GOMEL, 5 February (BelTA) - New caterpillar fodder harvesters designed by Gomselmash' central design office specializing in grain and fodder harvesters will help Amur Oblast to develop dairy farming, Deputy Premier of Amur Oblast Vladislav Bakumenko told BelTA in Gomel on 5 February. Vladislav Bakumenko leads the Amur Oblast delegation that is on an official visit to Gomel Oblast. At present ...

GOMEL, 3 February (BelTA) - The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft has started taking seismic measurements in Russia's Western Siberia, the company's press service told BelTA. The work is part of the contract signed with the Russian company Geoseis Technology. The Russian company is part of the holding company Geoseis and performs geological prospecting, geophysical and geochemical resea...

GOMEL, 22 January (BelTA) - The chambers of commerce and industry of Gomel Oblast and Bryansk Oblast of Russia intend to develop cooperation in part of organizing exhibitions and fairs, and bolster ties in innovation activities and business education, President of the Bryansk Oblast Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tatiana Suvorova told BelTA in Gomel on 22 January. ?We would like to...

GOMEL, 16 January (BelTA) - The Belarusian public prosecution service will give the legal evaluation of some contracts that Belarusian companies have signed with foreign suppliers of equipment. The information was released by Prosecutor General of Belarus Alexander Konyuk in Dobrush on 16 January. The official was in Gomel Oblast on a working trip to get familiar with the state of affair...

GOMEL, 11 January (BelTA) ? The industrial group Belorusneft plans to extract 1.65 million tonnes of oil in 2014 or as much as it did in 2013, the company?s press service told BelTA. Oil extraction in Belarus peaked in 1976 and has been falling ever since. Specialists believe that it will be possible to stop the trend brought about by the reduction of the extractable resources and the r...

GOMEL, 10 January (BelTA) ? The Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI) will hold 24 fairs of consumer goods in Gomel Oblast in 2014, BelTA learnt from the BelCCI Gomel Office. The largest fairs will take place in Gomel, Rogachev, Svetlogorsk, Rechitsa, Mozyr, and Zhlobin. In particular, Gomel will host the international fair Spring in Gomel for the 15th...

GOMEL, 24 December (BelTA) ? The industrial group Belorusneft intends to raise the extraction of oil and gas condensate from its assets in Russia by 50% within three years, the press service of Belorusneft told BelTA. By 2017 the extraction of these hydrocarbons in Western Siberia is supposed to be at least 200,000 tonnes per annum while the company extracted 128,000 tonnes in 2013. The...

At present three refueling stations of the company already use the solar energy.

The development of small and medium business is not a goal by itself for the government.

CHISINAU, 26 November (BelTA) -Belarus and Moldova have agreed to step up bilateral trade and economic cooperation and increase mutual deliveries of products. The agreement was reached during the Belarusian-Moldovan business forum in Chisinau on 26 November, BelTA learned. The forum was attended by representatives of the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry a...

GOMEL, 3 March (BelTA) – The number of citizens, who crossed the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in February 2014, is about 27% lower than the number registered in February 2013, BelTA learned from Igor Moroz, Chief of the Gomel Border Group, at the government session held by the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee on 3 March. The number of vehicles that crossed the border in February went down, ...

GOMEL OBLAST, 26 February (BelTA) – The Armed Forces of Belarus have a full-fledged and smoothly operating battalion of air defense missile systems Tor-M2, BelTA learned from Belarusian Defense Minister Yuri Zhadobin. During a tactical exercise involving units of the 120th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Western Tactical Command of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense in Gomel Oblast on ...

MINSK, 14 February (BelTA) - People's Artist of Belarus, winner of the State Prize of Belarus Gavriil Vashchenko died aged 86. The memorial service will be held at the Arts Palace center in Minsk on 15 February, BelTA learned from the Vashchenko Art Gallery. Gavriil Vashchenko was born on 20 June 1928 in the village of Chkalovichi, Bragin District, Gomel Oblast. Gavriil Vashchenko made a huge cont...

GOMEL, 13 February (BelTA) - Cooperation between scientists and specialists of Belarus and Japan in matters concerning radiation safety after emergencies at nuclear power plants will soon reach a higher level, BelTA learned from Nikolai Vasilkov, Head of the Healthcare Office of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. In Hiroshima the city's university and the Belarusian national science to pra...

GOMEL, 4 February (BelTA) - Since taking part in elections to municipal councils of deputies is the primary task for the Belarusian national public association Belaya Rus it is possible that the association's candidates will be represented in most of the election constituencies. The information was released by Belaya Rus Deputy Chairman Alexander Shatko. He took part in a seminar held for the...

GOMEL, 23 January (BelTA) - The number of Indian medical students studying in Belarus might be increased up to 1,000, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Manoj Kumar Bharti told BelTA on 23 January. The Indian diplomat is currently on a visit to Gomel. Ways to increase the number of Indian medical students in Belarus had been thoroughly discussed with heads of Bel...

GOMEL, 15 January (BelTA) - A water museum is to be established in Mozyr District in the Year of Hospitality, BelTA learnt from the department for ideology, culture and youth affairs of the Mozyr District Executive Committee. The museum will open in the environmental studies center in the village of Kozenki. The museum will feature several thematic expositions, like water as the basi...

OMEL, 10 January (BelTA) - The unauthorized polling of voters before or during the voting is nothing but a poor advertising or propaganda trick. The statement was made by Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Lidia Yermoshina in Gomel on 10 January, BelTA has learned. According to Lidia Yermoshina, since such measurements lack control, the polling is done amateurishly and ...

MINSK, 9 January (BelTA) ? Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko issued a decree to present For Spiritual Revival 2013 prizes to distinguished Belarusians in recognition of their humanitarian efforts, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader. The prize has been presented to Bishop Sofrony of Mogilev and Mstislavl in recognition of his significant contribution to...

GOMEL, 19 December (BelTA) - A contract to receive a grant of the Japanese government was signed in Gomel on 19 December, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The document was signed by Head of the Gomel Regional Teaching Hospital for Disabled War Veterans Oleg Ivantsov and Charge d?Affaires of Japan in Belarus Shigehiro Mimori. The document prov...