Foreign news

24 June 2010

• Gomelskaya Prauda — Community in Belarusian

  24.06.10 Approximately, eight thousand of Belarusians reside in Bryansk region (Russia). Three years ago they united into the “Belarusian Community for Bryansk Area” Non-Governmental Organization

29 April 2010

• Respublika — The Route of Memory

  № 77 (4989) 29.04.10 Voluntary Association for Assistance to Army, Air Force and Navy (DOSAAF), together with the Representative Office of the Standing Committee of the Union State, the Minsk City Executive Committee and DOSAAF of Russia will conduct, from April 29 to May 7, an international motor rally along the Minsk-Brest-Gomel-Novozybkov-Moscow route

21 April 2010

• The IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum held on 16-17 April 2010 in Vilnius

  Delegations from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Belarus, Latvia, Norway, Poland, and other countries were present. United Way Belarus acted as a focal point for Belarus.

9 March 2010

• Sovetskaya Byelorussia — Our Style

  Successful action of the Belarusian combined team at the European hairdressers’ art championship

24 February 2010

• Zvyazda — A schoolboy and a pensioner rescued a disabled man from the fire

  № 34 (26651) 24.02.10 Mikalay Krotau, senior pupil of the Komsenitsa village school (Mogilev region), the member of the Belarusian Non-Governmental Youth Organization of Firemen – Rescuer-Workers, rescued the life of the village-dweller. This information was received from Yory Miatlitsky, the Organization Chairman

11 February 2010

• Zvyazda — Belarusian Song in Bialystok

  № 24 (26632) 10.02.10 “Belarusian Song – 2010” festival was arranged by the Belarusian Non-Governmental Cultural Society in Bialystok

22 December 2009

• Respublika — Single Life – Eights by Number

  № 240 (4906) 19.12.09 A well known Belarusian poet who lives in Belostock, Yan Chykvin, the chairman of the “Belavezha” Belarusian Literary Union, visited Grodno where he presented to the audience his collected poems “Single Life”

16 November 2009

• “Eastern Partnership” Civil Society Forum held in Belgium

  As BelaPAN agency informs, the first session of the “Eastern Partnership” Civil Society Forum is held on 16-17 November in Brussels

22 October 2009

• 

  Greetings to the Fine Arts Festival of Disabled People

  United Way, Belarusian Republican Non-Governmental Organization, sends its greetings to DPS No 5 “PODGORNA” and to personally Ms. Teresa Grzelczak on the occasion of 12th Fine Arts Festival for Disabled People and the 6th International Art and Handicraft Exhibition held in its frame from 2 to 14 November 2009

13 October 2009

• Nasha Niva — Mayor of Vilnius Rewarded Fedor Niunka, Chairman of the Belarusian Culture Society

  09.10.09 On October 9 a solemn ceremony took place in the Vilnius city hall, to reward the most outstanding city-dwellers for their important contribution to Vilnius development and self-government

2 October 2009

• 

  Participation of the Ministry of Justice in the OSCE meeting on human measurement issues in Warsaw

  The representatives from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus took part in the OSCE meeting on human measurement issues held on 28-29 September in Warsaw

18 September 2009

• Azerbaijan – Belarus Friendship Society Created in Baku

  “Azerbaijan is interested in establishing more active ties with Belarus in many lines”, said Arif Mekhtiyev, Academician, chairman of the Azerbaijan – Belarus Friendship Society created in Baku, the Head of the Higher Qualification Commission under the auspices of the President of Azerbaijan at the first meeting of the Society

2 July 2009

• Invitation to Participate in the International Work-Camp

  “Educational Initiatives Centre” Charitable Organization from the Ukraine invites for participation in the international volunteers’ work-camp for reconstruction of historical and architectural heritage of Belz “Following the Ancient History”

24 June 2009

• Polotsk has Joined the New Time Hanse

  According to information obtained from the Ideological Department of the Polotsk City Executive Committee, a decision according to which an old Belarusian city has joined this non-governmental organization was made in Veliky Novgorod (Russia) on June 20 at the general meeting of the Hanseatic League delegates

22 June 2009

• Respublika — Language of Culture does not Need Interpretation

  № 111 (4777) 19.06.09 It was for the first time that actors from Panevezhis gave their performance in the city over the Neman. They staged a play according to “Nightingale” fairy tale by Andersen, in the Lithuanian language. Majority young spectators understood everything without interpretation: most of the audience consisted of the children of ethnic Lithuanians who were the members of “Tevine” cultural non-governmental organization that acts in the regional center, and “Rura” NGO from Lida

16 April 2009

• Zvyazda — With Respect for the Native Word

  № 70 (26428) 15.04.09 More than 500 young reciters took part in the district stages of the 38th “Native Word” contest held in Bialystock, Gaynowec, and Belsk Podliaskie

27 March 2009

• Belarus Through the Eyes of Children, Exhibition opened in Moldova

  Belarus Through the Eyes of Children, exhibition of children’s pictures officially opened in Moldova

18 March 2009

• Narodnaya Volya — Congress of the International Writers’ Unions Association

  №41-42 (2967-2968) 18.03.09 Recently, regular VII portback election congress of the International Writers’ Unions Association, which unites 62 organizations of literati, has been held in Moscow. Six delegates from the Belarusian Writers’ Union took place therein.

17 March 2009

• Narodnaya Volya — We were invited ...

  №41-42 (2967-2968) 18.03.09 The Assembly of the Baltic Writers’ Rada – an International Association of Writers’ Unions from Baltic states (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia) – will be held in Sweden.

13 February 2009

• The Jakub Kolas Cultural Center in Lithuania

  Fedor Niunka, Director of the “Society of Belarusian Culture in Lithuania” NGO informed BelaPAN that the “Jakub Kolas Cultural Center in Vilnius” non-governmental organization was established in Lithuania