Gomel, Belarus News

MINSK, Belarus Former road race world champion Zinaida Stagurskaya has been killed after being hit by a car while training in her native Belarus.

Rainy weather in Belarus has not caused the worsening of the crops condition yet, declared the department of agrometeorological forecasts of the Republican hydrometeorological centre.

Global packaging group Linpac wants to expand manufacturing in Eastern Europe and has tentative plans for a new food packaging materials plant in the former Soviet Union state of Belarus.

Acclimating was never an issue for 18-year-old Anastasia Markovtsova. Markovtsova, known to most as Annie, grew up watching her parents fight for a better life.

A VOLUNTARY group is calling on people to donate a shoebox of goods to send to disadvantaged families in Belarus.

The meeting will be devoted first of all to completion of the official state border delineation, trade-economic cooperation, interaction in energy and transport spheres.

The long-term absence of rains caused the shortage of moisture in upper layer of the soil, which causes difficulties in providing of the spring sowing campaign and maturity of spring plants, declared the department of agricultural meteorological forecasts of the republican Hydrometeorological centre.

President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will hold a working meeting in Gomel city on Wednesday, May 6. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Ukraine Valentyn Velychko disclosed this to UNIAN.

Belarusian mobile operator Mobile Digital Communications has upgraded its EDGE networks in Minsk, Gomel and Brest regions, as a result of which users will see maximum EDGE data transfer speeds rise from 236kbps to 296kbps.

Agricultural economies of Gomel oblast became the first in Belarus, which completed the sowing campaign of early grains, declared the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on April 17.

To date, agrarians sowed spring grains and legumes throughout 228.200 ha or 22% of planned areas.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Russia on Tuesday of failing to fulfill bilateral economic agreements and called on Belarusian officials to "stop kneeling in Russian offices." "As regards Russia, there's not exactly fair treatment here, and I'm not afraid to announce it publicly.

The majority of agricultural economies of Gomel and Brest oblasts and the economies of the south regions of Minsk oblast of Belarus started the sowing campaign of early spring crops, declared the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on March 30.

Bucking the trend of little positive news coming out of Belarus, a former USSR republic situated between Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, one plastic processor there has seen high success at a greenfield plant that started up in early 2006.

Mkrtchyan cancelled the contract with Belarus' Gomel in December 2008. Before, he had played for Pyunik and Iran's Bargh Shiraz club.

In 2009, the Gomel-based confectionery factory Spartak is planning to acquire two automatic box assembling machines.

"Belarus, Turkey coordinate further ties in trade and investments Belarus and Turkey have coordinated a plan of actions till 2010 on the development of links in foreign trade, investments and contracted ...

Gomeloblpischeprom is planning to find an investor to set new facility to bottle mineral and drinking water taken from wells in the Rogachev district of the Gomel region.