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A delegation of veterans and youth from Kaliningrad will visit Minsk and the Minsk region on May 17-18, BelTA learned from deputy head of the department for educational and ideological work of the Education Committee of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Nadezhda Velikaya.

The patriotic action "Train of Memory" gathered 450 people. The group includes youth activists, veterans of the Great Patriotic War and local wars, representatives of the administration of the Kaliningrad region.

Guests will visit the museum of the history of the Great Patriotic War, lay flowers to the stele "Minsk - the city of the hero." The children will meet with students from the capital's gymnasium №28, secondary school №120, the Center for technical and artistic creativity of children and youth of Frunzensky district Zorka, students of the professional and technical college of railway transport named after EP Yushkevich in order to find like-minded people for joint patriotic projects . Also in the program - a visit to the historical and cultural complex "Stalin's Line", the memorial complex "Khatyn", the Hill of Glory, a concert in the Cinema House.

Before that, the group got acquainted with the sights of Bryansk.

The patriotic action "Train of Remembrance" has been held by the government of the Kaliningrad region since 2007. Over ten years more than 3.9 thousand Kaliningraders became its participants, visited Moscow, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Kursk, Brest, Smolensk, Tula, Novorossiysk and Volgograd.

More than 100 conscripts from Minsk region today participated in a solemn event in the memorial complex "Kurgan of Glory" dedicated to sending young recruits to the Armed Forces, BelTA has learned.

During the rally, Deputy Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Viktor Sirenko, Military Commissar of the Minsk Region Colonel Nikolai Krivchenya, First Secretary of the Minsk Regional Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union Dmitry Voroniuk, Chairman of the Minsk Regional Organization of the Belarusian Union of Officers Vladimir Belousov and others expressed their words of support and support. Bishop Borisov and Marynogorsky Veniamin conducted a rite of blessing for military service.

The event was attended by the delegations of Borisov, Logoysk, Minsk, Smolevichi districts, Zhodino, representatives of DOSAAF, servicemen of the 5th separate special forces brigade of the Armed Forces, a military band. The soldiers of the elite troops arranged a demonstration performance for the recruits, in which they demonstrated the elements of hand-to-hand combat, receptions with cold weapons, stunts with fire, etc. Flowers were received from the government authorities, public organizations, conscripts, students of military patriotic classes, clergy . On the site of the memorial complex was organized an exhibition of sports equipment DOSAAF.

As it was reported, in the spring call for the manning of the Armed Forces, other troops and military formations of Belarus is planned to send about 10 thousand people. Service in the reserve will be about 1 thousand conscripts.

The Minsk region and the federal state of Carinthia of Austria are interested in expanding cooperation in the field of alternative energy. This was discussed today at the meeting of the Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Semyon Shapiro and the Regional Minister of Economy of the Land Government of Carinthia Christian Benger, BelTA has learned.

The agreement on cooperation and partnership between the Belarusian and Austrian regions was signed in 2008. Last year the delegation of the Minsk region participated in the traditional economic forum of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, held in Velden. A presentation of the region took place, special attention was paid to the opportunities of the Sino-Belarusian industrial park "The Great Stone."

As noted during today's meeting, the chairman of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, the two countries are implementing a number of major joint projects in the field of telecommunications technologies, banking, woodworking. "Projects of the same level and projects in small business are still small," he said.For example, in all districts of the Minsk region, it is necessary to build energy sources with local fuels that reduce dependence on fuels such as natural gas. In this sphere it seems very promising. "

Christian Benger supported this initiative. He said that in Carinthia there are enterprises engaged in the development of thermal and electrical energy from wood, and they not only produce the appropriate equipment, but also operate it. In addition, these companies are investors. "During the meeting in Velden, topics were discussed that are of the greatest mutual interest, one of them is renewable energy sources, Carinthia is ready to expand cooperation in this direction." Interaction in such areas as electronics, microelectronics, machine building, metalworking, woodworking, processing Plastics and recycling of plastics waste, and tourism in the long term, "Christian Benger said.

