Extended sales fairs for school supplies will be held in the Vitebsk region on August 16 and 23, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Department of Trade and Services reported.

From April 7 to 11, 2014, the HANNOVERMESSE 2014 Industrial Fair will be held in Hanover (Germany) – the world's No. 1 industrial and technological exhibition, a global platform for the promotion of industrial technologies, innovations, and investments, covering almost all manufacturing sectors of the economy – from metallurgy and energy to IT solutions and investments.

The issue of combating parasitism, which is currently being actively discussed in Belarus, has left no one indifferent. Some advocate for the introduction of the strictest penalties for those who are accustomed to living off the state. Others believe that these are anachronistic methods of upbringing, unacceptable in modern society. But while heated debates are underway, those whose lifestyles have caused so much concern are reflecting and taking decisive action, namely, searching for employment options.

Tens of thousands of counterfeit dollars were seized by law enforcement officers from a resident of Vitebsk, who had previously been prosecuted for human trafficking and drug dealing.

A psychiatrist-narcologist from a healthcare institution in the Vitebsk region lost two cars for drunk driving, reported Sergey Urbanovich, senior assistant to the Vitebsk prosecutor.

Together with partners from Latvia and Lithuania, the Councils of Deputies of Braslav, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoye, Miory, and Postavy districts joined a voluntary association - Euroregion "Lake Land", within which the main TACIS projects were implemented. Belarusian partners attracted over 700 thousand euros for their implementation.

The State Automobile Inspectorate of the Vitebsk region has begun using payment terminals to simplify and speed up the procedure for paying fines using bank cards, reported the acting head of the traffic police department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate, Alexander Samul.

The personnel Monday with the chairman of the regional executive committee is like a lesson for those invited for an interview, where the mistakes of some managers are analyzed in detail, lessons are learned from the examples of experienced managers, and clear tasks are set for each enterprise.

A resident of the Vitebsk district was sentenced to 16 years for the murder of his mother. He first attempted to kill her in 2000. The tragedy occurred on Svyataya Street in the village of Voytovo, Vitebsk district. The 86-year-old woman and her 57-year-old son had not lived together for a long time, but were in constant conflict.

September 28, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill believes that Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk is worthy to become the namesake of Belarus. He expressed this point of view, answering a seminarian's question at a meeting with youth in Vitebsk, BelTA correspondent reports. More than 800 years have passed, and people remember her good deeds and venerate her relics. Personalities like Alexander Nevsky, Yaroslav the Wise, and Euphrosyne of Polotsk are worthy of becoming heroes, the Patriarch is confident. "Pragmatic politicians and tyrants like Ivan the Terrible cannot be heroes of the country," he said.