GOMEL, 17 May (BelTA) – Over 200 representatives of official delegations from 21 countries will take part in the 8th Gomel Economic Forum that will take place on 20 May, Deputy Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Boleslav Pirshtuk told a press conference on 16 May. Among regular participants of the forum will be businessmen from Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy and Iran. Among the new ones will be businessmen from Vietnam. Following the established tradition representatives of...

GOMEL, 17 May (BelTA) – The major regional exhibition in Belarus, Spring in Gomel, will take place on 18-21 May, BelTA learnt from the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The exhibition has been held for twelve years already. This year more than 200 companies from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, and other countries exhibit their production. The exhibition pavilion will cover 3,000 square meters including more than 1,000 square meters for display booths. Among...

GOMEL, 14 May (BelTA) – The Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace has prepared a big cultural program for the Museum Night event, BelTA learnt from this cultural institution. The Museum Night will begin at 20h00 on 14 May and will continue until 2 am in the morning. The program includes numerous concerts, performances, exhibitions, tours, workshops, historic reconstructions and a charity auction. A historical reconstruction of the events of World War II and the Middle Ages “A Military Camp”...

MINSK, 13 May (BelTA) - Five projects of Belarusian public organizations were named winners of the contest by the World Bank Social Development Fund in 2011. These organizations will receive grants from $8,000 to $9,500 to implement their ideas, BelTA learned from the World Bank Office in Belarus. Among the winners is the Gomel regional public association of disabled persons with musculoskeletal system disabilities. It submitted the project “Towards a barrier-free environment" and...

SHKLOV DISTRICT, 12 May (BelTA) – The situation on the foreign currency market of Belarus will be resolved in 1-2 months, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko vowed as he visited the Belarusian company Alexandriyskoye in Shklov District on 12 May. “Yes, it is a bit difficult today. But we’ll get over it. We will calmly forget all the foreign currency troubles in 1-2 months,” said the head of state. In his words, Belarus will follow its own way from now on. “We’ve been...

MINSK, 11 May (BelTA) – The Belarusian company Seismotekhnika has shipped five vibration sources SV-30/120M to the Turkmen state corporation Turkmengeologia, representatives of the manufacturing corporation Belorusneft told BelTA. BelTA has been told it was the second batch of machines sent by Belorusneft’s mechanical engineering enterprise to Turkmenistan. The delivery was part of the contract the sides signed in 2009. Seismotekhnika has contracted to deliver a total of 20 machines....

MINSK, 11 May (BelTA) – International financial organizations will be invited to assess and analyze the system used to manage Belarus’ gross external debt and to determine future areas of its improvement. The measure is envisaged by the concept for managing Belarus’ gross external debt, the press service of the Belarusian government told BelTA. The action plan includes eight parts. Among other things the document provides for preparing an analytical note that will evaluate the state of...

KYIV, 10 May (BelTA) – Gomel Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast of Ukraine will intensify their cooperation in culture. The relevant agreement has been signed between the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and chief directorate for culture, tourism, and cultural heritage protection of the Chernihiv Oblast State Administration, BelTA learnt from the press service of the administration. According to the document, the sides are set to organize traditional annual cultural...

ZASLAVL, 10 May (BelTA) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has urged private business to show more vigor as he visited the Coswick company in Zaslavl on 10 May, BelTA has learnt. Alexander Lukashenko suggested that the head of the foreign company should consider a possibility to set up a similar production facility in any other place of Belarus. The President underlined that the state is ready to participate in the process. At the same time, the President demanded more efforts from...

GOMEL, 6 May (BelTA) – The region’s two largest international expos will take place in Gomel on 18-21 May 2011, the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA. The 12th international universal fair Spring in Gomel will take place in the oblast capital. Its theme has no restrictions and allows presenting the entire range of manufacturing and technical products as well as consumer goods. It is one of the most representative forums held in oblast capitals of Belarus....