KIEV(BelTA) - The Belarusian agricultural machinery engineering company Gomselmash plans to ramp up exports to Ukraine by 50%, Dmitry Mulyar, head of the company's marketing center, told BelTA on the sidelines of the Made in Belarus expo.   Gomselmash views the Ukrainian market as a priority, Dmitry Mulyar underlined. “Last year, we sold there around 100 combine harvesters. In 2018 we plan to boost the exports by 50% and supply 150 vehicles. We expect to increase our exports to 800...

GOMEL(BelTA) – There are great prospects for future cooperation between Gomel Oblast and Russia’s Bryansk Oblast. Bryansk Oblast Vice Governor Yuri Mokrenko made the relevant statement during the solemn meeting held in Gomel on 2 April on the occasion of the Day of Unity of Peoples of Belarus and Russia, BelTA has learned. Yuri Mokrenko noted that cooperation between Bryansk Oblast and Gomel Oblast covers virtually all spheres. Relations grow stronger in various fields. Bilateral trade...

GOMEL, 22 March (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash will open an enterprise to assemble grain harvesters in Bashkortostan, Russia, the company’s press service told BelTA. The agreement on expanding cooperation was signed by Gomselmash and the Bashkortostan Agriculture Ministry during the latest agribusiness forum in the city of Ufa. The document provides for using premises of the OOO Tekhresurs dealership to set up an enterprise to assemble Palesse...

 GOMEL, 22 March (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash will open an enterprise to assemble grain harvesters in Bashkortostan, Russia, the company’s press service told BelTA. The agreement on expanding cooperation was signed by Gomselmash and the Bashkortostan Agriculture Ministry during the latest agribusiness forum in the city of Ufa. The document provides for using premises of the OOO Tekhresurs dealership to set up an enterprise to assemble...

MINSK, 5 March (BelTA) – The appointment of Oleg Borisenko as Director General of OAO Gomeltransneft Druzhba has been okayed, BelTA has learned. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the relevant personnel decision on 5 March. Prior to the appointment Oleg Borisenko worked as Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Council of Deputies.

GOMEL (BelTA) – The third international festival Gomel Light Fest (GoLF -2018) will take place in Gomel on 9-11 February, BelTA learned from the organizing committee.   Partaking in the event will be groups of artists and individual performers from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.   “The festival has a versatile program. Partaking in it will be light show artists, mime groups, street theaters, dance groups, light and sand artists. There will be many interesting events apart from...

MINSK (BelTA) – Plans have been made to hold the world circus art festival Idol for the first time ever in Gomel in September 2018. The festival was initiated by People’s Artist of Russia, Director of the Great Moscow Circus Edgard Zapashny, BelTA has learned. The festival will take place in the Gomel State Circus. The festival is expected to attract artists from all over the world. The best circus acts will be demonstrated in Belarus. According to Edgard...

GOMELBelTA) - Italy's Parma would like to expand cooperation with Gomel Oblast in healthcare, President of the Italian association Help for Children Parma Giancarlo Veneri told BelTA. He is heading the Italian delegation that is on a visit to Gomel Oblast.   Giancarlo Veneri noted that the cooperation between the Italian province of Parma and Gomel Oblast began 20 years ago with humanitarian projects. Gradually the regions started cooperating in the economic and social fields....

 MINSK (BelTA) – The Russian budget airline Pobeda has been authorized to offer flights between Saint Petersburg and Minsk and between Moscow and Gomel, BelTA learned from Vladimir Kostin, Director of the Aviation Department of the Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry. According to the source, the Russian air carrier Pobeda was authorized to service Saint Petersburg-Minsk flights and Moscow-Gomel flights after meeting the necessary conditions and passing the...

MINSK, 27 December (BelTA) – Christmas Trees for Peace, the traditional New Year meetings between school students from different countries, are taking place from 22 to 28 December in Gomel Oblast. Held by the Gomel Oblast office of the Belarusian Peace Fund, the meetings will bring together over 350 children from Belarus, Latvia, and Russia, BelTA learned from head of the fund's Gomel Oblast office Timofei Glushakov.   In 2017, the international meetings will be held in Gomel,...