MOGILEV, March 20 (BelTA) – On March 23, Mogilev will host the open national contest of young musicians dedicated to famous Belarusian composer Josef Zhinovich, BelTA learnt from Anatoly Kireichenko, director of the Mogilev State Music College. Taking part in the contest will be 189 students of music schools and colleges from all over Belarus, Russia and Lithuania. Within five days, they will demonstrate their mastership on the three stages of Mogilev: the stage of the Mogilev State Music...

MOGILEV, February 27 (BelTA) – Belarus’ Equestrian Cup will start in Mogilev on February 28, BelTA learnt from Inessa Shvedova, deputy director of the of the Mogilev oblast horseracing and modern pentathlon centre. Taking part in the competitions will be around 30 strongest equestrians from all the regions of Belarus and Minsk including Olympic champions Vyacheslav Poito (Minsk), Elena Telepushkina (Mogilev) and Alexander Glushakov, a World Cup 2008 winner. The Equestrian Cup has...

MOGILEV, February 26 (BelTA) – Youth Acrobatics Tournament “Kinder-Surprise” opened in Mogilev on February 26, BelTA learnt from the physical, sport and tourism department of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee. Taking part in the tournament are athletes aged 6-15 years old from Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania. The programme of the tournament meets the international rules and it includes jumps, performances of boys, girls, mixed pairs, group exercises. At the tournament, the Mogilev...

MOGILEV, February 19 (BelTA) – Mogilev will become the next town on the “Dove of Peace” route. It will arrive in the oblast centre from Tula (the Russian Federation) on March 4, BelTA learnt from the ideology department of the Mogilev town council. A live-size golden dove carrying an olive branch was sculptured by German artist Richard Hillinger in late 2008 for the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights adopted that the third session of the UN General Assembly. The...

MINSK, February 18 (BelTA) – The M.art.contact international youth theater forum will take place in Mogilev on March 22-27, BelTA has learnt from Andrey Novikov, director of Mogilev Drama Theater. Invitations to participate in the fourth theatre forum have been sent to ten creative teams from five countries – Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and, for the first time, Kazakhstan. During a week eleven performances casting over 200 actors will be staged at the Mogilev theatre. The theatre...

MOGILEV, February 17 (BelTA) – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is making a tour of the Babushkina Krynka dairy in Mogilev, BelTA reports. The head of state will get familiar with the economic and social development of the company, its performance in the modern-day financial-economic conditions, the course of technological upgrade and also development prospects, production of new goods, competitiveness of products and the efforts to expand sales markets. Alexander Lukashenko will...

MOGILEV, February 12 (BelTA) – On February 13-14, Mogilev will host the Belarus Athletics Championships for the prizes of the Sportivnaya Panorama Newspaper, BelTA learnt from Anastasia Marinina, press seceratry of the Belarusian Athletics Federation. Best female athlete 2008 Oksana Menkova and best coach 2008 Valery Vorontsov will be honoured during a ceremony in the Olimpiets Sports Centre of Mogilev On February 13. The best athletes of Belarus will take part in the championships:...

MOGILEV, February 11 (BelTA) – Eighteen families from Mogilev, whose family members were killed during the Afghan war, were awarded with the Medal “20th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan”. The award ceremony was held in the Mogilev City Hall on February 11, BelTA learnt. During the ceremony, first deputy chairman of the Mogilev City Council Oleg Litenkov noted that though many years have passed since the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan,...

Some 38 Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces will be showcased in the Mogilev branch of the Belarus National Museum of Arts – the Byalynitsky-Birulya Museum on April 25, BelTA learnt from Irina Skvortsova, head of the research and educational department of the Belarus National Museum of Arts. According to her, Mogilev will become the first regional centre of Belarus which will host the exhibition of Picasso’s ceramics from the stocks of the Belarus National Museum of Arts. The dishes, plates,...

In 2008, Mogilevliftmash exported products at the amount of almost $147 million, or 30% up as against 2007, BelTA learnt in the company. The Mogilev-based company increased the export of elevators of various modifications and spare parts for them to the CIS countries. The share of the export to the Russian Federation reached 75%. Mogilevliftmash has set up a wide dealer network in Russia (50 dealer centres in various regions). In 2008, Mogilevliftmash produced 8824 elevators of various...