An Estonian visa can now be obtained in Vitebsk, the Consulate of the Republic of Latvia in Vitebsk informed BELTA.

Two Russians were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for a robbery attack in a Vitebsk church, Dmitry Orekhva, Deputy Prosecutor of Vitebsk, told a BELTA correspondent.

When developing a plan to prepare the district for the rural workers' festival "Dazhynki", it was decided not to demolish abandoned houses in the villages, but to give those who wish the opportunity to receive housing for free

The Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office considers the problem of educating children in safe street behavior skills to be relevant, noted Veronika Derbeneva, senior prosecutor of the inquiry supervision department of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, in an interview with a BELTA correspondent.

The fairy-tale "team" led by Tsar Saltan arrived in Vitebsk from St. Petersburg for the first time. Now crowds of children are besieging the local history museum – it's not every day that one has the opportunity to chat with a learned cat, chained to an oak tree with a golden chain, to visit the domains of Tsar Saltan, to sit in the hut of a poor fisherman, and to enjoy the beauty and richness of the tent of the real Queen of Shemakha.

In Miory, a large number of guests are expected on September 28-29 for the festival "Cranes and Cranberries of the Miory Region". The ecological forum was held for the first time last autumn and attracted public attention to the unique nature of the region and an unusually beautiful spectacle: a huge number of cranes and other rare migratory birds stop to rest in the territory of the "Yelnya" reserve.

By the end of the year, it is planned to complete the transformation of 12 enterprises of republican and communal property into open joint-stock companies in the Vitebsk region, and in the coming year, to intensify preparations for their privatization.

Dear veterans of the Great Patriotic War! Respected residents of the region! I sincerely congratulate you on the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory! Memories of our people's heroic past live in the hearts of millions. May 9, 1945, went down in history as the day that embodied the feat of the Soviet people in the fight against fascism, their strength of spirit, and faith in Victory. In major battles and in fights on nameless heights, front-line soldiers stood to the death,

The Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research and the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee announce the regional Competition of Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research "BRFFI-Vitebsk-2015" on the following topics:

The Last Bell ceremony in schools of the Vitebsk region will take place on May 30. Festive assemblies on this day will become a significant event in the lives of approximately 16,750 graduates of the region's general education institutions, reported Ivan Shchurok, head of the education department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

The festival is dedicated to mythology and identity. Representatives from Belarus, Russia, China, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Latvia will participate.