The solemn opening ceremony of the memorial sign, located near the building of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, was attended by the Prosecutor General of Belarus Alexander Konyuk, the Prosecutor of the Pskov Region Timur Kebekov, employees of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, veterans of the prosecutor's office, and representatives of government authorities.

As of September 11, a total of 8.2 thousand hectares of corn have been harvested in the region, or 8.6% of the cultivated area. The gross yield of green mass, including that used for fodder, reached 212.7 thousand tons with an average yield of 259.5 centners per hectare.

The main task of the agro-industrial complex of the Vitebsk region in 2013 is to increase the efficiency of agricultural production, create large-scale, low-cost biotechnological complexes with a closed production cycle.

A district environmental festival was held in Senno, the Vitebsk Regional Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union informed a BELTA correspondent.

Since February, a commission has been working in the region to study problematic issues in the housing and communal services of the region. Its composition includes employees of the Committee of State Control, as well as representatives of regional management bodies, local authorities, and enterprise managers.

A native of Novopolotsk, born in 1989, while working as an accountant at one of the boarding schools in the Polotsk district, embezzled funds from the educational institution for over three years.

One of the participants in the international business conference held in Vitebsk as part of the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival was Vladimir Shitko, Deputy Chairman of the Standing Commission on Budget and Finance of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

A Memorandum of Intent between the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus on cooperation issues during the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus, aimed at ensuring favorable conditions for the movement of goods and the crossing of the state border by individuals, was signed today in Novopolotsk, BELTA correspondent reports.

At the twenty-ninth extraordinary session of the Regional Council of Deputies of the 26th convocation, held on Tuesday, three issues related to the financing of specific programs or the redistribution of budget flows were considered.

The Day of Israeli Culture was held in Vitebsk. The event was organized by the Israeli Cultural Center at the Embassy of Israel in Belarus, which has been cooperating with Vitebsk for a long time and implements numerous cultural and educational projects here.

The Vitebsk Industrial-Pedagogical College organized the "Warmth of Our Hands - to Veterans" campaign to provide free hairdressing services to this category of the population, reported Galina Frantseva, Chairperson of the Vitebsk City Organization of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans.