Archive - Oct 2009

MINSK, 29 October (BelTA) – There will be no drastic changes of the exchange rate of the national currency and no drastic devaluation in Belarus, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus (NBRB) Piotr Prokopovich told media on 29 October.

IMF experts believe that the NBRB’s current policy...

MINSK, 23 October (BelTA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan plans to carry out several joint projects in Belarus. In particular, the projects envisage the recreation of Belarusian children in Japan and the minimization of Chernobyl catastrophe consequences. The information was released by Gennady Davydko, Deputy Chairman of...

MOGILEV, 23 October (BelTA) – Mogilev hosts a seminar on non-custodial sentences and other criminal penalties where the participants from Belarus and Germany share experience of the application of such penalties and their reformation in Belarus and Germany, BelTA has learnt.

The forum is held by the Supreme...

MOGILEV, 22 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Russian joint company Bobruiskagromash of the Agroselkhoztekhnika Company (Krasnoyarsk krai, Russian Federation) will expand the line of products, BelTA learnt from Vasily Tsarik, deputy head of the marketing department of Bobruiskagromash.

Such agreement has been reached during the talks between the leadership of Bobruiskagromash...

MINSK, 21 October (BelTA) – There are plans to allow presidential candidates and candidates to the Belarusian parliament to use their own funds during election campaign, BelTA learnt from Lydia Yermoshina, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus.

The bill on the amendments and addenda to the electoral law...

GOMEL, 16 October (BelTA) – Specialists of the Belarusian oil company Belorusneft have started seismic exploration of the Band-e-Karkheh field in southern Iran, the Belorusneft press service told BelTA.

The seismic exploration is carried out using Belarusian equipment. It started in line with the contract signed by Belorusneft and the private...

MINSK, 15 October (BelTA) – Belarusian and German twin towns will discuss the cooperation amid the global financial and economic crisis during the 7th Belarusian-German session of twin towns which will be held in Mogilev on 16-17 October, BelTA learnt from Nina Ivanova, Head of the Presidium of the Belarusian...

MINSK, 15 October (BelTA) – The European Commission is developing the energy efficiency and energy saving project for Belarus. The cost of the project is ?5 million, head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Belarus Jean-Eric Holzapfel told a press conference in Minsk on 15 October.

Jean-Eric Holzapfel...

MOGILEV, 15 October (BelTA) – Belarus and Germany are entering a period of new opportunities, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Belarus Gebhardt Weiss said as he met with first deputy chairman of the Mogilev oblast executive committee Vladimir Kravtsov.

In 2007 the political relations between the European Union and...

MINSK, 15 October (BelTA) – Germany intends to invest in the Mogilev oblast. On 15-16 October, a delegation of representatives of the German economy and cultural establishments in Belarus is in Mogilev on a visit. The delegation is led by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Belarus Gebhardt Weiss,...