The first tickets for the 25th International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk 2016 will go on sale in February, BelTA learned from director of the forum Alexander Sidorenko. "The year of culture which has been announced in Belarus will be eventful in Vitebsk. It will begin with the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Vitebsk Culture Center in January. It is expected to include a big concert, an exhibition of all departments of the center. We started the preparations for...

For the New Year season travel agencies in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk intend to welcome considerably more guests from Russia than they did last year, BelTA learned from Larisa Petrovskaya, Director of the travel agency Ilva, during a press conference. The Ilva travel agency is one of the leaders in Vitebsk Oblast's hospitality business and organizes tours all over Belarus primarily for Russians. The number of tourists in Vitebsk, including during the New Year celebration, has...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko held a government conference on 18 December to discuss the state and prospects of development of Belarus' raw materials base. Alexander Lukashenko gave instructions to fully examine promising areas in the country for possible new oil deposits, BelTA has learned. The Orsha depression in Vitebsk Oblast and the Podlaska-Brest depression in Brest Oblast and Grodno Oblast will be surveyed. These territories are understudied for now. Specialists should...

A declaration of intent was signed by the Belarusian Education Ministry and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk on 15 December, BelTA has learned. In line with the declaration the sides intend to expand the pilot project that will allow school students in Vitebsk Oblast, Gomel Oblast, and Mogilev Oblast to take DSD-1 exams. It is the kind of exams that school students outside Germany take for the sake of confirming their mastery of German. The project began in 2008 as an...

Marc Chagall's museums in Vitebsk, Belarus and Nice, France intend to promote closer cooperation. The mutual interest in expanding the contacts was expressed when representatives of the French museum visited Vitebsk on 3 December, BelTA learned from Irina Voronova, Director of the Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk. Anne Dopffer, Director of the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice, and the museum's curator Blanche Grinbaum-Salgas arrived in Belarus to discuss the organization of an...

Vitebsk State Technological University hopes to join the Association of Universities for Textiles AUTEX, head of the department of textile material technologies at Vitebsk State Technological University Dmitry Ryklin told media during the international conference "New Technique and Technology in the Textile and Light Industry" on 25 November, BelTA informs. Earlier Vitebsk State Technological University signed an agreement on cooperation with France's Haute-Alsace University. Professor...