More than a hundred New Year's beauties, made of Belarusian silk using various materials, are presented at the exhibition that opened today at the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. Despite the abundance of exhibits, there are no similar works here. Each of them, thanks to the creative approach of the authors, claims the title of a linen masterpiece and can pose serious competition to artificial Christmas trees or become an alternative to live trees.

The Secretary of the Central Election Commission noted the increased activity of parties in the current election campaign, but observed that "upon detailed analysis, it turns out that when nominating representatives to commissions, individual political parties were concerned with statistics, trying to nominate as many of their representatives as possible, without thinking about how capable these people are of working in commissions given their abilities." Nikolai Lozovik believes that it is necessary to nominate worthy people as candidates for deputies, capable of working in the interests of their constituents.

Every fifth resident of the region will receive a free vaccination against the main winter ailment within a month. In total, the immunization campaign plans to cover about 289,000 people, which is twice as many as last year. Children under three years old are planned to be vaccinated by the end of next week.