MINSK, 1 July (BelTA) – Belarus will be the venue for the 3rd International Tournament of Young Mathematicians for the first time. Partaking in the forum will be teams from Germany, Russia, France, and Belarus. The opening ceremony took place in the Belarusian State University on 1 July, BelTA has learned. Deputy Education Minister of Belarus Kazimir Farino took part in the opening ceremony. The tournament will last for seven days. The participants will show their mathematic, research and...

MINSK, 29 June (BelTA) – Belarus will pay off its debt for the electricity imported from Russia, Economy Minister Nikolai Snopkov told a press conference on 29 June. “Any self-respecting state pays off its debts. We will pay for the electricity we have imported,” the minister said. When asked whether Belarus will continue importing electricity, Nikolai Snopkov said that this will depend on the price for the electricity which is produced domestically and the electricity which can be...

MINSK, 27 June (BelTA) – The Council of Ministers approved a draft loan agreement between the Export-Import Bank of China, ICBC Bank and the Belarusian Government represented by the Finance Ministry to implement an investment project, Construction of a Bleached Sulfate Plant at the Svetlogorsk Cardboard Mill as basis for holding further negotiations. The decision was laid down at Resolution No 809 of 21 June 2011 of the Council of Ministers, BelTA has learnt. The Council of Ministers also...

IVATSEVICHI, 27 June (BelTA) – The dollar rate will remain intact in the near future, Belarus Premier Mikhail Myasnikovich said as he met with the labor collective of the Ivatsevichdrev company on 24 June. In his words, the current exchange rate fluctuates between Br4,500 and Br5,500 per $1. Mikhail Myasnikovich stressed that the dollar exchange rate would remain at this level if “we do not provoke it by emission lending to the economy: housing, farms and roads”. “It is impossible...

GOMEL, 24 June (BelTA) – The Torch Relay “The Run of Friendship" will arrive in Belarus on 25 June, BelTA learnt from the Ministry of Sport and Tourism. In 2011, The Run of Friendship (international name World Harmony Run) will be held locally in 70 countries. Belarus will make part of the relay which connects Europe and Asia. The relay kicked off in May in Vienna. On 25 June an international team of runners will cross the Belarusian-Ukrainian border checkpoint Veselovka in Gomel...

GOMEL, 24 June (BelTA) - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill will take part in the Slavonic Unity 2011 International Festival on 25 June, BelTA learned from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The Patriarch is expected to partake in the official opening of the festival. He will also talk to the guests of the forum and meet with heads of the border regions. Partaking in the festival will be official delegations of border regions of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine....

MINSK, 24 June (BelTA) – Discontent with economic, political, social processes gives no right to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, said Head of the Belarus President Administration Vladimir Makei at a plenary session of the Belarusian International Media Forum, Partnership in the Name of the Future: Patriotism, Spirituality, and Unification. Vladimir Makei stressed that Belarus fulfills its international obligations and plays an active part in the fight with...

BREST, 23 June (BelTA) – The people of the post Soviet countries should not let others rewrite the WWII history, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian reporters, participants of the press tour in Belarus, at the Brest Hero Fortress memorial on 22 June. One of the journalists asked the Belarusian leader what the Great Patriotic War and its memory means to him. “Our Great Victory is our great heritage, i.e. of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, the whole Soviet Union, Soviet people,...

GOMEL, 22 June (BelTA) – The universities of the European Union which participate in the Tempus program “The Improvement and Development of Professional Education” will meet in Gomel on 23 June to discuss the results of the program. Partaking in the final meeting will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Belarus Michel Raineri and Counselor for Cooperation and Culture of the Embassy Ludovic Royer, BelTA learned from the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University....

GOMEL, 22 June (BelTA) – The feedback from labor collectives contributes to improving the quality of Belarusian laws, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko said during his working trip to Gomel Oblast on 22 June. The speaker toured agricultural and manufacturing enterprises of the region. He visited the agricultural company Brilevo (Gomel District), the Gomel-based radio-making plant and the Starting Engines Plant. Vladimir...