The city review-competition among volunteer squads of educational institutions in Vitebsk will take place on October 5 in the Park of Culture and Recreation named after the Soviet Army. Ten teams, with a total of about 60 people, will participate in the competition.

"The lifting of the arrest on technological oil in the Latvian section of the Polotsk-Ventspils main oil pipeline by the Supreme Court of Latvia does not mean the completion of the consideration of this case by Latvian judicial authorities. The final decision will be made during the court hearing in October 2013," noted the head of the Belarusian joint-stock company, commenting on the decision of the Supreme Court of Latvia last week to lift the arrest on the disputed technological oil located in the section of the Polotsk-Ventspils main oil pipeline belonging to the Latvian-Russian company "LatRosTrans".

System administrators and specialists in leather and fur production will be trained at the Vitebsk State Technological University (VSTU), the educational institution informed a BELTA correspondent.

The bust is located on the territory of the Liozno Military History Museum, not far from the site where the house of the famous artist's relatives was located. The idea for its creation and realization belongs to sculptors Alexander Gvozdikov and Azat Torosyan.

The activities of the honorary consulate will be aimed at establishing closer contacts between economic entities, cultural figures, universities, and other potential partners.

The greatest Christian shrines – a reliquary cross with 50 particles of the relics of the saints of God and an icon with particles of the relics of Saint Matrona of Moscow – will be located in Vitebsk at the Holy Trinity Markov Monastery for Men until October 12.

The corresponding decree No. 537 was signed by the head of state Alexander Lukashenko on November 29.

Built by servicemen of the 259th Separate Mobile Railway Restoration Battalion of the 30th Separate Red Banner Railway Brigade. Length – 184 meters, roadway width – 4 meters, load capacity – 40 tons.

On June 20, the jubilee 40th meeting of the Collegium of the Border Committee of the Union State was held in Novopolotsk.

More than 100 residents of the Vitebsk region have been awarded in honor of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of besieged Leningrad, reported Gennady Egorov, Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans.