Archive - Feb 2008

Belarusian athletes can win at least five medals at the forthcoming Olympic Games-2008 in Beijing, believes Anatoly Baduyev, the chief coach of the Belarusian national team.

At a working session in the Ministry of Sport and Tourism on February 26, Anatoly Baduyev informed that 69 Belarusian athletes have won Olympic licenses....

The 9th Vilnius book fair opened in Lithuania on February 21. It features 250 participants from six countries – Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Great Britain and Italy.

Belarus takes part in the fair every year. The Belarusian exposition “Printed editions of the Republic of Belarus” represents different publications by 20 book...

The state programme on prevention of suicides for 2008-2012 has been introduced before Belarus’ Government, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Kosinets told reporters on February 22.

According to him, the government “does not support some provisions of the programme as they have a declarative character”. So, the government has...

Over the last three years, Belarus has abolished 12 taxes, five of them in 2008, First Deputy Minister for Taxes and Duties of Belarus Vladimir Poluyan told reporters in Minsk on February 20.

According to him, over the period under review, the ministry has significantly simplified ecological tax, brought changes...

Belarus and Estonia intend to intensify cooperation in customs affairs. A statement to this effect was made at consultations between representatives of customs agencies of the two states, which took place on 13-15 February in Estonia, Alexander Ostrovsky, Consul General of Belarus in Tallinn, told BelTA.
A delegation of the State...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko addressed the soldiers-internationalists, veterans of the Afghan war on the occasion of the Remembrance Day.
“The bitter grief for the fallen is always there in our hearts. Hundreds of Belarusians never returned home from Afghanistan. We bow our heads before the blessed memory of our countrymen...

The State Property Committee has published another reference book “Towns and Villages of Belarus” dedicated to the Mogilev oblast. The edition numbers 1,600 copies, Chief of the Office of Cartography and GIS of the State Property Committee Valery Tsigankov told BelTA.

The reference book is about Belarusian toponymy. It includes six...

In 2007, the forestry companies of the Mogilev production forestry association exported products worth of $23.8 million, or 47.4% up over 2006, deputy general director oft eh association Nikolai Domnenkov told BelTA.

Exports accounted for 65% of the sales (55% in 2006). The best results were posted by the Osipovichi experimental...

The Mogilev Automobile Plant named after Kirov has assembled a prototype model of an underground bus able to carry 17 people, the company’s deputy chief designer Valery Peklin told BelTA.

The bus is supposed to deliver miners through narrow tunnels, travelling up to 10 km at 35 km/h. The bus is...

The small business of the Mogilev oblast generated 20.8% of tax revenues in the Mogilev oblast in 2007, BelTA learnt from the economy committee of the oblast executive committee. Tax revenues to the oblast budget increased by Br76.9 billion, or 23.8% as against 2006.

The Mogilev oblast allocated Br421.7 million to...