In 2008, the Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark) produced 45 thousand tonnes of wire for high-pressure hoses (RML wire), BelTA learnt from BMZ Deputy General Director for Hardware Production Anatoly Savenok. The global RML wire production is 130 thousand tonnes. BMZ accounts for 35% of the global RML wire market, he noted. The plant sells its products to the global largest producers of high-pressure (hydraulic) hoses: American companies Eaton, Parker, Alfa Gomma (Italy). Belarusian cord...

Folk group Yalinka (Elsk, the Gomel oblast) will represent Belarus at the 23rd international folk festival in Zielona-Gora (Poland), BelTA learnt in the culture department of the Elsk Regional Executive Committee. The forum which will be held on September 7-14 will gather folk bands from many countries. Folk group Yalinka was established in 1991. Its repertoire includes Belarusian folk songs and also songs created by Belarusian and Russian composers. During the concerts Yalinka uses...

Representatives of 11 countries will take part in the 5th international choreographic festival Sozhski Karagod which will be held in Gomel on September 11-14, BelTA learnt in the culture department of the Gomel City Council. Representatives of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Sweden, Italy and other countries have already approved their participation in the choreographic festival. The Mariinka Theater of St. Petersburg, the Belarus State Dance Company, the best...

More than 100 enterprises will take part in the exhibition “Modern technologies of environmental management and protection” that will be held in Rechitsa on September 6, BelTA learnt from head of the marketing and information technologies department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Valery Savostov. The exhibition will feature modern technologies and equipment used for water, atmosphere, land, flora and fauna management and protection. The visitors will be...

The athletes of the Gomel oblast brought five medals to Belarus at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, BelTA learnt from Vasily Zharankov, head of the physical education, sports and tourism department of the oblast executive committee. The Belarusian team Roman Petrushenko, Artur Litvinchuk (the Gomel bolast), Aleksei Abalmasov and Vadim Makhnev won gold in Kayak Four (K4) 1000m Men. 22-year-old representative of the Gomel oblast Andrei Kravchenko showed his best alongside the world’s...

Some 230 crews of combiners of the Gomel oblast have threshed 1 thousand tonnes of grain and more for the first time, BelTA learnt from the Gomel Oblast Trade Union of Agrarians. In 2007, 110 combiners reached this target. The leader of the oblast competition is a crew of combiners of the agricultural company Kholmech of the Rechitsa region. The combiners of that company have already threshed almost 5.3 thousand tonnes of grain. Leaders of the harvesting campaign from the other regions...

Gomeltransneft Druzhba oil transporting enterprise intends to construct four new oil storage tanks with the storage capacity of 50 thousand cubic meters each, BelTA learnt from the enterprise. The incremental renewal of the oil storage facilities is one of the priority tasks of the company. At present, in-line production and control station Mozyr is installing two oil storage tanks with the capacity of 50 thousand cubic meters. They will have double cases and a floating roof which will help...

In the Gomel oblast the number of people nominated into polling station commissions for the elections to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus using applications stands at 6,031 (58.2% of the total), BelTA learnt from the personnel organisation department of the Gomel oblast administration. All in all, there are 1,121 polling station commissions in the oblast with 10,363 people in them, including 3,031 representatives of labour collectives, 585 representatives of...

Trading house Gomselmash-Chuvashia will be set up in the Chuvash Republic of the Russian Federation this year, Minister of Industry and Energy of the Chuvash Republic Yuri Voloshin noted during the international seminar Russia Today which is being held in Cheboksary now. The trading house will be set up in line with the decisions adopted by the working group on cooperation development between Chuvashia and Belarus, Yuri Voloshin told BelTA. According to Yuri Voloshin, dealer and...

The combiner team of Valentin Solomakho and Alexander Gran from the agricultural company Kholmech, Rechitsa region, has harvested more than 4,000 tonnes of grain as of morning August 8. This an all-time record in the Gomel oblast. This is the first time that the region has reached such result, BelTA learned in the agriculture and food committee of the Gomel oblast executive committee. The oblast in general has grown good harvest. For example the yield in the agricultural company Kholmech is...