Alexey Zhigalkovich will present Belarus at the International Junior Eurovision Song Contest scheduled for December 8, 2007 in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Alexey’s song S Druzyami (With Friends) took 67 points and left far behind the second contender Nikita Zhurovich. Unanimously all the regions except Vitebsk oblast gave the young singer 12 points. The jury supported the winner, though, as jury chairman, People’s Artist of Belarus Vasily Rainchik confessed, “it was not a simple...

On May 3-5 Vitebsk will play host to the oblast-wide festival of youth art ‘Student Spring’, the chief of the youth policy department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee, Valeriy Kunashko, told BelTA. According to him, the 18th forum will bring together university teams from Vitebsk and Polotsk and also from Moscow and Velikie Luki of the Pskov oblast. The teams will showcase their skills in the contest titled ‘Believe in Your Dream…’ and also a KVN (Club of the cheerful...

The Vitebsk-based republican unitary company Vityaz will present the up-to-date medical equipment at the IT-forum Tibo 2007 which has opened in Minsk today, BelTA has been informed in the company. According to specialists, one of the novelties will be the electro-puncture therapy set  “Vityaz”. It is designed for surface electro-stimulation of human’s active points by electric current. The up-to-date technologies of the present days are based on the ancient oriental art to treat...

The community of the Braslav district, Vitebsk oblast, calls upon Lithuania to do its utmost to remove highly active nuclear waste from the Ignalina nuclear power plant and send it for processing. The statement is part of the protocol compiled after public hearings on nuclear waste disposal in the Braslav district, BelTA learnt from Romuald Zhmurnya, chairman of the Braslav District Council of Deputies. Besides, the general public believes it is necessary for Belarus and Lithuania to...

The Vitebsk Oblast Council of Deputies has adjusted the change of the oblast’s border with the adjacent territory of Latvia. The oblast’s Braslav district is supposed to relinquish two land plots with the total area of 0.28 hectares to Latvia in return for one land plot of the same size, which will make part of the Braslav Lakes National Nature Reserve. BelTA learnt from Vladimir Shalypin, head of the Vitebsk Oblast Land Management and Geodesy Service, the deputies had considered...

The Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry is calculating the extent of damage the national economy and environment received owing to the diesel fuel leak at the Unecha-Ventspils pipeline in the Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk oblast. The statement was made by Vladimir Savchenko, head of the ministry’s special inspection for the control over the utilisation and protection of lands, plants, forests and landscapes. Speaking about oil-polluted lands, Vladimir...