Chairman of the regional executive committee Alexander Kosinets, who came to congratulate the city residents, called the opening of an important social facility a wonderful Christmas and New Year gift.

On March 29, 2014, a "direct line" with Anatoly Vladimirovich Diulin, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will be held.

Difficult teenagers from the Polotsk district will take part in the project "From Virtuality to Reality" on August 17, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the Polotsk District Executive Committee reported.

Recently, a resident of Orsha brought unfeathered chicks to the zoo. He found the helpless little ones in the forest. Apparently, the owl's nest was overturned during a hurricane, and the crumbs ended up on the ground.

The awarding of the honorary title "Person of the Year of Vitebsk Region" has been held in the region since 2009 with the aim of encouraging merits in promoting the implementation of the social and economic policy of the state and local government bodies, and in implementing measures to ensure legality and law and order.

The New Year's charity event "Our Children" will be held in the region from December 12, 2014, to January 11, 2015. During the event, representatives of the regional executive committee and its structural divisions, district and city executive committees, administrations of districts of the regional center, and deputies will visit children's boarding institutions, foster and adoptive families, family-type children's homes, families raising children with disabilities, centers for correctional and developmental education and rehabilitation, and children's hospitals.

The Vitebsk region hosted the regional ecological festival "Let Life Live!", which was attended by 35 creative groups from general secondary and supplementary education institutions.