A specialized cabinet for treating patients with diabetic foot syndrome has been established at the city polyclinic. It is equipped with modern diagnostic equipment.

In the Vitebsk region, 118 corruption offenses were detected in January-March, which is 8.3% more compared to the same period last year, Vasily Pashkovsky, head of the anti-corruption and organized crime department of the Vitebsk region prosecutor's office, told a BELTA correspondent.

The problems, solutions, and development prospects of the entrepreneurial community are reflected in the "National Business Platform of Belarus – 2014", adopted at the Assembly of Business Circles in Minsk.

The new border post building is combined with the "Urbany" border control unit of the Polotsk Border Detachment. On the territory, an administrative building, a dormitory for personnel, garages for service vehicles, a boiler house running on local fuels, two artesian wells, a wastewater treatment plant, a technical maintenance and repair station for equipment, a kennel for service animals, a fuel storage warehouse, a diesel generator, and a sewage pumping station have been erected.

As of September 6, a total of 456.4 thousand hectares have been harvested in the region, or 98% of the planned area. Farmers have harvested all grain crops, with only a small amount of legumes, buckwheat, and millet remaining to be harvested, which require a few more days to ripen. Farmers intend to complete this work in the near future.

According to Marina Romanovskaya, the festival's consistently vibrant program and prestige have allowed IFMC to expand beyond Vitebsk this year – evenings of contemporary choreography will be presented in Minsk (November 22 at the "Minsk" Concert Hall and November 28 at the National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre), Molodechno (November 22), Bobruisk (November 23), and Grodno (November 26).

More than half of the areas allocated for these crops have been sown in Beshenkovichi and Glubokoe districts. If the region already accounts for a third of the spring grain acreage, then the farmers of Braslav, Liozno, Miory, Postavy, Senno, Sharkovshchina, and Shumilino districts are lagging far behind the leaders.

The Belarusian Red Cross Society (BRCS) intends to fully utilize the opportunities of the state social order mechanism (SSO) in 2014. This was stated by the organization's Secretary General, Viktor Kolbanov, in response to a question from a BELTA correspondent. In Vitebsk, he is participating in a meeting of the expanded presidium on the results of the Vitebsk regional organization of the BRCS for 2012.

Vitebsk athlete Yana Maksimova was the standout performer for the Belarusian team at the European Combined Events Team Cup in Toruń, Poland. Following the competition, our National team secured fourth place.

On September 11, 2013, from 10:00 to 12:00, the Deputy Director of the "Vitebsk State Registration and Land Cadastre Agency" RUP, Kirill Vasilievich Marutko, will hold a "direct telephone line"

– For next year, the decision is as follows: out of 2.5 million square meters of housing planned for construction with state support, half will be built for beneficiaries. The other half, considering the shortage of cheap credit resources, will be supported by the state by subsidizing bank interest rates by half of the refinancing rate. The remainder will be paid by the citizen. The average interest rate for such loans is expected to be 15-16% per annum.