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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...

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...