"Vitbichi" met with the head of the land management service of the city executive committee, Tatyana Guzikova, to get answers to questions frequently asked by citizens.

In particular, the order of entry (admission), temporary stay and movement in the border zone. Citizens of the Republic of Belarus, foreign citizens and stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Belarus, who have not reached the age of 14, when entering, staying and moving in the border zone, will be required to have with them a birth certificate or document

Over the past two years, a tremendous amount of work has been done in Belarus to develop cardiac surgery services, in particular, cardiac surgery departments have been established in all regional hospitals. In 2009, about 500 heart surgeries were performed, but this is just the beginning, believes Yuri Ostrovsky, Head of the Heart Surgery Laboratory at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center "Cardiology", Chief Freelance Cardiac Surgeon of the Ministry of Health of Belarus, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. "In the future, we should reach a level of up to 7,000 operations per year, which will allow us to reduce the patient waiting list to a minimum – to three months," he believes.

The organizers of the international technical assistance project "Support for Home-Based Self-Employment" within the Latvia – Lithuania – Belarus Cross-border Cooperation Programme have launched an international web platform for promoting handmade goods from residents of border regions.

The Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee has developed a set of measures to achieve the projected indicators of socio-economic development of the region for the first half of 2009, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Svyatoslav Zarovsky, First Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee's Economics Committee. The growth rate of industrial production at comparable prices in January-June of the current year compared to the same period last year should be 113.5%. Specific tasks have been set for enterprises to meet this indicator. In particular, Naftan OJSC will have to additionally produce over 350 thousand tons of technical solvent and produce 390 thousand tons of low-sulfur marine fuel.

On June 12, around noon, Orsha rescuers received a report from the duty officer of the Baran police department about the discovery of a WWII shell in the Adrov River near the village of Zabolotye, Zabolotsky rural council, Orsha district.