As it was noted at the meeting, the conditions that determine the cooperation between Belarus and Austria are very favorable, but they need to be developed. For example, the proposal was made to improve the conditions for cooperation in the financial sphere, in the development of aviation communications.

During a visit to the Minsk region, a delegation from Carinthia visited the Dzerzhinsky Agrokombinat OJSC, Christian Benger praised the work of this agro-industrial complex, and also planned to familiarize with the Great Stone industrial park. Christian Benger invited Semen Shapiro to visit in 2018 The next forum of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in Velden.The parties plan there to assess the concrete results of the ongoing work on expanding cooperation.

Given the structure of the economy of Carinthia, the Minsk region also considers tourism (hotel industry, gastronomy, SPA services), agriculture, forestry and construction as promising areas for cooperation. Austria is a traditional investor in the economy of the Minsk region. The volume of foreign direct investment received from Austria in the Minsk region in 2016 amounted to $ 3.4 million (117.7% of the level of 2015). Among the companies that attracted the largest amount of direct foreign investments on a net basis, are Henkel Bautechnik JLLC and Severstal Distribution CJSC. The foreign trade turnover of the Minsk region with Austria for 2016 was $ 20.6 million. The main export items from the Minsk region to Austria are potash fertilizers, vegetables, frozen fruits. Imported from Austria are mainly medicines, equipment for processing rubber and plastics, furniture and door hardware.

The regional contest for the best family with many children in the Minsk region ("The Big Family of the Year of the Minsk Region") will be held on May 12 in Logoisk, BelTA learned from the main department of ideological work, culture and youth affairs of the Ministry of Regional Development.

The contest will be held in Logoisk District Cultural Center. Participation in it will be won by the winners of the zonal stages, which took place from April 14 to 29. For the victory in the regional competition, the Vishnyak family from the Slutsk district, the Evtukh family from the Nesvizh district, the Repin family from the Dzerzhinsky district, the family of the Michnitsky from Zhodino will argue. Also among the contenders for the title are the Lashkevich family from Logoisk District, on the basis of which the final stage is being held.

The regional contest will begin at 11.00 with the nomination "Secrets of Success". Here the participants will present their master classes. At the contest, they will also demonstrate culinary skills, creative numbers, and tell about family traditions.

Evaluation of the participants' performances will be a competitive commission headed by Deputy Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Viktor Sirenko. It was composed of representatives of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Regional Executive Committee, the regional organization of the Belarusian Women's Union, regional branches of the Belarusian Peace Foundation, Belarusian Children's Fund, the Minsk Regional Trade Union Association and others. >

The event will be held on the eve of the Family Day, which is celebrated in Belarus on May 15. The competition was organized in pursuance of the subprogram "Family and Children" of the state program "People's Health and Demographic Security of the Republic of Belarus" for 2016-2020.

Festive fireworks on May 9 will be given in 8 regional centers of the metropolitan area. Such information is posted on the website of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, BelTA informs.

Previously, all the salute, which will begin at 21.00, will see the inhabitants of Smolevichi. At 21.45 the baton will take Cherven. At 22.00 bright flashes will illuminate the sky over Soligorsk, Luban, Krupki and Uzda. Krupok also expects a laser show. At 22.40 fireworks will begin in Logoisk, at 23.00 - in Kopyl.

The leadership of the remaining districts of the Minsk region decided to abandon the traditional end of the celebration with fireworks and to direct financial resources for landscaping.

As it was reported, the central event for the Victory Day in the Minsk region will be held on the Glory Hill on May 6. On a festive day, on May 9, in Molodechno, an action of remembrance "Belarus Remembers" will take place. Residents of the district center and the district will pass from the central square of the city to the mass grave with portraits of the dead soldiers and retired veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Such an event became traditional and will be held in Molodechno for the third time.

