According to the preliminary data, Gomel oblast labour collectives have gathered more than Br1,5 billion during the nationwide subbotnik on April 29, BelTA was informed in the economy committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. About 590,000 residents of the oblast took part in the subbotnik. Some worked at their companies; some were engaged in the community development projects. Over 4,500 employees of Belorusneft production association generated about Br67 million. JSC Mozyr Oil...

Over 200 thousand Gomel residents will partake in the national subbotnik on April 29. The event will be held under the motto “Let’s Make the Town Cleaner”, the ideological department of Gomel town council told BelTA. Employees of Gomel companies, public officials, students, doctors will contribute to the beautification of the town. Students of Frantsisk Skarina Gomel State University will plant trees in the student’s park. Besides, the community development and beautification...

Results of Gomel region social and economic development in January-March 2006 will be summed up at today's out session of the regional executive committee in Zhlobin district. The region administration's press service told BelTA, the event will gather heads of administrations of towns, districts, Gomel city districts, and regional administration bodies. The sitting will also table social and economic development of Zhlobin district and one-time monetary aid to residents of the region.

Japan will develop its cooperation with Belarus step by step, Charge D'affaires Pro Tempore of Japan to Belarus Koike Takayuki told BelTA. The diplomat took part in the presentation of an exhibition "Japan Culture and Traditions", which is taking place in Gomel regional local lore museum. "First of all, we will continue giving humanitarian and technical aid to affected areas of Gomel region," the source noted. Let us remind, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe...

The Gomel Oblast Drama Theater was a great success in the Russian town of Orel, BelTA was informed by theater’s director Valentina Rogovskaya. The tour of the Gomel Company was timed to the 10th anniversary of the Belarus-Russia Union. The first item on the program of the tour was the play “Strange Mrs. Savage” written by John Patrick. Then there were the comedies “Love in Baroque taste” by Yaroslav Stelmakh and “Truth is good but happiness is better” by Alexander Ostrovskiy....

The Belarusian teams from Gomel have won bronze and silver at the youth world cup of ‘What? Where? When?’, BelTA was informed in the education department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. More than 1,200 teams from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel and Baltic States competed for the awards. Gomel team ‘White Lynx’ went with bronze while silver was given to ‘Chronic smart guys’. According to the data of the Gomel oblast executive committee, the teams...

The Chernobyl catastrophe and A-bombing of Japan have many things in common, head of the radiation medicine department of the World Health Organization Shunichi Yamashita told a briefing in Gomel State Medical University. Although dwellers of Hiroshima were exposed to external radiation while Gomel residents were exposed to internal one, i.e. via food and air, still some similarities between the two accidents can be found. For example, both Japanese and Belarusians reported increased number...

During sowing campaign in the agricultural cooperative society Romanovka of the Mozyr region ten zolotniks dating back to Nikolai II times were found. According to the information given to BelTA by head of the agricultural cooperative society Romanovka Anatoly Alexandronov, during a lunch break one of machine-operators found two gold coins. After digging on the place of the find 8 more coins were found. As Anatoly Alexdescribed described the coins, they had a depiction of Nikolai II on one...

In 2007 Gomel and the French city of Clermont-Ferrand will celebrate the 30th anniversary of establishing twin-city relations. The plans of the celebrations have been discussed today during a meeting between the French delegation and the oblast administration in the Gomel town council. According to director of the Clermont-Ferrand international contacts department Gerard Renault, the 30-year long friendship with Gomel will be celebrated by BelTA correspondent Sergei Kholodilin’s...

Participants of the international conference “20 years after Chernobyl. A strategy of recovery and sustainable development of the affected regions” have arrived today from Minsk to Gomel to continue the work in the oblast center. The officials who spoke at a plenary sitting feature chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee Alexander Yakobson, chairman of the presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich, UN resident/coordinator in Belarus Cihan...