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Applications for the Call for Entrepreneurial Initiatives of the project “Support to Economic Development at the Local Level in the Republic of Belarus” have closed. All in all, the project received 241 applications from 12 pilot districts of Belarus, project's PR specialist Nadezhda Sinelnik told BelTA.

Early spring cereals and leguminous crops (excluding corn, buckwheat, and millet) have been sown on 25.8% of the target area in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.

The International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk is one of the best festivals in the world, Russian pop singer Oleg Gazmanov told the STV TV channel, BelTA has learned.

Members of the seventh-convocation House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus have given the first reading to the bill on amending the law on mass events in Belarus, BelTA has learned.

In 2020, the collection of secondary raw materials in Belarus wen up by 3.2% over 2019, BelTA learned from the Secondary Raw Materials Operator.

The festive atmosphere of the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk is all about creativity and mutual respect, BelTA learned from the official Instagram channel of the festival's directorate.

A Chinese investor has spent Br2,800 to purchase buildings of two former schools in Chashniki District of Vitebsk Oblast at an action organized by the Vitebskoblimushchestvo committee. It plans to set up food manufacturing facilities on the premises, BelTA learned from the committee.

The main trademark of the 30th edition of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk is its festive atmosphere, Director of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk Gleb Lapitsky told the STV TV channel, BelTA has learned.

Household sample surveys are carried out to assess living standards in Belarus. Low-income households are people whose per capita income is below the subsistence level. In 2020 the average per capita minimum subsistence budget in Belarus was Br253.5, and on 1 February 2021 it increased to Br262.87. Deputy Economy Minister Tatyana Brantsevich told BelTA about living standards in our country and the results achieved in recent years.

The 30th edition of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk has been scheduled for 14-19 July. The festival's program will include traditional concerts, an ice show, theater performances, and a street art festival, Director General of the Vitebsk Culture Center, Director of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk Gleb Lapitsky told a press briefing on 24 March, BelTA has learned.

Law enforcement agencies will coordinate fight against extremism in Belarus. Head of the State Security Legislation Observation Oversight Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus Valery Shulyak made the statement as he commented on the new revision of the law on counteracting extremism, BelTA has learned.

Belarusian healthcare professionals are expecting a third wave of the coronavirus infection this spring, Healthcare Minister Dmitry Pinevich told reporters prior to announcing postgraduate work assignment decisions at Vitebsk State Medical University, BelTA has learned.

An instrumental duo of students of Shumilino Children's Art School won the grand prix at the online competitions London Art and Dance and Talants of Berlin, BelTA learned from Nelli Zhavoronkova, a teacher at Shumilino Children's Art School.

Vitebsk is hosting the second edition of the open contest of national cultures, talent, and beauty Grace International that features contestants from nine countries who study at universities of Vitebsk and Minsk.

Volunteers tidied up the territory around memorials to villages destroyed during the Great Patriotic War in Vitebsk Oblast on 17 March.

On 16 March, volunteers cleaned up the memorial complex Shunevka in Dokshitsy District. The memorial complex commemorates 149 local residents who were killed by Nazis on 2 March 1943.

The Vitebsk concert hall hosted an evening of modern choreography Clean Sheet. Diana Yurchenko's folk theater-studio of modern choreography of the Vitebsk center of culture performed at the event. The audience was shown a two-part Belarusian-language program.

India is interested in economic cooperation with Vitebsk Oblast in such areas as woodworking, water purification, pharmaceutics, and personnel training for oil processing industry. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Belarus Sangeeta Bahadur made the statement as she met with representatives of the Vitebsk Oblast administration, BelTA has learned.

On 2 March, the headquarters of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee hosted an event to sign the program of implementation of the cooperation agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the Belarusian Orthodox Church in Vitebsk Oblast for 2021-2025. Taking part in the event were Vitebsk Oblast Governor Nikolai Sherstnev, Archbishop of Vitebsk and Orsha Dimitry and Bishop of Polotsk and Glubokoye Igtaty.

A cache with a large amount of explosives has recently been found in Belarus, State Security Committee (KGB) Chairman Ivan Tertel said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA informs.