16.08.2012
MINSK, 16 August (BelTA) – The International Animated Film Festival Animayevka 2012 will take place in Mogilev on 10-15 September, BelTA learnt from the Mogilev company Kinovideoprokat.
Applications to participate in the forum have been received from 19 countries. The festival will welcome for the first time animation movies from Finland, China, Taiwan, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
Traditionally the program of the festival will include a contest of children’s drawings and arts and...
8.08.2012
MINSK, 8 August (BelTA) – An exhibition of the Art Zhyzhal international plein air in ceramics will open in Bobruisk on 8 August, BelTA learnt from the Mogilev oblast executive committee.
The expo will feature the works that have been created during the 10th international plein air in ceramics Art Zhyzhal at the Verbki recreation facility.
Twenty-five ceramists from eight countries, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Venezuela and Azerbaijan, started their work on 18...
26.07.2012
MINSK, 26 July (BelTA) - Some 809 polling stations have been arranged in Mogilev Oblast prior to the elections to the fifth convocation House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. Of them 37 have been set up in sanatoriums, preventative clinics, holiday houses, hospitals and other stationary medical and preventive treatment facilities. One is located in a military unit, BelTA learnt from the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee.
According to Head of the...
6.07.2012
MINSK, 6 July (BelTA) - Belarus will supply building materials to Venezuela, Minister of Architecture and Construction of Belarus Anatoly Nichkasov told reporters on 5 July.
We have compiled a schedule of deliveries of Belarusian construction materials that are in shortage in Venezuela. “Because of this shortage construction schedules are interrupted and production works are delayed. We have decided that it would be better if we started deliveries of a number of items such as windows,...
29.06.2012
MINSK, 29 June (BelTA) – Belarus should take measures to minimize inflation risks while raising the wage rate, Chairperson of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Nadezhda Yermakova told reporters on 29 June, BelTA has learnt.
Speaking about the impact of the planned wage rate increase on the inflation rate in Belarus, Nadezhda Yermakova said, “We have concerns about that, and it is natural, the amount of money in circulation will rise”. She emphasized that this money should be...
22.06.2012
MINSK, 22 June (BelTA) – Belarus has not been importing Venezuelan oil under any schemes from June 2012, First Deputy Premier of Belarus Vladimir Semashko told reporters on 22 June, BelTA has learnt.
“Oil supplies from Venezuela were a brotherly gesture to help our country out when we needed it,” Vladimir Semashko said.
Belarus benefited from the import of Venezuelan oil in 2010. Back then a strategic task was fulfilled. “If not for the oil imports from Venezuela in 2010-2012,...
15.06.2012
MINSK, 15 June (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has instructed top executives of the Interior Ministry to prepare proposals regarding the ministry’s reformation, the press service of the Belarusian leader told BelTA.
Appointing top executives of the Interior Ministry, Alexander Lukashenko said those were not regular appointments. “I didn’t say for no reason that we should reform the Interior Ministry. We should reform it without breaking it as it usually happened...
25.05.2012
MINSK, 25 May (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation took part in the investment forum VTB Capital RUSSIA CALLING: London Session that was held in London on 22-24 May, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.
The delegation included First Deputy Finance Minister of Belarus Vladimir Amarin, Deputy Economy Minister Dmitry Golukhov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank Taras Nadolny and First Deputy Chairman of the Office of the Council of Ministers...
25.05.2012
GRODNO, 25 May (BelTA) – The museum of the history of Jews opened in Belarus’ oldest synagogue in Grodno, BelTA has learnt.
The museum of the history of Jews in Grodno was created by a group of Grodno entrepreneurs “Museum at Troitskaya”. It contains exhibits of the Jewish history and culture. The museum visitors will be able to learn how the Jews lived in Grodno, what trades they were engaged in, starting from the 12th century to the present day. Part of the exhibits is CDs with...
18.05.2012
MINSK, 18 May (BelTA) – The 7th Belarusian International Media Forum, Partnership for the Sake of the Future: Models of the New Era, will take place on 28-31 May, BelTA learnt from the Information Ministry of Belarus.
The Belarusian international media forum is a traditional platform for discussions, exchange of opinions and new ideas between experts and media community of the CIS and non-CIS countries. This year the forum will highlight the most important issues connected with new...