Vitebsk should become the capital of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, State Secretary of the Union State Pavel Borodin said at a press conference that opened the Union State Day at the 17th international arts festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk on July 13. The Union State Day has been held at the festival since 2003 and became an integral part of the programme of the Slavonic forum. There is no wonder it became traditional– every year the Union State allocates about $1 million for...

A cooperation agreement between the Vitebsk oblast executive committee and the administration of the Moscow district of Saint Petersburg was signed in Vitebsk on July 13. The agreement is aimed at promoting the bilateral cooperation in the trade, economic, information, social and cultural areas, BelTA learnt from deputy chairman of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee Piotr Yuzhik. It is the first agreement between a region and an administrative territory of Saint Petersburg. Under the...

On July 11, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will pay a working visit to the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Head of State. Alexander Lukashenko is expected to take part in the opening of renovated maternity hospital N1 in Vitebsk. In the evening the Head of State will welcome the opening of the International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk.

The 17th International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will open on July 11. Taking part in the opening of the festival will be famous singers and bands from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, France, Israel, Egypt, Greece. Irina Dorofeeva, Piotr Elfimov, Anatoly Yarmolenko and his band Syabry, Pesnyary (Belarus), Josef Kobzon, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Dima Bilan, Oleg Gazmanov, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Nadezhda Kadysheva and her band Zolotoe Koltso, Nikolai Baskov, Maxim...

Deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State will take part in the 17th international festival of arts “Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk” and the Union State Day on July 13, BelTA was told in the PA press service. Belarusian and Russian deputies will present special prizes of the Parliamentary Assembly to best singers representing the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. The Union State prizes will be also presented to participants of the intentional juniour song...

The Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies allowed the two companies of the Belarusian state concern for production and selling of light industrial goods (Bellegprom) to delay the debt payments to the local budgets. These companies are the Vitebsk fur garment manufacturer and the open joint-stock company Krasny Oktyabr, deputy chief of the financial department of the administration in the Vitebsk oblast executive committee Boris Kichanovsky told BelTA. He explained, Decree No 282 of May 19, 2008...