VITEBSK, 22 May (BelTA) – Official delegations of 16 partner towns of Polotsk will take part in the celebration of the 1150th anniversary of the oldest town in Belarus, representatives of the Ideology Department of the Polotsk Town Executive Committee told BelTA.
The number includes towns in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Germany. The list of Polotsk’s partner towns will grow larger during the celebration. An agreement on cooperation in economy and culture is...
VITEBSK, 17 May (BelTA) – Belarusian and Latvian travel agencies should consider the possibility of working together on the tourism market, BelTA learned from Grigory Pomerantsev, Chairman of the Board of the Riga Tourism Development Bureau.
A fact-finding tour around Vitebsk Oblast has been arranged for Latvian travel agencies. The group includes representatives of Latvia’s top ten travel agencies that organize tourism import and representatives of two transport operators. Expressing...
VITEBSK, 15 May (BelTA) - More than 4,400 citizens of Latvia, residents of frontier regions, have been granted small-scale border traffic permits, the deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Oleg Matskevich told a news briefing.
In accordance with the agreement between the Governments of Belarus and Latvia on small-scale border traffic as of 23 August 2010, on 1 February this year the consular authorities began accepting documents for small-scale border traffic permits....