Archive - 2008

The draw of the finals of the European women’s handball championships took place in Macedonia. The tournament will be held in that country on December 2-14, 2008.

Belarus will play the qualifying round in Group C. The match against Sweden will take place on December 2/3, Russian on December 4/5 and...

The Belarusian government has adopted a privatisation plan for 2008-2010. The decision is laid down by Council of Ministers resolution No 1021.

The privatisation plan is divided into two parts. The first one lists 519 national enterprises, both small and large ones, which are supposed to be incorporated as joint-stock companies...

Polish companies are interested to participate in the privatization of Belarusian enterprises, BelTA learnt from Marcin Korolec, the Vice Minister of Economy of Poland.

«I think that Polish companies should be actively involved in this process,” he said. According to Marcin Korolec, the close distance between the two countries and centuries...

Belarus’ performance at the Olympic Games in Beijing will be the best over the whole history of the country’s participation in the Games as an independent state, Minister of Sport and Tourism Alexander Grigorov said at an official farewell ceremony of the Belarusian sports delegation to Beijing on July 18....

In January-June 2008, Bobruiskagromash exports of farm machines rose 1.5 times to reach $22 million from the same period of 2007, BelTA learnt from the marketing department of the company.

The major importers of the company’s products in this period were the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Russia accounted for...

The international music festival Golden Shlyager-2008 in Mogilev has already received the first applications for the participation in the contest of vocal and instrumental ensembles named after Vladimir Muliavin, BelTA learnt from artistic director of the promotion centre of Mogilev Philharmonic Society Vasily Buinitsky.

The competition has been held for several...

Six school students represent Belarus at the international Olympiad in mathematics, BelTA learnt from Yuri Gladkov, head of the secondary education department of the Education Ministry.

The first international school Olympiad takes place in Madrid this year. The international jury will announce the results on July 21.

Among the Belarusians partaking in...

The Turkish company Emsas is interested in the construction of hotels in Grodno, Brest and Mogilev, Vasily Romanov, Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told reporters on July 16.

In the near future, representatives of the Turkish construction companies will visit Belarus to discuss concrete projects.

Emsas would like...

Belarus and Jordan have signed the intergovernmental agreement on military-technical cooperation, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Defense Ministry of Belarus.

The document has been signed by Head of the State Military-Industrial Committee Nikolai Azamatov and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordan Armed Forces...

An active political period of the parliamentary election campaign started in Belarus. On July 15, all the district election commissions began their work, BelTA learnt from Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Lidia Yermoshina.

“The formation of the district election commissions is a crucial stage of the current political campaign....