Gomel completed the 9th international theater festival “Slavic Theater Meetings” attended by 11 theater companies from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The Grand-Prix holder became a play “Went without Returning” of the Gomel Oblast Drama Theater. As a BelTA correspondent was told by director of the Gomel Oblast Drama Theater Valentina Rogovskaya, this is the first Gomel work in line with the program on state and public support of theaters of the CIS and Baltic countries carried out...

In January-September Gomel oblast collected revenues and taxes of Br1,2 trillion. The initially expected revenues were surpassed by Br180 billion, BelTA has been told in the financial department of the oblast executive committee. According to chief of the department Andrei Kruglei, about a half of the additional earnings were due to overfulfilling of the forecast parameters of the socioeconomic development of the oblast (Br70 billion) and changes in the tax legislation (Br18 billion)....

The production amalgamation Gomselmash won Grand Prix for creating new agricultural equipment at the international agro-industrial exhibition Golden Autumn-2005 held in Moscow in the Russian exhibition center. As a BelTA correspondent was told by deputy director general of the amalgamation Vasiliy Klimenok, three machines of Gomselmash were conferred the forum awards. It is a new harvester KZS-1218 which capacity reaches 14 kilos of grain per second. The new national harvester meets the...

A delegation of business circles of Minsk and Gomel oblasts which is staying on a working visit to Donetsk on October 11-13 has conducted a meeting with the Ukrainian counterparts in the Donetsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As BelTA was informed by counselor of the Belarusian embassy to Ukraine Alexander Scheslenok who was also among the delegates in Donetsk, the meeting focused on the issues of the bilateral Belarusian-Ukrainian cooperation in industry, trade and raw materials...

Today Health Week has started in Gomel oblast. This year it is held under the motto ‘Young people against addictions’, BelTA was informed in the oblast center for hygiene, epidemiology and public health, an initiator of the event. This year the week runs from 10 to 14th October. The center for hygiene, epidemiology and public health will organize meetings with specialists, put in action telephone hotlines, present programs on raising the profile of healthy lifestyle with the help of...

Gomel oblast has completed introducing all minimum state social standards in education and healthcare, deputy chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee Piotr Kirichenko told a press conference September 29. According to him, there are 5 minimum standards in healthcare and 10 in education. Supplying schools with computers (one PC for 30 students) turned out the most challenging task in promoting state standards. At the same time Piotr Kirichenko noted that the work in this direction...

In January-July 2005 the foreign trade turnover of Gomel oblast made Br2,92 billion and grew by 22,5 per cent against the same period of 2004. Exports made Br2,06 billion; imports – Br860 billion. In cost terms exports increased by 40,2 per cent; imports reduced by 6 per cent, a correspondent of BelTA has been informed in the statistical department of the oblast executive committee. For the 7 months of the current year the foreign trade volume of the region exceeded the whole 2003 index...