The Belarusian customs service will get a preliminary notification about Russian transit cargoes. The decision was taken by a session of the Customs Committee of the Union State in Grodno on February 14, Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus (SCC) Alexander Shpilevsky told BelTA. He remarked, the procedure is already used by the Belarusian-Lithuanian border checkpoint Privalki (Grodno oblast). The customs service receives a preliminary notification about a Russian transit cargo,...

On February 15, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will take a working trip to the Vitebsk oblast of Belarus to get familiar with the work of industrial companies of the region. The head of state will pay a visit to RUP Vityas, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

The deadline for filing applications for the participation in the Slavonic Bazaar Festival qualifying rounds is February 15, BelTA was told in the arts department of the Culture Ministry of the Republic of Belarus. Pop singers having a previous concert and contest experience aged between 18 and 35 can apply for the participation in the qualifying round of the international song contest “Vitebsk-2008”. Singers having a previous concert and contest experience aged between 7 and 12 can...

The first public juridical reception rooms have been opened in the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from Valentina Rimkova, deputy head of the administrative department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. In Vitebsk and Polotsk the reception rooms are now open at the premises of law faculties of the Vitebsk and Polotsk state universities. Low-income citizens can get free legal aid there twice a week from senior students and their teachers. Applicants are mainly interested in resolving...

The first public juridical reception rooms have been opened in the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from Valentina Rimkova, deputy head of the administrative department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. In Vitebsk and Polotsk the reception rooms are now open at the premises of law faculties of the Vitebsk and Polotsk state universities. Low-income citizens can get free legal aid there twice a week from senior students and their teachers. Applicants are mainly interested in resolving...

Some 23 facilities will be auctioned in the Vitebsk oblast in H1 2008, BelTA learnt from Larisa Scheglova, the head of the auctions and tenders department of the Vitebsk oblast fund Vitebskoblimuschestvo. The facilities to be auctioned are incomplete constructions which are ready at 60% and which have not been used by their owners for more than two years. All the facilities are located in regional centres and villages. For example, 15 buildings will be auctioned in the former military...