According to the governor, a good harvest has grown in the region this year. The main task of the rural workers is to gather it within optimal deadlines. In pursuit of this goal, as well as bonuses for achievements provided for front-runners, many forget about quality. As a result, a significant portion of the harvest is lost for various reasons.

"Voters are participating quite actively in the electoral process. It can be said that the elections in the Republic of Belarus have taken place," said Nikolai Lozovik.

As they say, we are happy with what we have. This well-known proverb is very applicable today to the realities of the Belarusian economy, which is focused on import substitution and active use of its own resources. It's high time to finally get used to the fact that we don't have oil and gas, but we do have alternative energy sources, gifted by nature, and minds capable of figuring out how to put these resources into circulation.

For many years, residents of the district have appealed to the authorities with a request to verify information that near the village of Koptevichi there is a mass execution site of civilians. According to eyewitness accounts, during the occupation, fascists exterminated people of different nationalities there: Belarusians, Poles, Jews, and Roma.

In Orsha, the first rental apartments will be built in 2015, the architecture and construction committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee reported.

In 2012, tax authorities in the Vitebsk region seized Br2.7 billion worth of excisable goods from illegal circulation, the press center of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region informed a BELTA correspondent.

Ticket sales for the "Slavianski Bazaar" events, which will take place on the stage of the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre of Drama, in the "Vitebsk" Concert Hall, and the Regional Philharmonic, begin today. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the "Vitebsk" Cultural Center.

Inna Krivko, head chef at OAO «Basis-Novopolotsk», became the winner of the republican culinary art and service competition, where 30 of the best industry specialists competed.

The 6th partnership forum of entrepreneurs from the border regions of Russia – Latvia – Estonia – Belarus will be held in the district center on September 12.

The regional festival of theatrical art for children with psychophysical development disabilities "Zazerkalye-2014" will be held from December 12 to 14 at the Educational Institution "Begomlskaya Auxiliary Boarding School for Orphans" of Dokshitsy District, Vitebsk Region.

On October 14, 2013, Alexander Petrovich Solodkov, a member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the fifth convocation, Rector of Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, tragically died.

OJSC "Amkodor" – the management company of the holding – will be engaged in the modernization and creation of new production facilities at OJSC "Kokhanovsky Excavator Plant" as the new and main owner, who is ready to invest at least 50 billion rubles in the development of the enterprise within the next three years.

In his novel, Mikhail Konon reflected a huge layer of life of the khutars of the Western regions of Belarus: he tried to show how mass collectivization, dispossession of kulaks, peasant evictions, their lives during the German occupation and the post-war period actually took place.

Roman Knyrev from Orsha brought home a gold medal and a Diploma of the 1st degree from the competition of scientific and technical creativity of students of the Union State "Talents of the 21st Century" held in St. Petersburg. He represented the Vitebsk region at the competition as part of a team.

Currently, the labor market of the Vitebsk region is experiencing an increase in public appeals to the employment service for assistance in employment, registration as unemployed, and a decrease in the number of vacancies. The adoption of Decree No. 3 "On the Prevention of Social Dependency" has also contributed to this to a considerable extent.