Representatives of the private sector from the State of Nevada, USA intend to visit Brest in February, BelTA learned from Denis Nepsha, Aide to the Director General of the Brest Branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The relevant agreement was reached as top officials of the Brest Branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry attended the 2nd European Innovation Week in Lublin, Poland in September. In particular, Director of the Polish-American Chamber of...

Dear tourists! We invite you to visit the "Brest" tourist zone. From January 1, 2018, the tourist zone "Brest" can be visited without a visa for a 10-day period. For this purpose you need: The document certifying personality (passport); Special tour confirmation document given by travel agencies; Insurance policy. Tourist zone "Brest" includes: Brest city and Brest region; Kamenets region; Pruzhany region; Zhabinka region.   You can buy a...

The Ingushetia Culture Days will be held in Minsk and Brest on 7-8 December, BelTA learned from the press service of the government of the Russian region. The program includes the events that will introduce the Belarusians to the national singing and dancing traditions of the Ingush people, the unique customs and natural wealth, cultural and artistic heritage of Ingushetia. The concert halls of the Belarusian State Philharmonic and Brest Regional Palace of Culture of the Trade Unions...

Minsk and Brest are among the top ten most popular destinations for CIS tourists in winter, BelTA learned from the analytical agency TurStat. The rating is based on the analysis of the popularity of tourist trips this winter. The CIS Top 10 most popular tourist cities in winter includes Minsk, Almaty, Astana, Baku, Yerevan, Tashkent, Bishkek, Brest, Chisinau and Ganja. Weekend tours to the capitals of the CIS countries are popular with tourists. So are tours to ski resorts: Chimbulak...

Brest Oblast Hospital and the University Hospital of Strasbourg will sign an agreement on cooperation, BelTA learned from Head Doctor of Brest Oblast Hospital Alexander Karpitsky. The visit of a delegation from the University Hospital of Strasbourg led by President Christophe Gautier is scheduled for 11-13 December. The delegation will also comprise Professor Gilbert Massard, the chairman of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, one of the outstanding specialists in transplantology....

Brest is hosting a regional conference on cardiovascular and eye diseases. The event was made possible thanks to a cooperation agreement signed by the Healthcare Department of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee and Filatov Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 15. The agreement envisages exchange of experience, knowledge, and best practices. “This conference marks the first stage of our cooperation. We have established contacts in the most crucial fields: cardiology and ophthalmology. I...

Brest Meat Packing Plant and Bereza Meat Packing Plant are undergoing the compliance certification to export their products to the Chinese market, Andrei Klets, the deputy chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee, told the media following a meeting with a delegation from the Chinese city of Bengbu in the Brest City Hall, BelTA has learned. The Chinese delegation has been working in Brest Oblast for the third day already. It has already visited Bereza District and Drogichin...

This year the number of railway containers travelling from China to Europe via the Belarusian city of Brest has doubled in comparison with 2016, BelTA learned from Brest Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Klets on 2 November. Some 100,000 railway containers have been transferred from the narrow gauge to the European gauge in Brest this year as part of the new Silk Road. The number is expected to increase by several times in the future. Chinese companies and Belarusian Railways intend to...

The 30th installment of the international classical music festival January Music Nights will be held in Brest on 8-12 January 2018 and will bring together the country's best companies, honored worker of arts Lilia Batyreva, the founder and arts director of the festival, told a press conference, BelTA has learned. The President's Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus under the baton of Viktor Babarikin will perform on stage of the Brest Academic Drama Theater on the first day the...

The interest of European business in Belarus is growing, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to France and concurrently to Spain Pavel Latushko told BelTA. “The government and the diplomatic corps would like to see investments to grow at a much greater pace than it is now. This is the objective we have been working to achieve on a daily basis. In recent years, we have arranged about 40 trade-economic and investment presentations of Belarus, both in Paris and in...