As of October 1, overdue debt of the population of the Vitebsk region for housing and communal services amounted to Br3.5 billion, which is 20% less compared to the debt on the same date last year.

Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Chairman of the Committee on Border Policy of the Regional Executive Committee Oleg Matskevich noted that the border is a frontier where there are no trifles, therefore, it is necessary to create decent conditions for military personnel serving on the borders of the Motherland.

For the 130th anniversary of the birth of the Belarusian bard, the theater named after him since 1944 has prepared a program that includes Yanka Kupala, his famous hero Symon-muzykant, and the poet's beloved women. As noted at the theater, the evening of tribute is a new form of communication with the audience. The venue for this event is the theater's drawing-room, which will open its doors for the first time this season.

Belarusians gathered a harvest of awards at the final round of the fifth corporate festival "Fakel" for amateur creative groups and performers of subsidiaries and organizations of OJSC "Gazprom", BelTA correspondent reports.

This was stated a year ago by the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko

A unified list of unused and inefficiently used property owned by the Vitebsk region and its administrative-territorial units is being formed in the region, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Maxim Divak, Deputy Director of the Vitebsk Regional Territorial Fund of State Property "Vitebskoblimushchestvo".

Mobile units are replacing stationary departments. According to statistics, rural residents use postal services less actively than urban residents.

The Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee has approved a set of measures to address socially significant problems of the population, the Ideological Work Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

Two Egyptian fruit bats (also known as Egyptian flying dogs) have settled in the Vitebsk Zoo. Creatures unusual for our latitudes arrived in the regional center from the Leningrad Zoo.

Deputy Prosecutor General of Belarus Alexander Dubov took part in the meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Collegium, dedicated to the work of housing and communal services.

The memory of the heroes who laid down their lives at the altar of Victory must live on for centuries. This was stated at a memorial rally, which preceded the solemn reburial ceremony of the Red Army soldiers who died during the liberation of the city of Vitebsk in 1944, by Gennady Egorov, Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans.

About a hundred exhibits are presented at the school exhibition "Pen. Notebook. Textbook" in the Vitebsk Regional Museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union Minay Filippovich Shmyrev.

Issues of housing and communal services, employment and remuneration, as well as housing legislation, predominated during the direct telephone line with the population with the Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Anatoly Diulin.