Selflessly helping people is a joy, Vitaly Kulpekscha, director of the religious mission "Charitable Catholic Society "Caritas" of the Vitebsk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus, admitted in an interview with a BELTA correspondent.

An exhibition of paintings, art objects, and installations by members of the Vitebsk creative association "Kvadrat" - Galina and Vasily Vasiliev, Alexander Malei, Alexander Dosuzhev, Tatiana Makdetsova, Alexander Slepov, as well as Minsk suprematists Anastasia Goncharova and Vladimir Makarkov - has opened at the regional museum of local lore.

On July 24, a woman went to the forest for mushrooms with her son, born in 2009. Around noon, the mother noticed that her son was lost. The boy did not respond, and the woman could not find the child on her own. Then, police officers, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, servicemen of the Polotsk Border Detachment were sent to search for the boy. Employees of the Braslav Lakes National Park, as well as local residents, were also looking for the boy – a total of one hundred people, four units of equipment, and two service dogs.

In the Brest region, 27.5% of voters have already cast their ballots, in the Vitebsk region - 31.2%, in the Gomel region - 27.8%, in the Grodno region - 27.1%, in the Minsk region - 26%, in the Mogilev region - 30.5%, in Minsk - 24.7%.

During control measures carried out by the tax inspectorates of the Vitebsk region in January-October 2012, 462 violations of legislation regulating the production and circulation of excisable goods were identified. 8.6 thousand liters of alcoholic, non-food alcohol-containing products, 8.8 million pieces of tobacco products, 1.4 thousand liters of petroleum products, 948 liters of malt beer, and 9.5 thousand liters of other excisable goods were seized from illegal circulation. Excisable goods worth Br1.5 billion were converted to state revenue.

The IV open regional rhythmic gymnastics tournament, dedicated to the memory of the honored coach of the Republic of Belarus in rhythmic gymnastics Nina Andreeva, was held at the Vitebsk Central Sports Complex.

The student forum promotes friendship and mutual enrichment among the youth of Slavic peoples. This opinion was expressed today by the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the I International Student Slavic Forum, Vladimir Terentyev.