10.08.2010
MINSK, 10 August (BelTA) - Kotra-Cepkeliai, a unique wetland compelx located in Belarus and Lithuania, has been added to the List of Transboundary Ramsar Sites, BelTA learnt from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus.
The Kotra reserve in Grodno Oblast, Belarus, was designated to the list in 2002 and Cepkeliai, Alytus county, Lithuania, - in 1993. This vast transboundary wooded wetland complex comprises bogs, lakes, wet forests, fen mires and inundated...
05.08.2010
VITEBSK, 5 August (BelTA) – The International Youth Festival is opening in Vitebsk on 5 August, BelTA learnt from the Palace of Creativity of Children and Youth of the Zheleznodorozhny District of Vitebsk.
Partaking in the festival will be over 100 young people from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. They are to take part in sports and role-playing games, clay modeling, Belarusian belt making and dance courses. On 7 August a performance in...