Upon arrival at the scene, emergency services personnel established that a tractor belonging to a private unitary agricultural enterprise, while carrying out field work, had driven into a canal and overturned due to an error by the tractor driver-machinist. As a result, the tractor driver was trapped in the cabin.

Two Vitebsk residents were looking for cars to buy in the regional center, negotiating with their owners about installment payments, providing a receipt as confirmation, concluding a car sale agreement, and then disappearing. At the same time, the "buyers" informed the "sellers" about the postponement of payments due to a number of serious circumstances, gradually ignoring their calls.

Taking the stage at the packed Summer Amphitheater, the maestro of Russian pop music noted that the concert was dedicated to his friends. "I have a lot of friends in Belarus, and I am glad that my second anniversary performance will take place on Vitebsk soil," said the laureate of the special prize of the President of Belarus "Through Art - to Peace and Understanding".

The State Veterinary Service of Belarus urges villagers not to buy compound feeds from commercial entities. This appeal was made today to rural residents by the Chief State Inspector of the Vitebsk Region, Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine and State Veterinary Inspection of the Committee for Agriculture and Food of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kozak.

At a press conference, the head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, Andrey Belyaninov, noted that customs officers have experience of joint activities during large-scale international competitions, including the 2012 European Football Championship.

The Republican patriotic campaign will take place in every corner of the country, including in the Dvina region. A joint project of the BRSM and BRPO, dedicated to Victory Day, started on April 30 in Minsk. The symbol of the campaign is a red star with the inscription "Thank you for the Victory!". With it, young people will decorate the doors of the homes of Great Patriotic War veterans.

Information on environmental impact assessment objects in a transboundary context, planned for construction in foreign countries

About 80 schoolchildren from the Gluboksky, Postavy and Sharkovshchina districts of the Vitebsk region took part in the work of the school environmental camp in the village of Germanovichi, Sharkovshchina district (Vitebsk region).

According to the centralized procurement plan of the Ministry of Health for the Vitebsk region, 9 X-ray machines (including 2 pulmonscans), an angiography complex, and a hemodialysis system have already been purchased and are actually located in the region. They have been distributed among medical institutions. The most expensive acquisition is an angiography complex manufactured by Toshiba for the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital, with a cost of Br16.5 billion.

The summing up of the patchwork competition festival "Zdravnevskaya Palitra - 2013" will take place today in Vitebsk, the correspondent of BELTA was informed by the Vitebsk Regional Methodical Center of Folk Art.

A mobile mini-clinic has appeared at the regional diagnostic center. Modern expensive equipment is installed in a huge van based on a MAZ vehicle chassis.

Addressing the new recruits, the commander of the 103rd Guards Mobile Brigade, Colonel Alexander Kulakevich, said that today they have become full-fledged defenders of the Motherland, and wished them health, willpower, courage, and bravery.

The most prominent local historian of Vitebsk, Alexey Sapunov, published the book "The Western Dvina River" in Vitebsk in 1893, with a detailed description of the main waterway of the Vitebsk region. What life has the ancient river lived? The local historian's book provides a unique opportunity to compare the river's "past" with its current state at the beginning of the 21st century.

"Friendship Bench of Polotsk and Friedrichshafen" will appear in the Belarusian city in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of partnership relations between the settlements of Belarus and Germany. The new urban environment object will be opened in Polotsk on August 28.

On August 1, 2015, a "direct telephone line" will be held with the residents of the region by the Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Matskevich Oleg Sergeevich.