The head of the Vitebsk Customs, Gennady Puchkov, has been approved as the chairman of the council. The council also includes representatives from about 15 different economic entities in the region: the administration of the "Vitebsk" free economic zone, SOOO "Marko", Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Farm, OJSC "Naftan", the Vitebsk Regional Employers' Union, and others.

The permanent film center of the festival is the Cinema House - the oldest cinema in Vitebsk and in Belarus, located in the historical center of the city in a building that is an architectural monument of the late 19th-20th centuries. This year, the film project includes five feature films, which will be presented by their creators - directors or actors.

The electronic declaration of imports in Belarus is expected to reach about 90% by the end of 2013. This forecast was announced to journalists by the Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus, Alexander Shpilevsky, after the seventh meeting of the Joint Collegium of Customs Services of the Customs Union member states, BELTA correspondent reports.

Dear veterans and soldiers of the Armed Forces, residents of the Vitebsk region! I sincerely congratulate you on the Defender of the Fatherland Day and the 95th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus!

A new stage of cultural exchange will be implemented during the traditional November Days of Latvia in Vitebsk under the project LLB-1-072 "Daugavpils and Vitebsk: Cultural Cooperation and Development" of the Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus Cross-border Cooperation Programme. The project organizers have planned a series of events.

More than Br50 billion will be invested this year in the modernization of construction industry enterprises in the Vitebsk region. This was announced at the opening of the international specialized exhibition "Construction Industry. Innovations in Construction - 2013" by Viktor Medvedsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Construction of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

On the initiative of the Public Council for promoting the development of the joint property management system under the Housing and Communal Services Department, the competition "Best Chairman of the Owners' Association in the Vitebsk Region" has been announced.