August 1, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Eight waste disposal sites will be built in the Vitebsk region by 2016, the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection informed a BELTA correspondent.

The "Khali-Halo" competition for young pop singers has discovered new "stars" and presented the audience with bright premieres.

Suburban enterprises are ready to participate in the construction of hydroelectric power plants on small rivers. The total capacity of such hydroelectric power plants, built in the initial stages of cooperation, can reach 10 MW. The investment interest of the Moscow region is not limited to the energy sector alone. Flax processing and the development of radio electronics have also attracted the attention of Russian businessmen.

In the evening of September 25, at the Bigosovo station in the Verkhnedvinsk district, servicemen of the Polotsk border detachment, together with customs representatives, discovered 27 bales of clothing and footwear, weighing over 400 kg, hidden from customs clearance in the ventilation shafts of a locomotive in a freight train that arrived from the Republic of Latvia. An investigation is being conducted into this fact.

The investigation into the death of a one-year-old child, a citizen of Russia, in a hotel in Vitebsk is still ongoing. This was announced today at a press conference by Vladimir Shalukhin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

The Consulate of the Republic of Latvia in Vitebsk began accepting documents for obtaining a Schengen visa of the Republic of Poland from March 18, the consulate informed a BELTA correspondent.

The main problem with shared housing construction in Vitebsk is related to delays in commissioning facilities and the quality of work. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Vitebsk region, Georgy Korenko.