All farms in Belarus have harvested potatoes from 33.7 thousand hectares, which is more than 61% of the area to be harvested. Over 825 thousand tons of potatoes have been dug up with an average yield of 245.2 centners per hectare. The highest indicators are in the Grodno, Mogilev, and Minsk regions, where an average of 276.3, 269, and 260.2 centners of potatoes are harvested per hectare.

In the Vitebsk region in 2012, the number of fires decreased by 12% compared to the previous year, and the number of people killed in them decreased by 17%, Vasily Chekan, head of the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Management Department, told a BELTA correspondent.

August 9, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Over Br83 billion has been allocated in the Vitebsk region for preparation for the inter-season period, Anatoly Sudak, head of the production and technical department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's housing and communal services department, told a BELTA correspondent.

More than Br650 billion is planned to be allocated for the implementation of investment program measures in the Vitebsk region in 2013, the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies informed a BELTA correspondent.

Natalia Gaydarzhi started sewing clothes eight years ago. First as an entrepreneur, and a year later she founded her own design studio.

Street lighting in Polotsk will become energy-efficient. This was announced to journalists by Anastasia Adamovich, head of the Polotsk Sustainable Energy Development Group.

Specialists from Moscow are preparing the Summer Amphitheater stage around the clock for the XXII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", which will be held from July 11 to 15.

Lake Richi in the Braslav district will become a diving training site, reported Yevgeny Labut, director of the enterprise "Braslav - Richi".

A "round table" was recently held in the regional center, initiated by the Vitebsk United Organization of the Public Association "Republican Association of Wheelchair Users". Representatives of public organizations of disabled people, charitable foundations, state structures, and entrepreneurs took part in the discussion of issues vital for people with disabilities.

For over 30 years, Lyudmila Yatskovskaya has been working as a leading designer at Orsha CJSC OPTF "Svitanak". Recently, she became a laureate of the "Best Designer of the Year 2012 in the Vitebsk Region" award.

In Belarus, by Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 939 of October 29, 2013, the subsistence minimum budget was approved on average per capita and for the main socio-demographic groups at September 2013 prices, calculated for one month.

"I was born!" – under this title, a celebration of young families who had their first child took place in Rossony.

Without the past, there is no future: all that is most harmonious and beautiful, created by human hands, rests on traditions. This is the unwavering conviction of the photographers from the Vitebsk creative workshop "ArGentum".

This was stated at the third meeting of twin cities and partners of Belarus and Latvia, organized by the Belarusian Association "Twin Cities" together with the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and the Orsha District Executive Committee, which took place in Orsha. The event was attended by Oleg Matskevich, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, and Boris Batura, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Association "Twin Cities".