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Dmitry Rutkovsky, Head of the Directorate for Eliminating the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, told The Nation Speaks how Gomel Oblast monitors the safety of products grown on contaminated territories.

Trade turnover between Brest Oblast and Vietnam grew by 2.3 times over the past five years. This figure was mentioned at a meeting between Chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee Piotr Parkhomchik and a delegation from the Vietnamese province of Lao Cai, BelTA has learned.

Over the past weekend, rescuers went out to extinguish dry vegetation in the Grodno region 25 times, BelTA learned from the Grodno Regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Chairman of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee Piotr Parkhomchik has encouraged OAO Brest Electric Lamp Plant (BELZ) to increase output volumes and enhance the competitive ability of its products. A routine conference was held on 18 March to discuss the strategy of future development of the enterprise, BelTA has learned.

Approximately 1,000 tenth-graders from Gomel will participate in the educational project Restart a Heart at Gomel State Medical University, BelTA learned from the university.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Serbia to Belarus Ilina Vukajlović is on a working visit to Brest. One of the key issues is cooperation in healthcare, BelTA has learned.

The Lida Historical and Art Museum displays a special exhibit — a piece of the famous Sikhote-Alin meteorite, which fell to Earth exactly 79 years ago, on 12 February 1947, BelTA has learned.

The museum of Sapieha Palace in Ruzhany has drawn over 330,000 tourists from different countries over the past 15 years, director of the museum Yelena Kubarko told BelTA.