The residents of the Gomel oblast earned Br2 billion during the nationwide voluntary clean-up day on April 19, BelTA was told in the economy committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. Some 50% of earnings are expected to be transferred to the state budget and the rest will be spent on buying special medical equipment for children's units, hospitals, policlinics and maternity welfare centre in the Gomel oblast. During the previous voluntary clean-up day, the south-eastern region of...

Around 580,000 people, including 120,000 Gomel residents, are expected to take part in the nationwide voluntary clean-up day in the Gomel oblast, BelTA was told in the economy committee of the oblast executive committee. Most of the volunteers will be busy cleaning gardens, parks, sidewalks and yards. For example, the officials of the administration of the Tsentralny district of Gomel will plant trees in the residential area Klenkovsky; specialists of the culture department and economy...

Belarus and Russia are developing cooperation in the phytosanitary and veterinary control field. A delegation of Russian sanitary services led by head of the Russian Federal Agency for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision Sergei Dankvert arrived in the Gomel oblast on April 17. The head of the Russian delegation told BelTA, sanitary services of the two countries should work out a common system for controlling products that are imported to Russia via the Belarusian-Polish border, in...

The youth organizations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine are studying the experience of student centres of the Gomel oblast of Belarus. Representatives of the Bryansk, Orel (Russia) and the Chernigov oblasts (Ukraine) have arrived in Gomel to take part in a round table to consider the issues relating to organization of the work of the government bodies and public associations with the youth of the Gomel oblast. The guests will also attend a contest of the student centres which promote...

Members of the Mozyr circus studio “Arena” won diplomas and a crown of the international youth festival Orpheus in Italy. As BelTA learnt from leader of the studio Maria Kuznetsova, the 1st youth carnival-festival Orpheus in Italy gathered more than a thousand artistes from 11 European countries. The final of the art competition was held in Venice. Winners of the competition were chosen in line with the following nominations: soloists, vocal groups, choreographic art, circus and...

The agricultural companies of the Gomel oblast were the first in Belarus to finish the spring crop sowing campaign, the chief of the main plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs, Grigory Romaniuk, told BelTA. According to him, the grain crops were sown on the area of 121,600 hectares. The sowing of other crops is underway in the region. Around 42.2% of spring crops has been sown in the oblast. This is quite a high index in the country. The grain crop sowing...

The Gomel Theater of Drama has been invited to participate in the international festival of theater arts Noah’s Ark which will be held in Smolensk /the Russian Federation/ in June. As BelTA learnt from deputy director of the Gomel Theater of Drama Sergei Gulchin, the possibility of participation in the festival was discussed during a session of officials of the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and the culture department of the Smolensk oblast. In turn...

Within the next few years the Belarusian oil refineries will complete upgrade programmes to increase the oil refining level to more than 90%, the deputy chairman of the Belneftekhim concern, Vladimir Volkov, said at the international practical conference “Oil and petrochemical industry of the Republic of Belarus; prospects of international cooperation” in Minsk. According to him, the development programmes of the Belarusian oil refiners are designed by 2010 and are aimed at boosting the...

The international assembly of capitals and big cities has summed up the results of the 1st contest The Best CIS City. Taking part in the contest were 60 cities of the CIS member states. Gomel was recognized best in terms of implementation of innovation technologies and preservation of cultural-historical heritage, BelTA learnt from Deputy Chairman of the Gomel City Council Sergei Luzai. At the final round of the contest held in Moscow Gomel presented the materials about to the municipal...

In January-March 2008, production corporation Gomselmash exported products at the amount of $88.2 million or 7.5 times up over the same period last year, BelTA learnt from director of the marketing centre of the company Vladimir Frolov. According to him, the plan of supplies for April shows that this month the company will surpass the same figure for the whole 2007 which made up $98 million. The Russian Federation, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are the main trade partners of Gomselmash. The...