The Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, has set the task of opening rhythmic financing for an important social facility and commissioning it by the end of the year. Construction is in full swing: the general contractor, construction and installation trust No. 22 of Polotsk, has already organized work in two shifts.

August 2, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Paratroopers from Russia and Ukraine are celebrating their professional holiday in Vitebsk. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the 103rd Guards Separate Mobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, on the basis of which the main city festive events dedicated to the Day of Paratroopers and Special Operations Forces are taking place today.

Chairman of the Regional Control Committee Vasily Maksimov noted that Br3.2 billion of budget funds were used for the development of rural services in 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.

According to Alexander Kosinets, as a result of the work carried out by the healthcare department, the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, the regional Emergency Situations Ministry department, and other interested agencies, a positive trend in key medical and demographic indicators has been achieved in the region. Thus, mortality has decreased in all age categories, a positive trend in the birth rate is maintained, and the rate of natural population decline is slowing down. At the same time, the ongoing aging of the population and the deaths of working-age residents from external causes negatively affect the demographic situation in the region.

All children in a socially dangerous situation will be checked in the Vitebsk region. This instruction was given today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee by its chairman, Alexander Kosinets, to the heads of the regional departments of education, internal affairs, and the prosecutor's office, reports BELTA correspondent.