MINSK(BelTA) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree to confer the Order of Mother on 30 women from Gomel Oblast and Grodno Oblast for giving birth to and raising five and more children, BelTA has learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.   The award was conferred on women from all walks of life, including women working in the agricultural sector, education, healthcare and trade, social workers, and housekeepers.   Among them are stock breeder...

GOMEL (BelTA) – Specialists of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft drilled another high-rate well in the Armadillo field (block 55) in Ecuador, the company’s press service told BelTA. The well is 3,496m deep. Once fully operational, it is expected to produce 64 tonnes of oil per day. Work is now in progress to prepare the well for commercial operation. The source reminded that the Armadillo oil field is being developed in line with the contract signed by the Ecuadorian...

MOSCOW(BelTA) – The Mashinostroitel health resort based in Gomel was named among the winners of the second edition of the Divo Eurasia festival - contest of videos, photos and animated films held in Orenburg, Russia, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia. The Belarusian health resort was named winner in the nomination “Health improvement and recuperation facility”. According to the organizing committee, the final of the contest featured 50 projects....

GOMEL (BelTA) – The Gomel Oblast Branch of the Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS) began distributing another set of vouchers to resettlers from Lugansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, BelTA learned from head of the BRCS Gomel Oblast Branch Alla Smolyak. Each voucher is worth Br100 and can be used to buy foodstuffs (except for alcoholic beverages and tobacco products), articles of daily necessity. Eligible for this kind of one-time assistance are elderly people, people with...

GOMEL(BelTA) – Delegations from 18 countries will take part in the Business Days in Gomel forum on 23 November, Director General of the Gomel Office of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marina Filonova told the media on 20 November, BelTA has learned. Among the participants of the forum will be representatives of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, and others. The Netherlands and Israel will take part in the forum for the first time. “The forum will be held for the...

GOMEL (BelTA) – Unique rites, traditions and customs will be featured by regions of Gomel Oblast at the town of artisans during the 1st Forum of Regions of Belarus and Ukraine in Gomel on 25-26 October, head of the main department for ideology, culture and youth affairs of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Irina Dovgalo told the media on 22 October, BelTA has learned. “Guests and participants of the forum will be able to get familiar with the cultural potential of our country, Gomel...

GOMEL(BelTA) - The Dnieper Basin Council will convene for a meeting during the Forum of Regions of Belarus and Ukraine due in Gomel on 25-26 October, chairman of the Gomel regional committee of natural resources and environmental protection Andrei Sushchevich told the media on 16 October, BelTA has learned. The council will focus on the draft plan of the Dnieper River basin management. “Basin management is a new thing for our country. It is therefore very important to study existing...

MINSK(BelTA) – Belarus and Ukraine have agreed the program of the forum of regions, which will take place in Gomel on 25-26 October, representatives of the Embassy of Belarus in Ukraine told BelTA. The sides have agreed the concept and the main components of the forum's program. Plans have been made to arrange the seventh session of the Belarusian-Ukrainian business cooperation advisory board and a business matchmaking session on the first day of the forum. Thematic conferences and...

MINSK (BelTA) – Historians will gather in Gomel on 22-23 November to discuss a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, BelTA learned from Vyacheslav Danilovich, Director of the History Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB). According to the source, the conference will gather historians from Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan to discuss a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War and the launch of Belarus’...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The Belarusian steel mill BMZ is busy mastering the production of new type of reinforcement bars, the company’s Press Secretary Alexander Olesik told BelTA. The company has made a pilot batch of the new kind of merchandise – rebars with the diameter of 8mm. BMZ made only rebars with the diameter of 10-40mm in the past. The company decided to start making the new product in response to customer’s demands. This year alone the company has received about 40...