August 7, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. The pace of grass fodder harvesting in the Vitebsk region is exceeding last year's, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

For three months, a 39-year-old resident of the regional center systematically, while intoxicated, oppressed, humiliated, and beat his wife, threatening the woman with brutal reprisal. He also repeatedly threatened to kill his 17-year-old son who defended his mother.

More than 50 schools in the Vitebsk region need fencing installations, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Ivan Shchurok, head of the education department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Vitebsk environmentalists intend to demand compliance with environmental requirements during the modernization of enterprises, said Ruslan Vinokurov, Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, to journalists today, according to a BELTA correspondent.

Charitable assistance exceeding Br6 billion has been provided to children's institutions in the Vitebsk region during the republican campaign "Our Children," reported Vladimir Terentyev, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, during a meeting with representatives of CJSC "Belzarubezhstroy."

At a time when winter, unwilling to give way to the next season, frightens us with the last frosts, delicate sprouts of peppers, tomatoes, flowers, and other crops are germinating on the windowsills of summer residents. And the summer residents themselves are looking in stores for another 'portion' of soil for pricking out the sprouted stems. Colorful packages with the 'Dvina' logo immediately attract attention.

Delegations from twin cities in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Armenia are taking part in the celebration of Vitebsk's 1039th anniversary, a BELTA correspondent reports.

In Vitebsk, 60 unemployed individuals have received subsidies to start their own businesses since the beginning of the year. The total amount of financial support from the state extrabudgetary fund for social protection of the population for organizing entrepreneurial or craft activities amounted to Br633 million.

Vitebsk schoolboy Ilya Savchenko won a gold medal at the XXII International Olympiad of Environmental Projects INEPO-2014, reported Veronika Pishchalina, head of the biology sector at the Vitebsk Regional Palace of Children and Youth.

On October 4, 2014, a "direct line" with Anatoly Vladimirovich Diulin, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will take place.

No violations of the moratorium on price increases in the food market of the Vitebsk region were recorded in recent days, reported Anna Olshanskaya, head of the department of antimonopoly and price policy of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

The conductor of the Minsk - Murmansk train was sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment for criminal negligence that resulted in passenger injury. A field court session on this case was held in Vitebsk.

In the Vitebsk region, the heating of residential buildings will be turned off starting April 25, according to the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Regional Executive Committee.

Recently, it became known that Anastasia Mikhalenko, a student of the Vitebsk Olympic Reserve School, won a silver medal at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships, which took place in Wroclaw, Poland.