A ball in honor of the winners was held on the stage of the Summer Amphitheater. The colorful event was part of the grand closing ceremony of the XXII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk".

Vitebsk region of Belarus and Heilongjiang province, one of China's oldest industrial bases, have signed an agreement to establish sister-city relations.

By the end of the current year, the new enterprise plans to produce 200-300 tons of metal structures. A unique enterprise for Belarus is being built in the village of Farinovo. The project implementation will allow reaching a qualitatively new level of metal structure production and successfully competing in domestic and foreign markets.

According to Svetlana Sinkevich, head of the epidemiology department of the zonal center for hygiene and epidemiology, 38,749 doses of vaccine have been received by the city's medical institutions.

The Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, in order to protect the economic interests of economic entities, filed over 300 lawsuits with the economic courts of the republic last year, as reported to BelTA correspondent by Olga Lapkovskaya, Deputy Head of the Department for Supervision of Legislation Enforcement and Legality of Legal Acts of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Thus, gradually decreasing over the past five years, the number of these crimes last year was 92 compared to 128 in 2007. The trend continues based on the results of January-February of the current year - 11 and 18 respectively.

The opening of this facility is perhaps the most significant event dedicated to the institution's 20th anniversary, as it is an important step towards mastering a new, in-demand area – rehabilitation and health resort treatment.

On the night of February 27, in the border zone of the Braslav district, Polotsk border guards detained 9 citizens of Asian appearance, who were accompanied by two natives of the Chechen Republic.

A Moroccan intended to reach Norway and find better living conditions there. The detained person had no documents with him, but had a tablet and a mobile phone. The truck driver was unaware of the presence of an unknown person in his vehicle.

Potatoes have been harvested from over 8% of the area (the total area of the region's potato fields is 3.8 thousand hectares). More than 12.2 thousand tons of tubers have been collected with a yield of about 380 centners per hectare.

The 11th Republican review-competition for the title of "Best District Police Inspector" and "Best Juvenile Affairs Inspector" has concluded in Minsk. Vitebsk district inspectors performed admirably in the competition. Based on the results of the completed trials, Senior District Police Inspector of the Vitebsk District Department of Internal Affairs, Police Major Sergey Valeryevich Tikhonov, was recognized as the best in the republic among district police inspectors.