VITEBSK, 28 July (BelTA) – Vitebsk will play host to the art festival for visually impaired people Light Your Star on 29 July, BelTA learned from the Belarusian association of visually impaired people BelTIZ. Partaking in the festival will be 14 soloists and Stolitsa creative company of BelTIZ. All of them were winners of the festival marathon. Apart from BelTIZ amateur artists, partaking in the festival will be Irina Dorofeyeva, Iskui Abalyan, Piotr Yelfimov, Alexander Solodukha and many...

VITEBSK, 26 July (BelTA) - Smugglers have once again tried to use coal gondolas to move Belarusian cigarettes abroad. The attempt to smuggle 19,500 packs of cigarettes from the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Latvia was foiled by the Polotsk border patrol, BelTA learnt from Denis Glebko, the chief of the press service of the Polotsk border patrol. During the search of a freight train at the Bigosovo railway station (Verkhnedvinsk District) the border patrol agents found 39 boxes of...

VITEBSK, 26 July (BelTA) – Novopolotsk choir Zvonkie Golosa (Ringing Voices) has won five gold medals at two prestigious international competitions that were held in Austria’s Graz on 10-17 July, BelTA learnt from head of the choir Albert Kozhushkevich. Four gold meals were awarded in the nominations Church Music and Homogeneous Youth Choirs at the 1st World Choir Championships for Youth and Young Adults. The Novopolotsk choir was so impressive that it was invited to take part in...

VITEBSK, 22 July (BelTA) – The international camp Be-La-Rus will open near the Mound of Friendship in Verkhnedvinsk District, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus on 28 July, representatives of the oblast committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union (BRSM) told BelTA. The 20th gathering of young Belarusians, Latvians and Russians will be dedicated to the Year of Russian Cosmonautics, the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s launch to outer space, and the 20th anniversary of the Russian Youth...

VITEBSK, 21 July (BelTA) – The number of small enterprises in Vitebsk Oblast increased by almost 10% from July 2010 to about 8,200, BelTA learnt from the press center of the Regional Inspectorate of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties. As of 1 July, there were more than 35,700 small enterprises, including about 27,600 self-employed businessmen. Number of self-employed businessmen decreased by approximately 6% compared with July 2010. In January-June this year this category of taxpayers paid...

VITEBSK, 22 July (BelTA) – Extreme recreation in forsaken villages is now available in Lepel District of Belarus, BelTA learned from Nonna Sevzdina, the organizer of the project and director of the Lepel organizational and instructional center. The project is in essence a Belarusian version of the reality show Survivor full of Daniel Defoe’s romanticism. Five young families have been left in a hard-to-reach village, which only resident is an elderly dacha amateur, who spends summer...