Oxford students use distance learning to study the discipline “Information Technologies in the Republic of Belarus”. The courses are led by Mikhail Borisevich, head of the Computer Education Department of the Vitebsk State Veterinary Medicine Academy, assistant professor, Candidate of Physics and Maths, corresponding member of the Belarusian Engineering Academy, full member of Oxford University. Mikhail Borisevich explained, Belarusian professors employ Internet technologies to offer...

Best mothers from all regions of the Vitebsk oblast have gathered in Vitebsk on October 12 for an official ceremony of presenting the prize of Hero of the Soviet Union Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko. This year’s prize winners are twenty-seven women, BelTA has been told in the labour, employment and social security department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. The mothers have been invited to attend the honouring ceremony together with their husbands and children. The event is...

Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast are the first to complete winter crops sowing campaign. This year winter crops occupy 188,000 hectares which is 1.5% more than the target, BelTA learnt in the plant cultivation department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. By September 26 Mogilev oblast is expected to finish the sowing campaign. On the whole, Belarus is to complete winter crops sowing by September 30. Winter crops occupy a total of 1,243,000 hectares or 89.5%...

The Miory region of Vitebsk oblast will host the oblast festival of national cultures on September 29, BelTA learnt in the Miory regional executive committee. The festival will gather together over 300 representatives of various nationalities (Russians, Ukrainians, Polish, Jews, Gypsies, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tadjiks, Letts and Uzbeks) from 15 regions of Vitebsk oblast as well as from Orhsha, Polotsk and Vitebsk. They will make performances, organize exhibitions of national arts and...

Agricultural companies of Vitebsk oblast are the first to complete winter crops sowing campaign. This year winter crops occupy 188,000 hectares which is 1.5% more than the target, BelTA learnt in the plant cultivation department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus. By September 26 Mogilev oblast is expected to finish the sowing campaign. On the whole, Belarus is to complete winter crops sowing by September 30. Winter crops occupy a total of 1,243,000 hectares or 89.5%...

Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic is opening a kind of a branch — a philharmonic hall in agro-town Novyye Goryany in the Polotsk region. It will be the 14th philharmonic hall Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic is opening as part of the State Village Revival and Development Programme, Deputy Director of Vitebsk Oblast Philharmonic Anna Olekhnovich told BelTA. Community centres in agro-towns have a well-developed infrastructure. Today it is technically easy to arrange concerts of the philharmonic in the...