A protection scheme for the Western Dvina has been developed in the Vitebsk region, Petr Duk, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, told a BELTA correspondent.

The City Executive Committee notes the activity in the development of entrepreneurial initiative in the regional center. Thus, over 8 months of the current year, 392 legal entities and over 1.2 thousand individual entrepreneurs were registered, which is 0.6% and 14.7% higher, respectively, than the figures for the same period in 2011. Among the main types of activities of newly registered enterprises are wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing, construction activities, passenger and freight transportation, and the provision of various services.

The events will take place in the garden of the artist's house-museum on Pokrovskaya Street. Two photo exhibitions will be organized here. Photographs taken at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century are gathered in the exhibition "City and Citizens", and an exhibition of works by Viktor Borisenkov titled "The City We Lost" will also be held.

August 8, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Power supply has been restored to all settlements in the Vitebsk region affected by the wind, BELTA was informed by RUP Vitebskenergo.

Thanks to the initiative of Olga Moroz, the owner of the agro-estate in Disna, potato babka has been included in the list of Europe's cultural heritage.

Vitebsk region is experiencing a steady decrease in the number of citizens' appeals regarding labor, employment, and social protection issues. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Marina Koroleva, Head of the Department for Organizational and Personnel, Legal Matters, and Public Relations of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Committee for Labor, Employment, and Social Protection.

More than 20,000 young spectators attended the New Year and Christmas events of the Vitebsk Culture Center, the center told a BELTA correspondent, summing up the results of the holiday campaign

Pensions in Belarus will be increased from November 1. The corresponding decree No. 478 "On Pension Increase" was signed by the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on October 21, the press service of the President reported.

Wolfram Maas, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Belarus, paid a working visit to Vitebsk. The head of the diplomatic mission outlined the purpose of his trip to the northern region of Belarus as familiarization with the economic, educational, and cultural potential of the region, and the identification of promising areas for cooperation.

A part of the functions of the district House of Culture has been transferred to the new facility — all conditions for holding mass festive events have been created in a comfortable hall with a capacity of 280 seats.

Due to the festive New Year's events, the operation of city passenger transport on the night of December 31, 2014, to January 1, 2015, on the routes

At the republican competition-seminar for cooks, confectioners, and waiters of consumer cooperation, Liozno confectioner Tatyana Shedko (pictured) won the 3rd degree diploma.