The Russian-Belarusian youth creative project "In Motion" got underway in Vitebsk, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk regional committee of the Belarusian BRSM Youth Union. The project will start with the "Open Dialogue" to discuss "The youth of the two countries is the art without borders" and a dance master class in reggaeton from Russian master Anatoly Kalayev. Experts of the Open Dialogue discussion platform are youth leaders of Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus and Russia's Smolensk Oblast. It...

The ticket sales for the festival of arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk will start on 23 February, Director General of the Vitebsk cultural center, the festival director Alexander Sidorenko told the first press conference dedicated to the 27th edition of the festival, BelTA has learned. The tickets will go on sale in three phases. The first one will begin on 23 February. The visitors will be able to purchase tickets for solo concerts at the Summer Amphitheater, the opening and closing...

Vitebsk plans to establish twinning relations and sign cooperation agreements with the cities of Lublin (Poland) and Kosice (Slovakia) in 2018, Vitebsk Mayor Viktor Nikolaikin said during the session of the Vitebsk City Council of Deputies, BelTA has learned. "Now we are in the middle of concluding the agreements on establishing twinning relations with Kosice and Lublin and are working on the possibility of signing similar documents with the Estonian Tartu and Lithuanian Panevezys,"...

Belarus and China's Drex Food Group intend to sign a $250 million investment agreement by the 2017 year end to establish dairy farms in Vitebsk Oblast. The matter was discussed during the visit of Belarusian Agriculture and Food Minister Leonid Zayats to China, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Embassy in China. After official meetings in Beijing, the Belarusian delegation held an agricultural forum Made in Belarus, which brought together Belarus' leading companies. Following the...

Art experts from Belarus, Russia and Latvia will participate in the scientific readings to be held as part of the 29th installment of the Ivan Sollertinsky International Music Festival in Vitebsk, Director of the Research Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Music Nelly Matsaberidze, the organizer of the 19th scientific readings, told a press briefing on 7 December, BelTA has learned. The central theme of the two-day readings that opened on 7 December is the personality of Ivan...