Vitebsk Oblast has received a grant under Germany’s Federal Government program to support Belarus for rural tourism development, BelTA learnt from coordinator of the project “Development of rural tourism as one of the main areas for sustainable development in Vitebsk Oblast”, adviser at the Johannes Rau International Center for Education and Exchange in Minsk Oleg Kravchuk. “In summer 2014 the public council for rural tourism development in Vitebsk Oblast jointly with the public...

The State Border Committee of Belarus will launch a web resource to cover the relay race that will go along the borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The relay race is timed to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The web resource will become operational as part of the website of the Belarusian border service on 3 February, the press service of the Polotsk border unit told BelTA. The relay race began simultaneously in the Belarusian city of Brest...

Postavymebel has shipped to Kazakhstan a sample of innovative products, a modern Erismann school desk, in order to promote it through the distributor and participation in the procurement tender, BelTA learnt from director of the company Sergei Zemchenok. Kazakhstan’s company Uchkollektor, a long-standing partner of the Postavy company, will present the product at the contest since Kazakhstan’s education system is served through procurement orders. “We have won local tenders...

A recreation area with the associated infrastructure will be developed in Braslav, BelTA learnt from Deputy Chairman for Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities in the Braslav District Executive Committee Andrei Davydenko. Improvement of the technical capability of green zones in recreation areas has been chosen as one of the four priorities of the Local Environmental Action Plan (LEAP) under the STREAM program adopted at the meeting of the district executive committee and the...

The construction of sports facilities is ongoing in Vitebsk Oblast, deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Terentyev said after the ceremony to open the Vitebsk Regional Olympic Training Center of Martial Arts in the Vitebsk neighborhood Zhurzhevo, BelTA has learned. "The construction of new sports facilities never stops. This year we opened the big ice arena in Orsha. A multifunctional complex with a swimming pool was put into operation in Dokshitsy last...

In the current situation on the financial and foreign currency markets Belarus will not restrain the import of goods, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said as he heard out a report of Aide to the Belarusian President for Vitebsk Oblast Nikolai Sherstnev and Aide to the Belarusian President for Grodno Oblast Vladimir Domanevsky on 22 December, BelTA learned from the presidential press service. First of all, the head of state touched upon the situation in the Belarusian economy...