Like the traditional calendar, the souvenir calendar is designed for a year. However, the count of days in it begins not on January 1st, but on September 23, 2012, and ends on September 23, 2013.

The international sports and music festival "VIVA BRASLAU" will be held in Braslav on July 5-6, the Braslav District Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

In the first half of 2012, 22.3% of the Vitebsk region's budget revenues were formed from receipts from small and medium-sized businesses. Over six months, they paid Br964.4 billion in tax payments to the region's budget, including Br733.4 billion from small businesses and Br231 billion from medium-sized businesses. The largest amounts of taxes came from wholesale trade organizations - Br434.1 billion, construction organizations - Br103.1 billion, and retail trade organizations - Br41.2 billion. Small and medium-sized businesses paid Br476.3 billion in profit tax, or 49.4% of the total amount of taxes paid.

Since the beginning of the year, 77 border violators have been detained by servicemen of the Polotsk Border Detachment.

The Adamovich family from the Gluboksky district won the final of the regional review-competition "Best Large Family of Vitebsk Region-2013", reports BELTA correspondent.

The organizers are traditionally the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.