This year’s harvesting campaign is coming to an end in Gomel oblast, BelTA was told in the oblast committee for agriculture and foodstuffs. The oblast has harvested about 90% of the area under crops. The Loev, Khoiniki, Narovlya, Elsk, Bragin and Zhitkovichi regions have harvested more than 96% of the area under grain crops. The gross grain yield is approaching 700 thousand tons while the average crop capacity makes 24,4 centners per hectare. Since the first days of the campaign the...

A concert tour of famous Belarusian pop-singer Irina Dorofeeva “Under Peaceful Sky” will start in the village of Bobrovichi of the Kalinkovichi region and in the town’s park of the regional center today, BelTA learnt in the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. On the whole, the singer intends to give ten concerts which will be held in five regions of the Gomel oblast. Irina Dorofeeva will perform not only in big towns of the oblast but in rural areas as well....

On July 22, the 5th regional festival of accordion players of the Polesie Region – “Play, Accordion!” will be held in the town of Elsk of the Gomel oblast. The festival will gather 150 artistes. As BelTA learnt in the culture department of the Elsk region, the festival “Play, Accordion!” has been held in the region since 2000. It is organized by the Elsk Regional Executive Committee and the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The main aim of the festival...

The town of Loyev from the Gomel oblast and the town of Repki from Ukraine’s Chernigov oblast have signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed within the framework of a visit of an Ukrainian delegation to Loyev, the First Deputy Chairman of the Loyev regional executive committee, Lidia Dolbikova, told BelTA. The agreement will help the two frontier regions to cooperate closely in trade and economy and sci-tech areas. According to Lidia Dolbikova, chiefs of the companies will...

A branch of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) will start to operate in Gomel on July 16, BelTA learnt from spokeswoman of the company Svetlana Resenchuk. The Gomel branch will operate simultaneously with the Minsk central branch and the Brest branch. Sellers and buyers will be able to take part in the trade sessions in real-time mode in Minsk, Brest or Gomel. The trading floor occupies 360 square meters and it is equipped with 34 working stations. The first trade sessions...

Till the end of 2010 Gomel oblast plans to fit up to 40% of all its social facilities with ramps and other special equipment for physically disabled people. This figure is stipulated in the oblast programme on barrier free environment for physically disabled people for 2007-2010 approved by the Gomel oblast council of deputies. As BelTA was told in the oblast council of deputies, the programme is aimed at removing obstructions on the path of travel of the disabled and physically weak people...

Gomel oblast spas and sanatoria are booked by the end of summer. In the last two years not only locals but also foreign holiday-makers have been showing increased interest in Gomel spas. Nowadays sanatoria of the region sell the vouchers on their own, BelTA learnt in the recuperation and sanatoria treatment department of the Gomel oblast executive committee. Due to the successful marketing policy and reasonable prices, virtually all the spas have been booked in summer and partially in...

More than EUR500 thousand will be assigned for implementation of the Chernobyl program of humanitarian aid and rehabilitation by 2008. The funds have been allocated by the countries-donors – Ireland, Canada and Japan, BelTA learnt from coordinator of the Chernobyl program Nikolai Nagorny who took part in the session of the Chernobyl International Coordination Committee held in Gomel today. According to the specialist, the funds will be assigned for purchasing medicines and vitamins and...

The Red Cross Societies of Belarus and Ukraine intend to sign a cooperation agreement, President of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine Ivan Kosyuchenko told BelTA. Today a session of the Interstate Coordination Committee on Chernobyl was held in Gomel. The session was organized by the Belarusian Red Cross Society, Gomel oblast mission of the Red Cross Society, republican scientific and practical center of radiation medicine and human ecology. Attending the session were heads of the Red Cross...

A session of the International Coordination Committee on Chernobyl will be held in Gomel on July 5. The session is organized by the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS), Gomel oblast mission of the Red Cross Society, republican scientific and practical center of radiation medicine and human ecology. Attending the session will be the head of the delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for Belarus and Ukraine, heads of Red Cross Societies of Belarus,...