New road signs indicating accident blackspots have been developed in Belarus.

A monument to the folk music festival will be unveiled in Postavy during the XVI International Folk Music Festival "Zvinyats' tsymbaly i harmonik", which begins today in Postavy. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Postavy District Executive Committee.

A nursery-kindergarten in the "Medcenter" microdistrict in Vitebsk is planned to open in December, Igor Kiryutenko, head of the education, sports and tourism department of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent.

Seven resource centers for training skilled workers are planned to be opened by September 1, 2013, in the Vitebsk region, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Sergey Kovalenko, Deputy Head of the Education Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Representatives of educational and sports institutions from 16 regions of the Vitebsk region took part in the competition. The jury reviewed over 500 works (films, presentations, poems, essays, works of fine and decorative arts, and musical creativity).

On the eve of this significant event, we visited the site with the construction supervisor – the director of the Vitebsk Regional School of Higher Sports Skills, Igor Kanygin.

The share of local types of fuel (LTF) in the housing and communal services system of the Vitebsk region will exceed 67% in 2013. These parameters are laid down in the long-term subprogram "Small Energy of Vitebsk Region", the BELTA correspondent was informed by the department of energy and fuel of the regional executive committee.

Sergey Shirkevich is a well-known figure in his native Orsha. This extraordinary person is respected, and his athletic achievements are held up as an example to aspiring athletes in Vitebsk, Minsk, and Moscow. And there is indeed something to admire.

We invite you to take part in the sports and arts festival "Vitebsk Ski Track – 2015", which will be held on February 21, 2015, at the ski and roller ski track in Gorodok.

The start of joint pre-holiday charity events by the BRSM and BRPO, as well as the Vitebsk region branch of the Belarusian Red Cross Society, was given today during the first regional rally of volunteer detachments.

Almost 4,000 trees and 75,000 flowers will be planted in Polotsk this season as part of an initiative supported by European partners. At a meeting of the Polotsk branch of the Vitebsk Regional Employers' Union, they discussed how to tackle the task through joint efforts.

During the inspection, employees of the State Control Committee, together with the Financial Investigations Department of the Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate, established that on the territory of the Postavy district, in the former military town of Teshelovo village, former mine-type missile launchers were opened and subsequently partially dismantled. Protective caps were destroyed, and metal structures were removed, which were sold as ferrous metal scrap to the Vitebskvtormet enterprise.

On August 29, 2015, a "hotline" will be held with the residents of the region by the Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Belous Vladimir Nikolaevich.