The Board of the National Bank has decided to increase the refinancing rate from 18% to 20% per annum from July 13, 2011, the department noted. This measure is implemented as part of a consistent interest rate policy aimed at gradually increasing the overall level of interest rates in the economy in order to help curb inflation and stimulate savings processes in the country.

Every year, the Kokhanovo Professional Lyceum graduates up to 100 specialists – machine operators, repair fitters, and sewing machine operators. Their knowledge and skills acquired at the educational institution are in high demand in production. And this year, for the first time, 50 excavating machine operators will graduate.

But the matter is not only in the first performance of the world-renowned choir at the Vitebsk forum. For the sake of "Slavianski Bazaar", the artists of the ensemble took a risky experiment. As the artistic director and director of the choir, People's Artist of Russia Alexandra Permyakova, told journalists, for the first time in its 100-year history, it will present a joint program with pop stars on the stage of the Summer Amphitheater. And for the first time, the two-hour program will consist entirely of Russian folk songs, with not a single original composition performed. "This concert is completely uncharacteristic for the Pyatnitsky Choir, we are interested in how the audience will receive it," noted Alexandra Permyakova.

July 10, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. A cache of ammunition was discovered in the Liozno district, a BELTA correspondent was informed by military unit No. 5524 of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

According to the acting minister, the first batch of butter weighing 90 tons has already been shipped. A total of 720 tons of this product will be sent to Venezuela.

For the 9 months of this year, products with deep processing were exported for $3.3 million, compared to $1.9 million for the same period last year. The share of these products in the total export volume was about 36%, while in January-September 2011 it was 13% respectively.

Limited Liability Company "Production Association "Energokomplekt" increased its export share by 4 times in January-October of the current year compared to the same period in 2011, the enterprise informed a BELTA correspondent.

The Citizenship and Migration Units of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department will operate in an enhanced mode during the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival.

The scheme for the optimal structure of sown areas for the Vitebsk region for 2014 has been approved by the government of Belarus. This was reported to BELTA by the press service of the government.