A specially created interdepartmental working group monitors the timely storage of equipment in agricultural enterprises, ensuring its preservation, maintaining the proper condition of machine yards, and the presence of checkpoints within them. The issues of landscaping machine yards are under special control.

Among the foreign short-term observers will also be members of the OSCE/ODIHR election observation mission. More than 4,000 national observers intend to monitor the voting process. Thus, on average, there will be more than four observers per polling station.

"Tsyaroshka's Wedding" will traditionally be celebrated in the Lepel district of the Vitebsk region on the eve of Christmas and Kolyady, Olga Makhonenko, coordinator of the regional branch of the public association "Rest in the Village", told a BELTA correspondent.

The Vitebsk region police urge drivers to use parking lots and parking spaces, BelTA reports, citing the official website of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz will hold a solemn service for the consecration of the Holy Spirit Church in Vitebsk today, the Vitebsk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus informed a BELTA correspondent.

The regional New Year's tree is the main event of the "Our Children" charity campaign in the Vitebsk region. On December 27, the celebration brought together a thousand boys and girls from all districts and cities of the Dvina region at the "Vitebsk" Concert Hall.

In the Vitebsk region, 3,215 deputies have been elected to 224 councils of various levels, the regional election commission reported. The majority of deputies are non-partisan, with only 35 people being party members. Representatives have been included in the local legislative bodies.

For the tenth time, the international Catholic festival of Christian films and television programs Magnificat will be held in Belarus. From August 24 to 28, 43 films from 16 countries will be shown in Minsk and Glubokoye.

In Vitebsk, at the site near the Vitebsk Concert Hall, a specialized fair-sale "Fish of Belarus" will be held on October 5 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

"May we call you Mom and Dad, because our parents abandoned us," were the words Anna and Anatoly Kotov heard from sisters Dasha and Yulia when they took them in for upbringing.

This year would have marked the 70th birthday of Alexander Dosuzhev, who was born in the victorious year of 1945. From childhood, he dreamed of becoming an artist and dedicated his entire life to the world of colors. He worked in easel painting, graphics, created collages, spatial objects, and installations.

Issues of transforming the museums of outstanding artists Marc Chagall and Ilya Repin into educational centers were discussed today in Vitebsk at a meeting between the State Secretary of the Union State, Grigory Rapota, and the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Nikolai Sherstnev.