MOGILEV, 26 May (BelTA) – The German company Interregional Energy Company GmbH will build three solar power plants and a biogas complex in Kostyukovichi District, BelTA learned from representatives of the Economy Committee of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee. Belarus and the German company have signed two investment contracts worth a total of Br85 billion. These projects provide for building three photovoltaic power plants with the total output capacity of 4.5MW (1.5MW each) and a...

MOGILEV, 19 May (BelTA) – Over 200 tractors of the Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units will be assembled by a joint company in Serbia in 2016-2017, BelTA learnt from the company. “The joint tractor assemble plant set up at the basis of Belarus-Agropanonka in Serbia two years ago has been gradually strengthening its positions on the domestic market and sells Bobruisk machinery to the neighboring countries of the Balkan peninsula. Over 70 tractors have already been sold. In the...

MINSK, 11 May (BelTA) – Mogilev will play host to a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Belarus-Russia Union State on 12 May, BelTA learned from spokesman for the Belarusian Prime Minister Vladislav Sychevich. The meeting will be attended by Russia and Belarus Prime Ministers Dmitry Medvedev and Andrei Kobyakov. The agenda of the meeting includes 27 issues. The main block is about trade and economic cooperation. The meeting will discuss the action plan to establish additional...

MINSK, 3 May (BelTA) – The Bobruisk Plant of Tractor Parts and Units plans to increase its supplies to Russia’s Yakutia, BelTA learnt from the Industry Ministry of Belarus. “The Belarusian company launched its cooperation with Yakutia in 2015 when it shipped seven vehicles to the region. This year the Bobruisk plant has already delivered eight tractors to Yakutia. Ten more are to be shipped in the near future,” representatives of the ministry said. Not long ago a delegation from...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) - The terms and conditions of Russian gas supply to Belarus may be discussed on the sidelines of the session of the Council of Ministers of the Belarus-Russia Union State in Mogilev on 12 May, State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota told media after a meeting with Belarusian Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov on 26 April, BelTA has learned. “Gas supply issues are discussed separately, not in the framework of the Union State. Most likely this topic will be...

MINSK, 20 April (BelTA) - Pope Francis has met with Chernobyl clean-up workers from Belarus and Ukraine, BelTA learned from the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus. “Out of 50 clean-up workers, eight people arrived in the Vatican from Belarus together with Metropolitan of Minsk and Mogilev, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz,” the representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus said. Pope Francis welcomed the pilgrims from Ukraine and Belarus who arrived to the Vatican within the...

MOGILEV, 12 April (BelTA) – The Interbasket 2016 open tournament among teams of sister and partner cities will take place in Mogilev on 12-15 April, BelTA learnt from the Mogilev Department of Education, Sport and Tourism. Partaking in the competitions will be teams from Mogilev, Vologda, Zvenigorod, Smolensk and Penza. Basketball players (born in 2001 and later) will compete for the main trophy of the tournament and also take part in a contest of foul shots and three-pointers. The...

MINSK, 6 April (BelTA) – A meeting of the Union State Council of Ministers will take place in Mogilev on 12 May, BelTA learnt from the website of the Union State Permanent Committee. “Members of the Council of Ministers of the Union State will hold their meeting in the Belarusian city of Mogilev on 12 May,” the information on the website reads. BELARUSIAN NEWS

MOGILEV, 30 March (BelTA) – Mogilev Oblast’s first IT business incubator is supposed to be created in the oblast capital by the end of the year, BelTA learned from Viktor Krasovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Economy Committee of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee, on 30 March. The Mogilev Development Agency is in charge of implementing the project. The agency is now looking for suitable premises. The business incubator project is supposed to attract companies specializing in electronic...

MOGILEV, 23 March (BelTA) – Belarus’ Mogilev Oblast and Russia’s Orel Oblast are interested in deepening industrial cooperation, Chairman of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Domanevsky said as he met with a delegation of Orel Oblast headed by Governor Vadim Potomsky, BelTA has learned. The parties commended the traditionally friendly Belarusian-Russian relations, the willingness to cooperate on the basis of equality, long-term partnership and mutual benefit. The meeting...