This year, the sown area of winter cereals in the region amounted to 233 thousand hectares. The largest areas for these crops are concentrated in the Orsha, Tolochin, Verkhnedvinsk, and Glubokoye districts.

Violations of labor protection legislation in enterprises and organizations of the Vitebsk region are systemic. This opinion was expressed to a BELTA correspondent by Svetlana Golovey, Chief State Labor Inspector of the Vitebsk Regional Department of the State Labor Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection.

Back in 2012, the large-panel housing construction plant of OJSC "Construction and Installation Trust No. 16, Novopolotsk" mastered the production of modernized series 90 panels, and the builders plan to commission one such apartment building using the new structures as early as January.

The idea of celebrating World Water Day was put forward in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In its resolution 47/193 of December 22, 1992, the General Assembly decided to declare March 22 of each year as International Day of Water Resources, which was later renamed World Water Day and has been celebrated since 1993.

August 8, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. More than half of the schools in the Vitebsk region have already received readiness certificates for the new academic year, Ivan Shchurok, head of the education department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent.

Dear residents of the region! Dear veterans! I sincerely congratulate you on the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus and the 69th anniversary of the country's liberation from the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War! The Day of Liberation has become a symbol of national pride, valor, and glory, a spiritual shrine that has a profound impact on the formation of the Belarusian people's self-awareness and character.