During the night of October 2nd, operational officers of the Polotsk Border Detachment, in conjunction with officers from the Polotsk District Department of Internal Affairs, Novopolotsk City Department of Internal Affairs, the State Automobile Inspectorate for the cities of Polotsk, Novopolotsk, and the Polotsk District, the State Automobile Inspectorate of the Verkhnedvinsk District, and the Verkhnedvinsk District Department of Internal Affairs, prevented an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of tobacco products into the Republic of Latvia using railway transport.

Ded Moroz is helping traffic police officers patrol the roads of Vitebsk today, reported Olesya Seregina, head of the agitation and propaganda department of the traffic police administration of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Benefits for those enrolling in pedagogical specialties will contribute to attracting the intellectual elite to the teaching profession. This opinion was expressed by the First Vice-Rector of Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor Vasily Malinovskiy

The number of foreign labor migrants is increasing in the Vitebsk region, reported Tatyana Romashova, head of the citizenship and migration department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

A tourist route along partisan trails will appear in 2015 in the Vitebsk region. This was announced today to journalists by the head of the Belintourist branch of RUP "Centrkurort" Alexey Strelchenko. "Centrkurort" is preparing specialized excursion programs of a military-historical and military-patriotic theme, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Among them is the excursion "Partisan Belarus" in the Vitebsk region.

— At the beginning of February, Youth Law Enforcement Squads Day is celebrated in our country, — said Tatyana Ryk, head of the organizational and program activities department of the regional committee of the BRSM. — There are about 120 such formations operating in the region, uniting over 2,000 young people, and their number is growing every year.

On April 11, 2015, a "direct telephone line" will be held with the residents of the region by the First Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Grebnev Gennady Ivanovich.

About 140 public recreation areas on water bodies in the Vitebsk region have been designated for the current swimming season, and all of them are ready to receive visitors. This was announced by Vyacheslav Kurukin, chief specialist of the department of state control over the protection and use of atmospheric air and water resources of the regional committee for natural resources and environmental protection.

Due to the established abnormally hot weather, the water supply to residents of the Vitebsk region, especially in rural areas, must be under special control. This instruction was given to the housing and communal services today by the first deputy chairman of the regional executive committee, Gennady Grebnev, following the results of a direct line with the region's population.