The Vitebsk City Executive Committee, the public association "Association of Employers and Entrepreneurs" of the Vitebsk region, and one of the city's online resources about employment have become the founders of the city award "Best Employer of Vitebsk 2012".

August 8, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Cooperators of the Vitebsk region paid the population almost Br106 billion for agricultural products and forest gifts handed over in January-July of the current year. Compared to the same period last year, the population's revenue increased by 30%, the first deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Consumer Union, Viktor Shulyak, told a BELTA correspondent.

On November 29, 2012, at 11:00 AM, the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic Hall will host the regional festival of amateur art "In the Circle of Friends" for people with disabilities attending territorial social service centers.

Ecologists of the Vitebsk region intend to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the environmental impact of Belneftekhim enterprises in the Polotsk region in 2013. This was announced today to journalists by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Ruslan Vinokurov, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

About 300 works were submitted by young residents of the Vitebsk region to the ecological drawing competition, the Vitebsk Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection informed a BELTA correspondent.

"Theater Meetings-2013" and the film program of the XXII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" will be held on a self-financing basis, as reported by the festival directorate director Alexander Sidorenko in an interview with a BELTA correspondent.

Evgeny Zhidetsky, Oleg Lishaev, and Alexander Yushkevich won a ticket to the semi-final, which will take place on December 1 in St. Petersburg.

On January 18-19, 2014, the XXII International Freestyle Wrestling Tournament will take place. Venue: Vitebsk, Central Sports Complex (Luidnikova Ave., 12).

Issues of rural economy recovery were discussed at a meeting in Polotsk, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Mikhail Rusy, Minister of Agriculture and Food Leonid Zayats, heads of the region and ten districts of the western wing of Vitebsk region.