By June 2006 Jeweller Plant (a branch of Gomel-based Kristall manufacturing association) will produce 32 personal gold rings for awarding Belarusian hockey champions – members of Yunost hockey club, head of the plant's marketing service Vladimir Klimanskiy told BelTA. The rings will bear engraved names and surnames of the winners. Each ring weighs around 20 grams. Rings weighing around 40 grams will be made to order of triple champions and club administration. It took four months for...

The sowing of grain-crops in the basic area (90 per cent) will be completed by May 1 in conformity with the schedule, deputy agriculture minister Vasiliy Pavlovskiy told BelTA. According to him, the sowing campaign has been competed on 81 per cent of the area. Brest and Gomel oblasts have completed the sowing. By May 1 Minsk and Grodno oblast are expected to finish the campaign soon as they “have significantly enhanced their efforts” over the recent days, the deputy minister said. Some...

New hospitals for every population centre should be built taking into account the existing local needs, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko said while visiting Bragin district central hospital. According to the head of state, hospital construction should use individual approach (number of storeys, area and number of divisions). While at the hospital the head of state's attention was centred on specialised medical aid to Chernobyl-affected population and staffing of medical...

The village revival program will give a greater impetus for rehabilitation of the affected regions, the president of Belarus said during a meeting with residents of the Bragin region. He noted that in the next five years Belarus will focus on construction of roads, completion of gasification, social security, improvement of living conditions in villages. “I visit the affected regions several times a year. Every time I come here I see more positive changes,” the president noted. The most...

The state will aid Bragin and other areas affected by the Chernobyl-catastrophe. But "hangers-on" will not be tolerated, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko stated today while talking to residents of the town of Bragin. In his words, people living in areas affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe should join the efforts aimed at developing their local communities. The president stressed, at present the Belarusian state is realising several important programmes. The state cannot put them...

After the USSR collapse Belarus started alleviating consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in most complicated conditions. It became a national priority, said Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko while delivering his speech to residents of the town of Bragin today. The head of state noted, last year the third state programme for overcoming Chernobyl catastrophe consequences was completed. "The central budget allocated almost Br 2 trillion for the programme...

Belarus waits the international community to take up more constructive approaches and stir up common efforts aimed to mitigate consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said during a meeting with residents of Bragin. “We are interested in international cooperation and support. We still have a lot to do, like to purify the land, improve the living conditions of people,” Alexander Lukashenko said. The head of state said he was sorry that “not...

Next year there will be no preferential credits for purchase of imported grain dryers, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko declared when speaking to Amkodor representatives during his working visit to Gomel oblast. The company launched production of grain dryers KZC-15 and the first unit has already been installed in Komarinsk agricultural company. The new equipment has a number of advantages in comparison with the equipment used before. In particular, the installation of the unit does...

In order to make the world safer and free of nuclear threat it is necessary to disarm, president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes. When speaking to reporters today during a working trip to Gomel oblast the head of state noted: “If we want to have safe and nuclear-free world, let us disarm”. Yet if some countries are menaced by others, they will have to protect themselves and their people, the Belarusian leader noted. According to him, Iran is one of the richest and ambitious...

Gomel opened a museum dedicated to the history of the region after the Chernobyl catastrophe. The museum was set up under the Gomel oblast emergencies department. It is hosted in one of the agency’s administration buildings. According to the information given to BelTA in the emergencies department’s press service, the museum showcases documental testimonies about the events which followed the explosion at nuclear plant. The exposition nests in three halls. There is a special stand...