In the first quarter, four such houses were commissioned with a total area of about 22 thousand sq.m. Another long-delayed construction project, whose completion deadline expired in November 2013, was put into operation at the end of April.

The residence of Ded Moroz (Father Frost) will appear in the Polotsk district, the press service of the Polotsk District Executive Committee reported.

The Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk Region has completed the investigation of a criminal case against two citizens of Russia who were installing skimming devices on ATMs in Vitebsk and Minsk.

Following a good Belarusian tradition, this year the Gorodok district is hosting guests and participants of the Vitebsk region's rural workers' festival "Dazhynki -2014".

This is how the employees of the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve intend to surprise tourists in the year of their 90th anniversary. In 2015, a floating house, the project for which is already ready, is planned to be put into operation here. The issue of creating a forest park - a rope attraction in the treetops - is being worked out.

Light industry enterprises make a significant contribution to the development of the industrial complex of Vitebsk. Among them, the leading enterprises in textile and garment production remain open joint-stock companies "Vitebskiye Kovry", "Znamya Industrializatsii", KUPP "Vitebchanka", LLC "Bell Bimbo Plus"; in the production of footwear and leather goods - SOOO "Belwest", LLC "Management Company of the Holding "Belarusian Leather and Footwear Company "Marko", open joint-stock company "Krasny Oktyabr", unitary enterprises "San Marco" and "<SPAN