August 9, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Good grades of children, conscientious work of parents, and warm family relationships will be the main criteria for determining the best large family in Vitebsk. The decision to hold the annual city review-competition "Best Large Family" was made by the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, the BELTA correspondent was informed by the Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee.

The "Grigorovshchina" checkpoint is located in the Verkhnedvinsk district on the border with Latvia. It was closed on July 15 of the current year due to large-scale reconstruction work. It is expected that on October 15, the first phase of the facility will be commissioned: two lanes for outgoing trucks, one lane for incoming trucks, as well as lanes for incoming and outgoing cars and buses will start operating.

A snowmobile has begun to be used for state border protection at one of the outposts of the Polotsk border detachment, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Denis Glebko, assistant head of the Polotsk border detachment.

Renowned musicians from Belarus, Russia, and Lithuania will gather at the XXIV International Music Festival named after I.I. Sollertinsky in Vitebsk, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Nelly Matsaberidze, the artistic director of the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic.