Archive - Jul 2008

A team of students of Belarusian State University has won three gold and one silver medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, BelTA learnt from First Deputy Education Minister Alexander Zhuk.

The 15th international student math competition was held in Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) on July 25-31. Taking part in the competition were...

The CIS election observation mission that will monitor the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus will conduct observation on the principles of political neutrality and impartiality, non-interference in the course of the electoral process and in the internal affairs of the country, the statement...

The Central Election Committee of Belarus expects around 700 international observers to be present during elections of deputies to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Lidia Yermoshina said as she met with Sergei Lebedev, head of the monitoring mission of the...

High profitability of Belarusian enterprises will help maintain the stability of the national economy in the conditions of rising energy prices, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at the session of the Council of Ministers of Belarus on July 29. In January-May 2008, the profitability of the...

422 initiative groups for the nomination of candidates to deputies of the House of Representatives have been registered in Belarus, Secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Nikolai Lozovik told BelTA.

The nomination of candidates through signatures collection is one of the three ways to participate in the elections....

Belarus has harvested the first million tonnes of grain, BelTA learnt from the plant growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs. By the morning July 29 the agricultural companies of the country harvested 1.119 million tonnes of grain.

With 366,000 tonnes, the Gomel oblast is the countrywide leader...

About 500 enterprises of the Mogilev oblast are to be reincorporated as joint stock companies by the end of 2009, chairman of the Mogilev oblast executive committee Boris Batura told a press conference on July 23.

By late 2008, all the agricultural enterprises of the oblast are to be reincorporated as...

Belarus and Venezuela are discussing new supplies of Belarusian machines, co-chairman of the Belarusian-Venezuelan intergovernmental commission Viktor Sheiman said during talks between the Belarusian and Venezuelan delegations on July 23.

In his words, in January-May 2008 enterprises of the Belarusian Industry Ministry exported $11 million worth of commodities to Venezuela. In...

A delegation of Belarusian business circles is going to visit South Korea on October 28-November 2. The Belarusian delegation will attend the 11th international exhibition of IT and electronic industry G-Fair 2008, BelTA was told in the Minsk Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Belarusian business circles will...

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is expected to arrive in Belarus on a one-day working visit on July 23, the press service of the President of the Republic of Belarus told BelTA.

Hugo Chavez and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko are expected to hold both narrow-format and extended talks, with bilateral...