Plans of events dedicated to the celebration of the anniversary of the Great Victory are approved in every district of the central region and in Zhodzina. In honor of the significant date, rallies will take place with the participation of veterans, laying flowers at monuments to soldiers and military graves, solemn evenings, festive concerts, actions.

The regional festive event dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War will be held on the Glory Barrow on May 6, BelTA learned from the main department of ideological work, culture and youth affairs of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.

On the main site of the memorial complex will be a solemn meeting (beginning at 12.00) with the participation of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, representatives of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, city and district executive committees, republican state administration bodies, deputies of the House of Representatives, as well as members of the Council of the Republic.

During the festive event, thematic areas will work. Among them - "There was a month of May", a concert program with the participation of amateur collectives and individual performers of the Minsk region; A sports ground (darts, arm wrestling, figured driving of a bicycle, etc.); The DOSAAF airplane sport site; An exhibition of technical creativity and centers of patriotic education of youth in educational institutions. Also the work of the photo zone "Soldier's Halt" and the theatrical program with the participation of the honored amateur collective of Belarus - the Dramatic Theater "Vidarys" of the Palace of Culture named after. M. Gorky (Borisov), the folk club of amateur poets and composers "Zhyvitsa" of the Minsk Regional Center of Folk Art and the People's Amateur Association "In the circle of friends" of the Zhodino City Cultural Center, amateur collectives of the Nesvizh district.

For the participants and guests of the regional solemn event, the work of trade and catering, field kitchens, performance of instrumental ensembles, accordionists, bayan players, soloists, costumed in military uniforms during the Great Patriotic War will be organized.

Plans of events dedicated to the celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the Great Victory are approved in each district of the capital region and in Zhodzina. In honor of the significant date, rallies will take place with the participation of veterans, laying flowers at the monuments of soldiers and military graves, solemn evenings, festive concerts, actions.

As reported in the press center of the Minsk Regional Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, in the state memorial complex "Khatyn" on May 5 the action "Watch of Memory" will take place. On the eve of the Victory Day activists of the BRYU, youth law enforcement detachments will commemorate the soldiers who fought for a peaceful and independent Belarus. For the participants of the action will be an excursion to the memorial complex. Head of the Department of the Investigation Committee of the Minsk region, Pavel Ignatov, will hand them membership cards to the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, as well as letters of recommendation for admission to the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The presentation of the finalists of the second Minsk regional festival of student business companies will be held on May 11, BelTA learned from the Education Department of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee.

In total, 42 business companies representing general secondary education institutions from the Minsk and Brest oblasts, as well as seven business companies from institutions of vocational and secondary specialized education, applied for participation in the festival. The directions of their activities are diverse: growing agricultural products, making souvenirs, organizing excursion activities, manufacturing joinery products, garments, products for household needs, printing services.

According to the decision of the expert group, 27 business companies will be represented in the final of the festival. In the Minsk Regional Institute for the Development of Education (Minsk, P. Glebki, 88) during the booth presentation on May 11, their participants will talk about their activities, demonstrate the produced goods or rendered services. On the same day from 12.00 to 14.00 the festival will be able to visit all comers and get acquainted with business companies, purchase the products or services they sell.

Last year 22 companies were represented in the final stage. Along with the goods and services provided, students demonstrated their business plans, staffing, job descriptions of employees, as well as calculations reflecting the financial result of companies' work. Young entrepreneurs then exchanged experience, met with representatives of business structures, attended trainings and master classes.

Promotion of business and creative initiative of students in the field of entrepreneurial activity, development and implementation of business ideas and projects is the main goal of the second festival of student business companies. Its organizers are the Education Department of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee and the Minsk Regional Institute for the Development of Education.

The first business companies were established in the educational institutions of the Minsk region in the 2011/2012 academic year. In the 2016/2017 academic year, 137 student business companies operate in the central region.

