Significant investment will be required to complete the work on a number of socially significant facilities in the regional center. The city will commission a school and a kindergarten in the new Bilevo microdistrict, a Palace of Justice, the second phase of the morphological building, and the library of the medical university. Considerable work is to be done on healthcare facilities, including those under the regional administration. The improvement of the public garden on Lenin Square, the construction of piers and deepening of the fairway of the Western Dvina River, the reconstruction of Gagarin Street and other transport arteries of the regional center will continue. In the coming year, it is planned to allocate significant funds for current and capital repairs of housing stock, and the volume of housing construction should reach 270 thousand square meters.

An unusual festival, whose main stars will be horses, will take place for the first time in Belarus on June 5-6. Its program includes an exhibition-sale of horses and tack, trail riding competitions, educational seminars with the participation of equine specialists, and numerous entertainment activities for the whole family: contests, horse rides, and a costume parade of these animals.

The head of the Belarusian state expressed hope for further positive dynamics in bilateral contacts between Belarus and France.