All polling stations opened on time, there are 39 in total, including four closed ones (hospitals and one military unit). "We expect the majority of voters to go to the polling stations between 12:00 and 15:00-16:00," said Nikolay Konevalov.

Goalball is a sport for visually impaired athletes, included in the Paralympic Games program. Five teams are participating in the tournament in Vitebsk - two from Belarus and Russia each, and one from Ukraine. These are the strongest teams in their countries, whose players are part of their national teams.

The stock of local fuel types for the upcoming heating season in the Vitebsk region must be created by July 1. This task was set today at a meeting of the regional executive committee, where the results of the 2012/2013 heating period and tasks for the future heating season were considered, by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets, BELTA correspondent reports.

As of July 24, 20 out of 21 districts in the region, except for Liozno, have started harvesting grain and leguminous crops. By this date, grain and leguminous crops in the region had been harvested from an area of 4.1 thousand hectares, which is 0.8% of the planned area. 13.9 thousand tons of grain have been threshed with an average yield of 34.2 centners per hectare. Last year, by this date, grain and leguminous crops had been harvested from 8.4% of the areas.

From April 9-12, Vitebsk gymnasts, as part of the national team, brilliantly performed at the European Trampoline Championships in Guimarães (Portugal), winning 3 gold, 2 silver, and 8 bronze medals.

In Verkhnedvinsk, the memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War in the Osvia tragedy will be honored, the Belarusian Peace Foundation informed BELTA.

The driver of a DAF truck, who hit an ambulance on the Polotsk-Vitebsk highway, has been charged, reported Inna Gorbacheva, an official representative of the Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk region, to a BELTA correspondent.

Interview with Tatyana Likhacheva, Honored Artist of Belarus, who has been serving the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater for 40 years

On April 6 at 10:00 AM, festive divine services with the participation of the Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk will be held at the Holy Assumption Cathedral in Vitebsk (Krylova St., 7), and on April 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, at the Holy Annunciation Church in Vitebsk (Millennium Square).

The festival of agricultural workers of the Vitebsk region "Dazhynki-2014" will be held in Horadok on September 26-28. This was announced today by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, who took part in the festive line-up at Secondary School No. 1 in Horadok.

Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov is not only a major regional educational and scientific center, but also continues to expand its international ties. The next step in this direction was the first international conference of students, undergraduates, postgraduates, and young scientists "Youth of the 21st Century: Education, Science, Innovations".

In the year of the 70th anniversary of Victory, the Vitebsk region intends to carry out a global reconstruction of the "Breakthrough" memorial complex and renovate the building of the Museum of People's Glory named after Hero of the Soviet Union V.E. Lobanok in Ushachi.