The best graduates of Gomel schools will be honoured on June 9. Representatives of the city education department told BelTA, 108 medallists and winners of national academic competitions were invited to attend the solemn ceremony in the column hall of Rumyantsevs-Paskevichs Palace. Gomel mayor Alexander Belyayev is expected to congratulate the graduates on successfully graduating from school and to deliver a farewell speech. The former school students will be presented mementos. The source...

Fifteen children and youth folklore bands from various parts of Belarus took part in the 4th national folklore art festival Bereginya (keeper, lar), which took place in the town of Oktyabrskiy (Gomel region) on June 1-4. Representatives of the culture department of Oktyabrskiy district executive committee told BelTA, children folklore music bands from Ukraine, Latvia, and Poland also demonstrated their art to guests and participants of the festival. The festival programme included art...

Gomel oblast will allocate Br66 billion this year to finance the nature-conservative measures, chairman of the Gomel oblast committee of natural resources and environmental protection Oleg Akushko has stated today during the roundtable dedicated to the World Day of Environmental Protection. The financial resources will be assigned by the national fund of environmental protection. According to Oleg Akushko, in drafting the program for utilization of the allocated funds, a priority is given...

Fifteen children and youth folklore bands from various parts of Belarus took part in the 4th national folklore art festival Bereginya (keeper, lar), which took place in the town of Oktyabrskiy (Gomel region) on June 1-4. Representatives of the culture department of Oktyabrskiy district executive committee told BelTA, children folklore music bands from Ukraine, Latvia, and Poland also demonstrated their art to guests and participants of the festival. The festival programme included art...

Around 300 schoolchildren of Gomel region, Bryansk, Chernigov, Kursk and South-Eastern district of Moscow took part in a meeting dedicated to the International Children’s Day near the Friendship monument, which is located at the meeting-point of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine borders, head of the pedagogical department of Gomel region education board Lyubov Voinova told BelTA. The source noted, the schoolchildren were participants of the 10th international children festival “Druzya,...

Products of the republican unitary company “Gomel distillery” won high awards of the seventh international contest-tasting UNITED VODKA-2006 held in Brussels, BelTA was informed by principal quality engineer of the company Larisa Sopot. The balsam “Black Queen” won a golden medal, the vodka “Elite Super” – bronze. According to Larisa Sopot, the Gomel-based distillery has repeatedly confirmed the high quality of its goods. In recent years “Black Queen” has won eight golden...

This year's first triplets have been born in Gomel region. The mother of two girls and a boy is Tatiana Repina, 25, resident of the town of Khoiniki. A spokesperson for the maternity ward of the regional clinical hospital told BelTA, Tatiana Repina had successfully undergone abdominal cesarean section. Now she and the babies are feeling well. The infants weigh 2820, 2390, and 2700 grams. The source informed, those are the first children of the young mother. She had been delivered to the...

Tomorrow Gomel will inaugurate a monument to legendary clown Karandash and his dog Klyaksa. On the eve of the opening of the monument the Gomel town administration sent invitations to daughters of People’s Artist of the former USSR Mikhail Rumyantsev, who now live in Moscow. According to the information given to BelTA in the department of town planning and architecture of the Gomel town executive committee, granddaughter of the famous artist Ovena Rumyantseva is expected to show up as well...

Over 150 veterans from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine took part in a meeting near the Friendship Monument at the border of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The meeting is traditionally held on the eve on the International Children's Day. Chairperson of the veteran club “Prometei” Lidiya Yelovaya told BelTA, the first meeting of veterans of the three Slavonic republics took place 9 years before. It was initiated by the Gomel club. As part of the present meeting an amateur talents concert was...

A completely renewed Internet site “Gomel Oblast to Investors” has gone online. It is available in the World Wide Web at www.gomelinvest.by. The project to improve the only regional investment site in Belarus was implemented by the economy committee of Gomel oblast administration and the Belarusian Telegraph Agency. The renewal had been completed before the Third Gomel Investment Forum, which took place in the city upon the Sozh at the end of last week. At present the site hosts over 200...