 23. About 150 participants from all over the world are expected to take part in the forum. First pro-rector of the university Svetlana Deshchenia told BelTA that during the 2 days of the forum the university will demonstrate a model of business-education which has been used here for five...