The international artistic gymnastics tournament in honour of Olympic champion Tamara Lazakovich was opened in Vitebsk on December 2, BelTA learnt from the physical culture, sport and tourism department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. Participating in the tournament will be sportsmen from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and Uzbekistan. The age of the participants is 12 and older. The tournament will include combined events and also balance beam , uneven bars, vault and floor...

The international festival of modern choreography has finished in Vitebsk, BelTA learnt in the Vitebsk Cultural Centre. The Moscow Boroditskiy Dennis Dance Company /B.D.D.C/ has won the Grand Prix of the contest. Ballet troupe “Zrelost” of the Minsk Theater of Modern Choreography and the Hangzhou Theater of Opera and Ballet /China/ were awarded the 1st prize of the festival. The Diana Yurchenko Theater-Studio of Modern Choreography /Vitebsk/ and the TAD Modern Choreography Company...

Athletes from Belarus, Russia Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia and the USA will take part in the Open Slavonic Games for the Prizes of Many-Time World and European Champion, Honoured Master of Sport of Belarus Dmitry Polyarush, BelTA learnt from the physical culture, sport and tourism department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. Competing in the trampoline gymnastics competition will be 150 athletes in individual and synchronized events. The tournament will be held in the...

The joint research in the area of pancreatic surgery will be launched by Vitebsk State Medical University and the A.V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery (Moscow). The partnership agreement between the university and the federal scientific institution has been signed in Vitebsk on November 26, BelTA has learnt. According to Doctor of Medicine, Professor of the Moscow institute, chief research worker Vyacheslav Yegorov, the Russian scientists got interested in the research carried out by the...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko thinks it necessary to liberalize all the areas of human life, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting with the Vitebsk oblast officials on November 25, BelTA has learnt. We should make people feel free, liberalize our life. It is crucial in a difficult situation. When serious economic problems emerged, as was the case of the mid 1990s and the 1998 default in Russia, the decisions were taken to make economic relations more...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes it is necessary to work harder introducing economic management methods, encouraging the inflow of investments, reducing expenses and prime costs of products, expanding the market for selling products and services. Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at a session involving Vitebsk oblast top government officials on November 25. Alexander Lukashenko underscored, reaching all the goals outlined by the five-year development plan is the key...