VITEBSK, 19 July (BelTA) – The International Junior Song Contest Vitebsk has turned into a big rival of the International Contest of Pop Singers Vitebsk, Director of the cultural center Vitebsk and the International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk Rodion Bass told BelTA. “It has become as spectacular and popular as the adult contest,” Rodion Bass said. He added that a gala concert of the junior song contest might be held at the major stage of the Slavonic Bazaar festival –...

VITEBSK, 18 July (BelTA) – The closing ceremony of the 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk will be held on 18 July, BelTA has learnt. The star-studded closing ceremony will feature Alsou, Nadezhda Babkina and the Russian Song folk band, Alexander Marshal, Nyusha, Soso Pavliashvili, Viktoria Aleshko, Inna Afanasieva, Irina Dorofeyeva, Alexander Tikhanovich and Yadviga Poplavskaya, Chisty Golos band, Litesound, Nikolai Gnatyuk, Potap and Nastya. The closing ceremony...

MINSK, 17 July (BelTA) – The international youth camp Be-La-Rus will be held in Vitebsk Oblast on 26-29 July, the press service of the BRSM Youth Union told BelTA. This year the international youth camp will bring together 650 young people. Its major theme will be cinema. “Guests and participants of the camp will be able to learn more about cinema, try their hand at movie-making, shoot a movie about the camp, attend master classes in movie-making,” the BRSM Youth Union informed....

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota believes that there is no need to set up a coordination council to manage integration in the post-Soviet space. He made this statement at a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July, BelTA has learnt. Grigory Rapota mentioned integration projects, like the CIS, EurAsEC, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, GUAM, and CSTO. “There are many of them. Countries that became independent and started looking for their place...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July that he is in favor of a radical solution of the Union State property issue, BelTA has learnt. “The problem is long-running and complicated. There are 10 draft decisions that need to be signed and adopted. Two of them have already been passed, the third will be discussed at the session of the Union State Council of Ministers,” he said. “We need to adopt a radical...

VITEBSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The session of the Union State Council of Ministers that will be held in Minsk on 18 July will discuss concepts of four new programs, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told a press conference in Vitebsk on 15 July, BelTA has learnt. Grigory Rapota informed that one of them deals with agriculture. He said that the agenda of the session is structured into three parts. The first block is organizational. The second one deals with trade and economic...