The state will continue giving aid to Chernobyl-affected areas, but it will not maintain them, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko said while talking to workers of Komarinskiy collective farm of Bragin district and local residents. "We will use the example set by your enterprise to teach others the way to work well. It is a good example for others," said the head of state. Next year Komarinskiy collective farm will be used as the basis for setting up an agro-town, where all conditions...

While visiting the town of Bragin, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko laid a basket of flowers to the monument to Vasiliy Ignatenko. Today, on the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe the head of state is visiting Bragin district. On April 26, 1986 in the very first minutes after the explosion at the fourth power unit of Chernobyl nuclear power plant, internal service senior sergeant Vasiliy Ignatenko and his squad arrived to extinguish fire on the roof of the third power unit,...

About USD 2 billion were allocated for the fourth state program on mitigation of consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe for 2006-2010, the president of Belarus declared during a meeting with residents of the town of Bragin. According to him, the program envisages step-by-step rehabilitation of contaminated regions and people inhabiting them. According to the president, the core target is to set up normal living and working conditions. “The essence of the approach is to make the people...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko believes it is necessary to resolve the problem of mothers, who stay with their children aged under 5 in hospitals. The head of state gave the order while visiting Bragin district central hospital today. Alexander Lukashenko visited the children division of the medical establishment, had a look at the surgery and emergency care ward of the surgery department.

Over four years about Br24 billion were invested in changing business pattern of contaminated region in Gomel oblast, Alexander Lukashenko was informed by chairman of the Gomel oblast executive committee Alexander Yakobson during a president’s visit to sovkhoz Komarinskiy of the Bragin region. Alexander Yakobson noted that in line with the presidential instructions since 2002 as many as thirteen agricultural companies have been re-oriented in Gomel oblast. The Bragin region alone utilized...

Alexander Lukashenko has valued positively the progress in the program on refocusing the agricultural production in the affected territories of the Bragin region. During today’s visit to the sovkhoz “komarinskiy” the president was informed about the high efficiency of the new cattle breeding technologies. The high results came through close interaction of science and production. The program on refocusing agricultural production on the contaminated land helped the sovkhoz...

An exhibition of American photographer Kristina Brandel “From Love” was opened today in the Minsk Museum of Modern Arts. The project is timed to the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Speaking to BelTA, the artist said that the exhibition is a result of numerous trips to the exclusion zone for almost 13 years. “This place is like a vacuum. Houses waiting for their hosts to come back, deserted roads, things left behind. I tried to capture the atmosphere of desolate and...

The projects on developing the corn seed production in Gomel oblast have proved effective. When visiting the agricultural cooperative “Druzhba-Avtiuki” in the Kalinkovichi region, the president was informed that the corn-calibrating facility in Mozyr has been operating effectively and efficiently. Last year it produced about 8 thosuand tons of corn seeds which were then sold to other oblasts of Belarus. Russia is ready to buy this product considering its good quality and low price. The...

During a working trip to Gomel oblast president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has visited objects of social infrastructure of agro town Syrod, the Kalinkovichi region, namely, the House of Amateur Art Activities, JSC Bytservis and the local school. When in the House of Amateur Art Activities the president visited an exhibition of folk arts and crafts and met with director Zinaida Novik who told the president that at the moment there were 12 clubs enrolling 160 people in the house. The...

The restoration of the Chernobyl-affected regions will demand more funds than construction of agro towns. “Yet this is the Belarusian fate and the most important thing is to met the targets,” Alexander Lukashenko declared today during a meeting with dwellers of Syrod village of the Kalinkovichi region. “I realize very well that a lot of mistakes had been done in the post-Chernobyl years and not one decade will be needed to improve the situation. It turned out that it is not so easy to...