On September 14, 2013, a "direct line" with Vladimir Germanovich Novatsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will take place.

"LinpacPackaging", a major manufacturer of plastic packaging and containers from the UK, plans to start producing expanded polystyrene products at a new plant in Orsha by the end of the current year. The investment volume in the project has already reached $5 million, with another €1.1 million expected to be allocated to production development in the near future.

The cost of poultry semi-finished products must be reduced by July 21. In particular, products under the brand name "Ganna".

At night, a 29-year-old specialist from one of Vitebsk enterprises helped the police detain robbers. The man went out to smoke on the porch. Suddenly, a cry for help was heard from the courtyards on Lazo Street. It turned out that two scoundrels had snatched a bag from a pensioner's hands and fled.

Work on the restoration of the dam at the Polotsk Hydroelectric Power Station will begin in early May, Vladimir Komissarov, head of the representative office of JSC "VO "Technopromexport" in Belarus, told a BELTA correspondent.

On December 14, a city fair will be held in Vitebsk on Lenin Street (section from the mini-cafe "Eridan" to the cafe "Aurora") from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The fair will feature processing organizations, producers and farms of the Vitebsk region, the republic's fish farms, as well as the city's trade enterprises.

Despite her advanced age, she is 97, Antonina Akimovna Kruganova is always in touch: she keeps a mobile phone at hand just in case. There isn't a day that goes by without her knowing how her relatives are doing, and they, in turn, do not deprive their beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother of attention.

Today, the district festival "Cherry Festival" starts in Glubokoye, which will last for seven days.

More than 40 graceful birds have settled on an artificial reservoir in the village of Sokolniki near Vitebsk. Local resident Valery Kovalenko counted as many as 43 swans: "I might not have counted them all, because the reservoir is large. And the birds don't stay in one place for long, of course. Imagine: some swans approach people and are not afraid to take bread from their hands."

On July 25 and 26, 2 road traffic accidents occurred in the Vitebsk region, in which 2 people were injured, the agitation and propaganda department of the traffic police of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee reported.