One of the top priorities in rural areas is replenishment of the pedagogical supply, Deputy Education Minister of Belarus Kazimir Farino told a press conference. Some 25% of university graduates who come to work in villages under the job assignment schemes tend to move to other places when their two-year contracts expire. “Gomel oblast executive committee has found an excellent solution to this problem,” Kazimir Farino said. It has become a tradition to give keys to new houses to young...

Around 2 thousand elderly live in residential homes of the Gomel oblast. In 2007, the oblast budget allocated Br19.8 billion, or Br2.1 billion up as against last year for their support, BelTA learnt from Alexandra Bakaras, the deputy chair of the labour and social protection committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The allocated funds will be assigned mainly for medical care of the elderly, food and clothes purchasing. Around 400 thousand elderly live in the Gomel oblast now....

By the forthcoming heating season the Gomel oblast has stockpiled 58.3 thousand tonnes of fuel oil, or 16.6% above the target, Vladimir Mikhasev, the head of the housing and communal services department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, told reporters on September 27. The majority of the region’s companies, which have their own boiler-houses to heat residential areas, stockpiled the fuel oil in bulk for steady work of heat sources within 10 days. Educational establishments of...

Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Yakobson met with businessmen of the oblast in the Bragin region on September 26. In the course of the session, the sides discussed the prospects of business development and possible trends of investments in the Bragin region. They also considered the issues related to the state support for small-scale businesses. The leader of the Gomel oblast personally presented the investment projects which could be implemented in the region....

Decathlete Andrei Kravchenko of Gomel has become a winner of the international muliathlon championships in France, director of the Gomel oblast track and field center of Olympic reserve Igor Sivodedov told BelTA. Andrei Kravchenko scored 8,553 leaving behind champions of the 11th world track and field championships in Osaka. Besides, he set four personal records in shot-put, 400m run, discus throw and pole jump. Andrei Kravchenko is trained by honored coach of Belarus Ivan Gordienko in...

In the morning of September 24 farming companies of the Gomel oblast had corn threshed on more than 6.8 thousand hectares, 27% of the target. The yield totalled 34 thousand tonnes, with the average yield per hectare as high as some 50 centners, BelTA learnt from Mikhail Kolesnikov, Head of the Plant Production Intensification Office of the Agriculture and Food Committee of the oblast administration. After collecting almost 400 hectares of corn farmers in the Rechitsa region boast the average...

The renewed bus route Gomel-Kiev has linked the Belarusian town of Gomel and the capital of Ukraine. BelTA has learnt from the country’s transport unitary company Gomeloblavtotrans that a 25-seat bus leaves the bus station “Gomel” at 8 a.m. every day. The distance takes nearly five hours. The ticket costs Br28 thousand. The bus starts back from Kiev at 16.50. In recent years the bus Gomel-Kiev has plied only during vacations. In 2007 the route has been renewed. Residents of the...

Svetlogorsk-based Khimvolokno will take part in the Exprofil exhibition of textile yearn in Paris, BelTA learn tin the company. At the exhibition which gathers world’s leading producers of textile and yarn Khimvolokno will present a wide assortment range of threads and textile. Particularly, the company will showcase polyester texturized threads, multifilament yarns, jersey cloths, heatproof Arselon threads and yarns. This year Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno will take part in eight...

Delegations of twin towns from Russia, Moldova and Poland will arrive in Rechitsa to celebrate a harvesting festival-fair Dazhynki 2007, BelTA learnt in the Rechitsa Regional Executive Committee. According to specialists, official delegations of the town of Kamrat (Moldova), the Polish town of Swidnika and the North Butovo District of Moscow will take part in the celebrations devoted to competition of the harvesting campaign 2007. The foreign guests are expected to meet with the leadership...

The agricultural companies of Gomel oblast launched an onion harvesting campaign, BelTA was told by deputy director general of the Gomel oblast fruits and vegetables association Liudmila Vabischevich. All 49 companies united by the oblast association and specialized in onion growing buckled down to the work. As of September 13, they harvested about 400 hectares or 29% of the area under onion; the gross onion yield exceeded 9.1 thousand tonnes. The oblast average yield exceeds 225...