On New Year's Eve in Vitebsk, entry to Victory Square will be through checkpoints with security checks.

A fifth-grader from Orsha, along with his grandparents, creates real masterpieces of amateur cinema. The correspondent of "Zvyazda" visited the creative family and participated in the filming of a cartoon and a popular science film.

According to Ivan Fedorov, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Committee for Agriculture and Food, agricultural enterprises in the Vitebsk region have never started spring sowing in March throughout history. Specialists analyzed the reports and established that the earliest date for machinery to enter the fields was April 7-10.

On August 14, 2014, the Zarasai Regional Museum hosted the opening of an exhibition of works by Y. Pen from the collections of the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. This was the first such exhibition in the artist's homeland and in Lithuania.

The busy season has begun for the festival accreditation service. This is where all participants and guests, including famous artists and technical staff, turn first. As explained by the "Slavianski Bazaar" directorate, Muscovites involved in the installation of the Summer Amphitheatre stage and Russian television workers were the first to receive accreditation.

In Vitebsk, it is planned to put in order the military memorial on Uspenskaya Hill, where Hero of the Soviet Union Minay Shmyrev is buried, by May 9. This initiative of the regional trade union association was announced today by its chairman Ivan Vozmitel during an expanded meeting of the presidium of the regional council of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans.

The fully robotic farm of the branch of agricultural enterprise "MazolovoGaz" of the enterprise "Vitebskgaz" will allow the farm to increase labor productivity and product quality, reduce costs and the influence of the human factor. It houses 400 cows, half of which are a milking herd. All cows are of the Holstein breed, some of them produce 60 liters of milk per day. Thanks to the presence of a prophylaxis ward under one roof, it was possible to organize a closed cycle of milk and meat production.

The number of fires and ignitions in the ecosystems of the Vitebsk region since the beginning of the year has almost doubled compared to the same period in 2014, reported Alexander Yarmosh, acting head of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.