BBC journalists plan to report on the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" from the scene

July 6, Minsk / Darya Petrovich - BELTA /. Journalists from the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) intend to cover the events of the XVIII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". As reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Department of Print Media and External Relations of the Ministry of Information of Belarus, representatives of the British Broadcasting Corporation have been accredited to this festival of arts for the first time. In total, festival Vitebsk expects the arrival of about 600 representatives from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Great Britain, the USA, Germany, China, and Macedonia. Traditionally, the team of Belarusian journalists will be the largest. The writing fraternity will be represented by more than 70 republican and regional periodicals, leading national TV and radio channels, and news agencies. The Belarusian Telegraph Agency will provide a complete picture of the festival events. Daily diaries from Vitebsk will be broadcast on the channels of Belteleradiocompany, ONT, STV. Festival stories will be "drawn" by the newspapers "Sovetskaya Belorussiya", "Zvyazda", "Respublika", "Literature and Art" and others, whose correspondents are accredited to the event. Special issues of "Kultura" and "Narodnaya Gazeta", dedicated to "Slavianski Bazaar", will be released during the festival of arts. Russian media are represented by leading central and regional publications and TV and radio companies, including "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Izvestia", "Literaturnaya Gazeta", "Trud", the ITAR-TASS news agency, the "Russia" TV channel, and many others. Correspondents of the media of the Union State will work at the festival: the magazine "Soyuznoe Gosudarstvo", the newspaper "Soyuznoe Veche", the Television and Radio Broadcasting Organization of the Union. -0-