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MINSK, 6 April (BelTA) – Belarus has signed contracts worth more than $100 million to supply dairy products to China, Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats told the media on 6 April, BelTA has learned. “We have signed contracts worth over $100 million on dairy supplies. Two meat processing plants, Veles-Meat and Mogilev meat-packing plant, have been certified for meat supplies, and the first batch of meat has already been delivered to China,” Leonid Zayats said. In...

Professional critics named Medea. Episodes, a punk opera by Teatro Di Capua (St Petersburg), the Event of the Forum at the International Youth Theater Festival M.@rt.contact, BelTA learned from the Mogilev Oblast Drama Theater. The editorial staff of the forum did not come to one opinion. They announced the main and special programs and named art the highlight of the forum, which gave an opportunity to watch unforgettable shows. The audience voted for the best show of the festival via...

MINSK, 20 March (BelTA) – Measures to implement the presidential ordinances on entrepreneurship development and employment assistance will be discussed during an offsite session of the Presidium of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus in Mogilev on 28 March, the press service of the upper chamber of the parliament told BelTA. The session will be chaired by Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich....

MOGILEV, 14 March (BelTA) – Roll balers PR-F-110 made by the Belarusian mechanical engineering company Bobruiskagromash have been successfully tested in Egypt, representatives of the company told BelTA. The Belarusian balers had to deal with rice straw in the form of tape-like stalks up to 70cm in length with 10-15% moisture content. The fact that Belarusian MTZ tractors are widely used in Egypt helped a lot. The balers were attached to the tractors in order to test performance in idle...

MOGILEV, 3 March (BelTA) – The Austrian holding company Kronospan will invest over €10 million in expanding the production of metal structures in the free economic zone (FEZ) Mogilev in 2018, Kronospan representatives told BelTA. IOOO Kronospan OSB is a resident company in FEZ Mogilev. It specializes in making oriented strand boards for civil engineering and furniture industry. The available free space will be used to build two shops to make metal structures and cargo containers. They...

MOGILEV, 22 February (BelTA) – Mogilev Oblast and Sweden intend to advance economic cooperation. The relevant statement was made as Mogilev Oblast Governor Vladimir Domanevsky met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden to Belarus Christina Johannesson on 21 February, BelTA has learned. According to Vladimir Domanevsky, while cooperation between Sweden and Mogilev Oblast in humanitarian affairs is vibrant, the level of trade and investment cooperation falls below the...

MINSK, 8 February (BelTA) – The Orders of Mother have been conferred on 58 women from Vitebsk Oblast, Gomel Oblast, Grodno Oblast, and Mogilev Oblast for giving birth to and bringing up five and more children. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko signed corresponding Decree No. 57 on 6 February, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. Among the awardees are gardener of Tolochin Canning Factory Anna Gerasimova, worker of the center of creativity for children and...

MOGILEV, 1 February (BelTA) – The serial production of Belarusian-Chinese 25-tonne mobile cranes ZMC-25 has been started in Mogilev. The first special vehicles have already been sold to Russia, BelTA learned from Zoomlion-MAZ Director Yuri Pivovarov. The Belarusian-Chinese joint venture was busy developing and certifying new models throughout last year. The mobile crane ZMC-25 was assembled in Mogilev as a prototype model and went on display in Minsk and Moscow. After filling the order...

MOGILEV, 24 January (BelTA) – The Mogilev Oblast Police Department has worked out a rather effective mechanism for cooperation with Russian Federation law enforcement agencies, BelTA learned from Mogilev Oblast Police Department Chief Alexander Kovalchuk on 23 January. According to the source, traditionally close cooperation has evolved between the Mogilev Oblast Police Department and the police departments in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast and Bryansk Oblast. Joint conferences are held as...

MINSK, 18 January (BelTA) – Belarusian agricultural enterprises of all types (state-run agricultural enterprises, private farming enterprises, and personal subsidiary economies) turned out Br18.2 billion worth of agricultural products in 2017, up 4.1% from 2016 in comparable prices, BelTA learned from the National Statistics Committee of Belarus. The top contributor is Minsk Oblast (23.8% of the country's agricultural output). It is followed by Brest Oblast (18.7%), Gomel Oblast (16.8%),...