The government is selling its share in open joint-stock company Krasny Oktyabr to limited liability company Marko. The purchase contract will be signed by July 15, Marko's Director General Nikolai Martynov told BelTA. In order to stabilise the financial and economic performance of OAO Krasny Oktyabr the head of state signed decree No 324 on June 13, which envisages selling the state share (83.64% or 6,024,867 shares) in Krasny Oktyabr. The state share has the nominal value of over Br180.7...

Over Br11 billion was utilized in the Vitebsk oblast to implement the demographic security programme, Mikhail Leschinsky, the chairman of the committee for labour, employment and social protection of the oblast executive committee, stated at a session of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee on June 12. The programme enabled the oblast to complete the reconstruction of the Orsha maternity home, open a cardiosurgery department in the oblast hospital. Some 19 ambulance stations in the rural...

Scientists of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine supported an idea to set up the trans-border tourist route From the Varangians To the Greeks. They expressed their opinion towards the route during the research conference From the Varangians To the Greeks: historical-cultural transit via Belarus. Traditions and Prospects which opened in Polotsk on May 30. Alexander Lokotko, a corresponding member of the Belarus National Academy of Sciences, the director of the Institute of Art History, Ethnography...

Russia’s famous singer Alla Pugacheva will partake in the opening ceremony of the 17th international arts festival “Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk”, First Deputy Culture Minister of Belarus Vladimir Rylatko told BelTA. The cast of the opening gala on July 11 will be really star-studded. The cast includes Nikolai Baskov, Nedezhda Kadysheva and her group Zolotoye Koltso, Tamara Gvertsiteli, Iosif Kobson, Maksim Galkin, Laima Vaikule and also the participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008...

A plan of joint events on trade and economic, sci-tech and humanitarian-cultural cooperation between the Vitebsk and Smolensk oblasts for 2008 was signed by Vladimir Andreichenko, the Chairman of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee, and Sergei Antufiyev, the Governor of the Smolensk oblast, on May 23. The Smolensk oblast is an old partner of the Vitebsk oblast and a place for advancing the products of Vitebsk producers to the other regions of Russia. The plan of joint events will help...

The Belneftekhim concern will submit the proposals on selling stakes in Naftan refinery and Polymir company to the government by the end of the year, deputy chairman of the Belneftekhim concern Mikhail Osipenko told reporters on May 20. According to him, Belneftekhim is considering selling the blocks of shares of these companies in package. “This year we will prepare Naftan and polymer for the merger and will offer them for investors as one single economic entity,” Mikhail Osipenko...