Business circles of Tver Oblast, the Russian Federation are interested in expanding cooperation with Belarusian companies, representative of the European Information Consultative Center of Tver Oblast Tatiana Lvova told media in Vitebsk, BelTA informs. According to Tatiana Lvova, the center is engaged in establishing contacts between Tver entrepreneurs and business circles of other Russian regions as well as foreign countries. “We are glad to have the possibility to present the...

Belarusian agrarians have already cropped over 6 million tonnes of grain, harvesting more than 72% of lands under crops, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 10 August, over 1.460 million tonnes of grain was harvested in Minsk Oblast, 1.243 million tonnes of grain was cropped in Brest Oblast. Grodno Oblast has so far harvested 1.080 million tonnes of grain. 883,500 and 824,500 tonnes have been cropped in Gomel and Mogilev Oblasts respectively. Vitebsk Oblast has...

Pitelino Municipal District (Ryazan Oblast, Russia) and Lepel District (Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus) gave a start to the bilateral social and economic cooperation, Irina Dervoyed, deputy chairperson for social affairs of the Liozno District Executive Committee, told BelTA.

International Chagall Readings that are due in Vitebsk on 25-26 July will gather researchers from five countries, Director of the Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk Irina Voronova told BelTA.

Vitebsk is gearing up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the wedding of Marc Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld. The first event has become the exhibition dedicated to the little-researched period in the life of the couple in New York. The event has opened at the Art Space in 7 Tolstogo Street of the Vitebsk Center of Contemporary Art, BelTA learned from director of the center Andrei Dukhovnikov. Lots of works have been written about the biography of the famous artist. However, not much is...

The Belarusian-Slovak Business Forum in Vitebsk opened with the signing of the agreements on cooperation between Vitebsk Oblast and the Slovak city of Kosice and also between Vitebsk District and the Slovak town of Holic, BelTA has learned. The memorandum of cooperation in culture, education, sports and tourism between Vitebsk Oblast and the city of Kosice was signed by Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Oleg Matskevich and member of the Kosice City Council Martin...