The initiative to perform good deeds in honor of their hometown was picked up by the parliament of children and youth of Novopolotsk from Polotsk, which celebrated its 1150th anniversary this year. Students and pedagogical staff of kindergartens, schools, secondary vocational educational institutions, universities, youth, public, volunteer organizations, representatives of enterprises and organizations, etc. are invited to participate in the initiative. More detailed information can be found on the website of the Novopolotsk City Executive Committee. Applications for participation must be submitted to the city education department.

A four-legged rescuer has been enlisted in the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Situations Ministry department, as told to a BELTA correspondent by Pavel Semchenko, senior rescuer and dog handler of the "Vityaz" fire and rescue squad of the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Situations Ministry department.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection has announced the dates for the start of wild berry harvesting in Belarus. Thus, in the Vitebsk region, the collection of lingonberries will begin on August 17 this year.

The official opening of the new building of the "Vidzy" border post, combined with the "Vidzy" border control unit (Braslav district, Vitebsk region), will take place on October 4th.

The deadlines for the investigation into the mass death of deer in the Dokshitsy district have been extended again, the head of the Dokshitsy District Department of Internal Affairs, Maryan Gigola, told a BELTA correspondent today.

A meeting of the regional commission on state border policy issues was held in the Vitebsk region with the participation of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus Dubov A.V. and Advisor to the Prosecutor General Dranitsa A.N.

On March 19, laureate of international competitions, one of the leading Russian guitarists of the new generation, and a lecturer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Anton Baranov, will perform a concert at the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic.

Elections to the local Councils of Deputies of Belarus of the twenty-seventh convocation are scheduled for March 23, 2014. As reported by the press service of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko signed the corresponding decree No. 557 on December 16.

The Vitebsk region has many construction projects, which lays a good prospect for the development of the region.

In the Vitebsk region, 2,000 more foreign citizens have been registered this year compared to the same period in 2013, and a thousand more foreigners have received residence permits. These data were announced by Tatyana Romashova, head of the citizenship and migration department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Regional Executive Committee, during a round table discussion on "Interaction of the Belarusian Red Cross Society with state bodies on providing assistance to detained migrants"

The third (regional) stage of the republican subject Olympiad has concluded, with 1022 students participating. 459 of them were awarded diplomas of various categories.

In Vitebsk, during a joint operation, two citizens of Armenia, born in 1970 and 1981, were detained by operational officers of the Minsk border control unit, a special unit of the border service, with the support of the OMON of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate.

The first LED road signs powered by solar batteries in the Vitebsk region have been installed on the region's roads, the traffic police department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate reported.