Minsk region and Chinese Guangdong sister-city intend to develop cooperation in the spheres of culture and education. This was reported today by journalists from Belarus and the PRC Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee Semyon Shapiro, BelTA has learned.

According to Semyon Shapiro, Belarus and China pay special attention to cooperation at the regional level. For example, with regard to the Minsk region, its twinning is the province of Guangdong - one of the most economically developed Chinese regions. He said that during the last meeting with the leadership of the twin-city province, there were discussed many promising areas of cooperation, including the establishment of air communication. In addition, the parties discussed issues related to education, culture and sports.

At the same time, the most important ones on the agenda are trade and economic, investment projects. "We must create such economic conditions that it would be beneficial for China's business to come to Belarus," said the chairman of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee. As examples of the most successful investment interaction, he led the industrial park "Great Stone" and a joint venture "BelJ" for assembling cars.

Semyon Shapiro is convinced that it is interesting for China to come to Belarus taking into account its membership in such integration associations as the Eurasian Economic Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In turn, Belarus is interested in creating new jobs and employment in the workplace with decent conditions and earnings.

Representatives of Chinese media visit Belarus with a press tour May 1-7. On May 2, journalists had an opportunity to get acquainted with CJSC BelJ, BelAZ, the Great Stone industrial park and Ozeritsky-Agro. On May 3, they are scheduled to participate in the opening of the XXI International Specialized Exhibition "CMI ў Belarus", meetings with the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Andrei Shorz and Information Minister Lilia Ananich, as well as a visit to the High Technology Park

Minsk region health camps will be ready to receive children from the first days of June, BelTA learned from the Republican Center for Sanitation and Health Resort Treatment.

According to experts, special attention is paid to the timely and qualitative preparation of camps for the summer health season - sanitary and hygienic standards, safety and fire safety requirements must be fully observed.

For the preparation of health camps in the Minsk region by the summer season, the representation of the Minsk regional administration of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium and Spa Treatment of the Population is allocated Br72 thousand. Staff are being recruited for all types of camps and teachers are being trained for work. All health camps will be provided with methodical recommendations on health improvement of schoolchildren.

53 620 children (37.6% of the total number of students) are planning to improve their health in the Minsk region during the summer holidays, of which 21 835 - in camps with round the clock stay, 31 785 - in camps with a day stay.

The regional health campaign of 2017 will be held during the republican action "Summer - time of discovery". The main goal of the action is to organize health improvement and employment of minors of different age groups, to maximize the summer time for the development of the personality of children, their abilities and opportunities. In the districts of the Minsk region, work will be organized for sports camps, profile camps with a linguistic bias, tourism and local lore studies, for highly motivated children, military patriotic, labor and recreation, as well as tent camps.

Republican competitions - remote horse riding among professionals and amateurs - will be held in the village of Starinka in the Vileika district on April 30, BelTA learned from the organizers of the event.

Over 20 pairs of participants (rider and horse) from different regions of Belarus will compete for the championship cup. Spectators and fans will be able to see several breeds of horses: traken, Arab, Latvian, Belarusian, etc. The competitions will be held at two distances of 40 km and 80 km. The time of the first start is scheduled for 8.30 at the "Old Fashion House".

It is believed that equestrian runs originated in the Arabian Peninsula, where the Bedouins happily ridden through the desert, testing their mounts for strength. Equestrian runs on 100 km were especially popular in the USSR. They were often attended by well-known historical figures, for example, Semyon Budyonny and Konstantin Voroshilov.

Modern horse rides are horse racing on rough terrain along a previously planned route. The rider wins, whose horse showed the best result by the time of passing the race. But there is one nuance: after each stage of the competition (20 km), the riders are examined by veterinarians. If the physical condition of the horse is considered unsatisfactory, the pair is removed from the competition.

The organizer of the upcoming republican equestrian run was the farm "AV Sports horses"