MOGILEV, 24 August (BelTA) – Belarus’ Bobruisk will host the World Pankration Championships on 1-4 November, BelTA has learned. The tournament at Bobruisk Arena will gather representatives of 30 countries, including Australia and Qatar. The competitions will feature about 70 medal events among men and women in different age and weight categories. The competition program is divided into four groups: full contact, athlima, or light contact, polydamas and palesmata. This year every team...

MINSK, 26 July (BelTA) - Belarusian agrarians have cropped the first million tonnes of grain, BelTA learnt from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 25 July, Belarus harvested 367,800 hectares planted to cereal and leguminous crops, which is 17.2% of the sown area. The country harvested more than 1 million tonnes of grain already, with the average yield of 29.2 centners per hectare. This year the harvest campaign kicked off earlier than in 2017. As of 25 July 2017, Belarusian agrarians...

MINSK, 16 July (BelTA) – The harvest season has started in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 16 July, an estimated 124,600 hectares planted with cereals and leguminous crops were harvested, which is 5.9% of the sown area. This year’s harvest season arrived in Belarus earlier than in the previous year. Brest Oblast is currently leading having cropped 20.9% (68,700 hectares) of its planted areas. Grodno Oblast harvested 7.5% of the areas...

MINSK, 5 July (BelTA) – The Order of Mother has been conferred on 64 women from Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast and Mogilev Oblast for giving birth to and bringing up five and more children. A corresponding decree was signed by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. Among the awardees are women working in agriculture, social security system, trade, culture, education, healthcare, manufacturing, as well as homekeepers....

MOGILEV, 21 June (BelTA) – The Mogilev-based producer of confectionery and bakery products Domochay intends to start selling deep-frozen confectionery and bakery products to the European Union in H2 2018, the company’s Director General Natalya Podlesnykh told BelTA. The company’s CEO said: “We’ve done a lot of work to reach this promising and capacious market. It was quite hard considering the toughest kind of competition. Suffice it to say that the negotiations took about four...

MOGILEV, 5 June (BelTA) - The Ukrainian Cultural Days will be held at the Kupala Night Festival (Alexandria Gathers Friends) in the agro-town of Alexandria, Shklov District, on 8 July, Mogilev Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Kuntsevich told a press conference dedicated to the festival, one of the major cultural events of this summer in Belarus, BelTA has learned. “A big concert program featuring popular musicians, artists and groups from Ukraine will be one of the draws of the festival this...

MOGILEV, 22 May (BelTA) - The Chinese Corporation SUMEC intends to invest in the flax industry in Mogilev Oblast. Such an agreement was reached during a meeting between Chairman of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Domanevsky and SUMEC Corporation delegation led by Wu Weifeng, Assistant General Manager of SUMEC Textile, BelTA has learned. SUMEC Corporation is interested in the development of raw-materials base, increasing the production of flax fiber in Mogilev Oblast and its...

SOCHI, 14 May (BelTA) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Mogilev in the autumn, the host city of the forum of regions of Russia and Belarus, during a meeting in Sochi on 14 May, BelTA has learned. “We have scheduled a Supreme State Council session. Before the elections (presidential elections in Russia – note by BelTA) we decided to hold it in Minsk. In the autumn we have the forum of regions in Mogilev. Usually we hold this forum...

MOGILEV, 7 May (BelTA) – Foreign trade between Mogilev Oblast and the USA rose by 20% in January-March 2018. The information was released by Mogilev Oblast Governor Vladimir Domanevsky as he met with U.S. Charge d’affaires to Belarus Robert Riley on 4 May, BelTA has learned. The Mogilev Oblast governor attributed the invigoration of the mutual relations primarily to efforts taken in 2016-2018 to advance interregional cooperation. Mogilev Oblast delegations visited several cities and...

SLAVGOROD DISTRICT, 27 April (BelTA) - The state will never leave Chernobyl-affected areas to face the Chernobyl consequences, Chairman of the Council of the Republic Mikhail Myasnikovich said during a commemorative meeting in the the Alley of Memory of Abandoned Villages of Slavgorod District, BelTA learned. Mikhail Myasnikovich recalled that the Chernobyl accident affected 2 million people directly. But one way or another the tragedy was felt across the whole country. “We have been...