The "Photo Chronicle of the Union State" will be presented in festival Vitebsk

June 30, Minsk /Zhanna Kotlyarova - BELTA/. The "Photo Chronicle of the Union State" will be presented in festival Vitebsk. An exhibition with this title will be one of the events of the XVIII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk," the head of the representative office of the Standing Committee of the Union State in Minsk, Sergey Zabolotets, informed journalists today. The adult festival is held in the year of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, and therefore, during the festival days, there will be many meetings with veterans and laying of flowers at the Eternal Flame. The "Youth for the Union State" campaign and a children's chalk drawing contest will be held. Quizzes will take place on the "History of the Union State" platform, and a meeting with one of the nominees for the Union State Prize in Literature and Art for 2009-2010, Nikolai Cherginets, is planned. It is planned that a creative meeting with all nominees for this prestigious prize will be held. Traditionally, the festival will host a press conference by the State Secretary of the Union State, Pavel Borodin. And on the closing day of the festival, on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Union State, participants of creative programs will be awarded diplomas and commemorative prizes "For Creative Embodiment of the Ideas of Friendship of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia." Sergey Zabolotets said that 24 million 896 thousand Russian rubles have been allocated from the budget of the Union State for the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" festival. The Russian side's share is 9 million 300 thousand rubles, and Belarus's share is 15 million 596 thousand Russian rubles. -0-