On March 25 Vitebsk will host the international exhibition Energy Saving Technologies, Equipment, Materials. Taking part in the forum will be producers and experts from Russia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Germany and Ukraine, BelTA learnt in the Vitebsk Oblast Marketing Centre. Within the framework of the exhibition round table “Rational House” will be organized. Representatives of foreign companies, experts, scientists of Belarusian universities were invited to take part in the session. Its...

Belarusian agricultural companies have prepared 66,700 hectares of land for spring sowing works, or 2.85% of the plan. As of the same day last year only 21,000 hectares were prepared, or 1% of the plan, BelTA was told in the main crop-growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs. The Brest oblast has prepared around 10% of the areas to be sown with crops, Gomel – 2.9%, Grodno – 2.6%, Minsk around 1%, Mogilev – 1% as well. the Vitebsk oblast is just getting down to...

The Vitebsk oblast will put up 132 idle municipal objects for auction in 2008, BelTA learnt from Larisa Scheglova, the head of the department on auctions and contests of the Vitebsk oblast territorial fund Vitebskoblimuschestvo. The immovable property list included objects which have been unused for a long time or used inefficiently. Alongside the immovable property the auctions will provide a tenant right for the land ploys these objects occupy in line with Decree #667. The document...

In 2007, the exports of Vitebsk-based Belwest to Latvia amounted to $3 million, up 50% over the past three years. The deliveries to that country are handled by a representative office of the company in Latvia and several Latvian dealers, BelTA was told in the Belarusian embassy to Latvia. Belarusian footwear has taken its market niche in Latvia. Belwest has developed a network of chain stores and won its customer base. “The sales have been growing and we can say that we have found our...

This year Vitebsk oblast hospital will get the region’s first heart-lung apparatus, the chief doctor of the Vitebsk oblast clinical hospital, Viktor Ovchinnikov, told BelTA. The device will allow conduct surgeries on open heart, Viktor Ovchinnikov said. The purchase of the equipment is envisaged in the programme aimed at developing the regional cardio-centres and will be financed by the national budget. Viktor Ovchinnikov noted that Vitebsk doctors regularly perform closed heart...

The Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee and the Smolensk Oblast Administration have signed an agreement on trade and economic, scientific-technical and cultural cooperation and also a protocol of intent in the sphere of agro-industrial complex development, BelTA learnt in the Belarusian Embassy in the Russian Federation. To implement the joint investment projects aimed at producing the competitive agricultural products, the border regions of Belarus and Russia intend to share the seeds of...