The Union State TV and Radio will broadcast the opening and closing concerts of "Slavianski Bazaar" live for the first time.

July 10, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. For the first time, the opening and closing ceremonies of the XVIII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" will be broadcast live on the TV channel of the Union State. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the festival's press center. In addition, two concerts of "Slavianski Bazaar" will be broadcast daily on the TV channel on record. The satellite TV channel TRO, founded by the Broadcasting Organization of the Union State, began broadcasting in September 2007. The TV channel is distributed in the largest cable networks of Moscow and throughout the rest of Russia, up to Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It is watched by 20 million viewers. As reported, about 600 representatives of mass media and Internet resources will cover the events of "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". Among the accredited are journalists from Russia, Great Britain, Germany, the USA, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and other countries. The concerts of the festival will be broadcast by Belteлерадиоcompany and the TV channel "Russia". For the first time, Russian viewers will see the performances of the young performers' competition participants in full. In addition, Russians will watch the opening and closing ceremonies of the festival and the days of national cultures - Belarus, Russia and Ukraine - on record. Belarusian viewers will be able to watch the festival extravaganza live - all concerts, except for solo night performances, will be broadcast on the First Channel. -0-