Although the official opening of the festival will take place on July 12, the railway intends to send a train on its way on the day of the first concert – July 10. The train will depart from Minsk at 13:00, and at 16:35 its passengers will already be at the Vitebsk station. It will be possible to leave the festival capital for the official capital at 1:00 AM. The train will arrive at Minsk station at 5:24 AM. Ticket prices are set in accordance with domestic tariffs. The train has both unreserved and compartment carriages. Initially, the train is planned to have 10 carriages, but their number may be increased upon demand.

August 2, Vitebsk /Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. The Chashniki District Court has accepted for consideration a report on an administrative offense regarding the cruel treatment of cormorant chicks and has scheduled the first hearing for August 10, the court informed a BELTA correspondent.

The funds will be directed towards the construction of water supply and sewerage facilities in various regions of the oblast.

Br1 billion will be allocated for the installation of traffic light facilities in Vitebsk in 2013, the traffic police department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate informed a BELTA correspondent.

On October 26, 2013, a "direct line" will be held by Viktor Mikhailovich Khatenko, Head of the Department of Energy and Fuel of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, on issues of the fuel and energy complex.

Last year, students of Secondary School No. 20 in Orsha were given a unique opportunity to study German as part of the "Schools: Partners for the Future" initiative. This is the fifth educational institution in the republic to sign a cooperation agreement with the Goethe-Institut.

Br150 billion in budget funds will be directed towards the development of the Tolochin district until 2016. This was announced today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee by its chairman, Alexander Kosinets, according to a BELTA correspondent.

6324.4 billion rubles are allocated for its implementation. Of this amount, 6292.4 billion comes from the republican budget (including 400 billion from the President's reserve fund and 710.5 billion from the state targeted budget fund for national development).

Dear veterans of the Great Patriotic War! Respected residents of the region! I sincerely congratulate you on Victory Day! The 9th of May, 1945, has forever entered the history of the peoples of the world as a holiday embodying the unparalleled feat of the Soviet people in the fight against fascism.

Specialists have not identified any deviations from standards in open water bodies of the Vitebsk region. All beach areas, as reported by Vladimir Sinkevich, Chief Physician of the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Public Health, have been inspected by specialists by the beginning of the swimming season.

All ten sets, presented to the jury and the public by Tamara Volodko, were sold out immediately after the show.

"Black diggers" who had amassed a cache of ammunition have been detained in Vitebsk, the information and public relations department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate reported.