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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...

Belarusian and Lithuanian military intend to work out a draft technical agreement on cooperation in military topography, geodesy and cartography between the two defence ministries, the press service of the Belarusian Defence Ministry told BelTA.

On July 22-25 Vilnius is hosting a meeting of representatives of military topography services of Belarus...

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

Hugo Chavez and Alexander Lukashenko are expected to hold both narrow-format and extended talks, with bilateral documents to be signed.

Hugo...

The third festival of the Belarusians living in Moldova “Belarus is my homeland” will be held in Chisinau in September 2008, BelTA learnt from Counselor of the Belarusian Embassy in Moldova Dmitry Gorbachev.

Participating in the festival are the National Children’s and Youth Centre of the Education Ministry of Belarus and...

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...