An exhibition of Latvian artists has opened in Vitebsk, the Vitebsk Center for Contemporary Art informed a BELTA correspondent.

July 31, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. In the Vitebsk region, 211 organizations have implemented an occupational health and safety management system in accordance with STB 18001-2009 since the beginning of the year, the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

The undisputed leader of the II National Theatre Award was the play "The Queen of Spades" by the Grodno Regional Puppet Theatre – four top awards!

Representatives of regional, district, and city organizations of the Belarusian Peace Foundation traditionally present the "Child of Peace" certificate to the parents of newborns who were born on the International Day of Peace, as well as monetary prizes from the Peace Foundation's funds. This year, the largest number of certificates was awarded to Vitebsk.

The issue of modernizing industrial enterprises, which the head of state raised at a meeting on the economy's performance for the past period of 2012, assessment of the year's results, and draft forecasts, budget, and monetary policy for 2013, is particularly relevant for the Vitebsk region. Approximately 90% of the fixed assets of industrial enterprises are worn out or obsolete.

Adepts of Shotokan Karate-do always worthily represent Belarus at various international competitions. Last year, at the World Championship in Poland, our karatekas took second place in the overall team standings. This time, on March 28-29, the best athletes from 24 clubs of the Belarusian Shotokan Karate-do Federation – and this is about two hundred participants from Minsk and all regions of our country, except for Gomel region – gathered in our city for the XXIII Open Championship of the Republic of Belarus and the III Republican competitions "Blue-eyed Belarus".

The Vitebsk region has received a grant under the Federal Government of Germany's program to support Belarus for the development of agroecotourism. This was announced by Oleg Kravchuk, coordinator of the project "Development of agroecotourism as one of the main directions of sustainable development of the Vitebsk region's territories" and consultant of the I. Rau Minsk International Educational Center.

In 2012, servicemen of the Polotsk border guard detachment, in cooperation with other structures, seized goods and materials worth a total of almost Br5.9 billion, Denis Glebko, assistant head of the Polotsk border guard detachment, told a BELTA correspondent.

Electricity supply in weather-affected settlements of the Vitebsk region has been restored, BELTA correspondent was informed by RUP "Vitebskenergo".

The ophthalmology department of the Novopolotsk Central City Hospital has recently been equipped with an operating ophthalmic microscope and a phacoemulsifier.

A combined delegation from Belarus will travel for the relic. It will consist of 40 people – representatives of all Belarusian cadet schools, students of the lyceum at the Gomel Engineering Institute of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, clergy, and members of the Public Association "Belarusian Union of Suvorovites and Cadets".

Our renowned avant-garde artist, Honored Artist of Belarus, and Great Patriotic War veteran Alexander Solovyov donated 32 works to the Art Museum.

On September 13, 2014, a "direct line" with Oleg Sergeevich Matskevich, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will be held.

The largest amount of funds has been invested in the preparation of stationary children's health resorts in the region for the summer season over the past five years, and the largest volume of work has been done, reported Elena Andreykova, head of the regional department of the Republican Center for Health Improvement and Sanatorium-Resort Treatment of the Population.