At the extraordinary twenty-sixth session of the regional Council of Deputies of the 26th convocation, held on Thursday, several pressing issues were considered: on clarifying certain indicators of the regional budget for 2012 and on the early termination of the powers of deputies of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies elected to the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

As early as October last year, the regional agricultural sales board approved the regional program for the repair of agricultural machinery, which is currently being implemented on a smaller scale than stipulated by the document. According to the program, 127 billion rubles will be required for the payment of spare parts and repair services.

Tourists from Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Serbia, Moldova, Italy, China, Israel, as well as many other countries of the world, whose representatives are participating in the events of the anniversary "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", stayed in the hotel complexes of the regional center, which were fully booked during the festival. A significant portion of the guests are Russians and our compatriots from various cities and regions of Belarus. "According to the most modest estimates, there are more than 20 thousand guests at the festival these days," said Dmitry Skorynkin, noting that it is impossible to count every tourist, as many come to the festival independently and prefer to stay in rented apartments during their vacation.

Vitebsk has its own anthem. Today, at a session of the Vitebsk City Council of Deputies, deputies approved one of the six options presented at the city competition, reports a BELTA correspondent.

In anticipation of the new academic year, the season of preparing schoolchildren is actively underway in the Vitebsk region. To enable parents to fully purchase the necessary goods for this, more than 1,000 corners for first-graders are operating in the region's retail network, various promotions are being held, and discounts are available for particularly vulnerable population categories. For example, for large families, the Vitebsk Department Store is offering a 3% discount on the retail price of school supplies from August 10 to September 1. Other major retail enterprises in the region's districts have also taken measures to reduce prices.

The implementation of a large-scale project to create a new cheese production facility began at the Braslav branch of the Glubokoye Dairy and Canning Plant in 2011.

In the evening of October 4, in a residential building in the village of Voropayevo, Postavy district, Vitebsk region, the water jacket of a homemade solid fuel heating boiler ruptured. The owners with five children (the eldest born in 1998, the youngest in 2011) were at home at the time. Only the woman was injured in the explosion - she was washing clothes in the kitchen. She was taken to the hospital with steam burns of 1-3 degrees (10%) on her hands and face.

On July 29, a votive cross will be installed on Pavlovsky Cape in the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol. Its consecration took place in the Holy Assumption Cathedral with the participation of Archbishop Dmitry of Vitebsk and Orsha.