Vitebsk Oblast plans to implement six social housing projects with gratuitous China's assistance, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Belous told the media, BelTA has learned. Belarus and China signed an agreement on the implementation of social housing projects involving technical and economic assistance of the People's Republic of China. "China will allocate Belarus approximately $110 million for the construction of social housing in different regions....

MINSK, 18 August (BelTA) – A team of long-term observers from the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly arrived in Minsk on 17 August, reads a post on the website of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (CIS IPA), BelTA has learned. A meeting was held with the Chairperson of the Belarusian Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina. The observers informed the CEC about the process of forming the team and its long-term and short-term observation plans. Lidia Yermoshina, on her part,...

VITEBSK, 10 August (BelTA) – Belarus’ Vitebsk Oblast and Bryansk Oblast of Russia will set up a joint working group to promote cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting of governor Nikolai Sherstnev and Alexander Bogomaz, BelTA has learned. The visit of the Bryansk Oblast Governor and a delegation (about 30 people) is not accidental, Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Nikolai Sherstnev noted when talking to the media. “We have had meetings, exchanged...

As many as 75 observers have been accredited with the election commissions of Vitebsk Oblast to monitor the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus of the sixth convocation, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk Oblast election commission. As of 25 July 2016, six of the accredited observers were registered with the territorial commission and the remaining 69 with district election commissions. An overwhelming majority of them – 70 people – represent...

Belarus' Alexei Gross has won the Grand Prix of Vitebsk 2016 song contest at the 25th international festival of arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk. , BelTA informs. The first award went to Adam from Kazakhstan. The second award – to Eleonora Vecchio from Italy and Anna Odobescu from Moldova. The third award – to Andrea Gvelesiani from Georgia and Anna Timofei from Israel. A special award of the Belarusian President Slavonic Hope went to the singer from Czechia. The Vladimir Mulyavin...

A factory to produce marbled meat may be set up in Lepel District (Vitebsk Oblast), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Slovakia to Belarus Jozef Migas told reporters on the sidelines of the Belarusian-Slovak Business Forum Innovations – The Path Towards Successful Integration. "I visited Lepel District, and examined the sites which the Belarusian side offers to us for setting up an agricultural enterprise. There is good infrastructure, very good conditions:...