Of the storage facilities designated for the creation of the stabilization fund, 11 are managed by trade enterprises, 19 by the regional consumer union, and 13 by agricultural organizations. Currently, products are already being stored in them. For example, as of October 1, 900 tons of onions, 1 thousand tons of carrots, 5 thousand tons of potatoes, and 300 tons of apples have been stored. Only 600 tons of beets and 100 tons of cabbage have been stored so far, as their harvesting has just begun.

"Courtyards for kids" are intended to be created by young parliamentarians of the Liozno district. The first youth chamber in a rural district of the Vitebsk region has started working at the Liozno District Council of Deputies, the head of the youth affairs department of the district executive committee, Irina Kudryavtseva, told a BELTA correspondent.

The construction, with JSC "Zhilstroy" as the general contractor, is practically complete. And during the regional субботник (volunteer work day), the public contributed to the upcoming resettlement of residents into the new building.

The prosecutor's office has identified a number of violations in the operation of kindergartens in the Vitebsk region, Irina Kryukovskaya, Assistant Prosecutor of the Vitebsk region for supervision of legislation on minors and youth, told a BELTA correspondent.

The historical banner of the Polotsk Cadet Corps will be transferred for temporary safekeeping to the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. This was announced by the chairman of the Republican Council of the Belarusian Union of Suvorovites and Cadets, Yuri Senkov.

Criminal cases have been initiated following resonant road traffic accidents in Vitebsk, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by Inna Gorbacheva, the official representative of the Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk Region.

In Vitebsk's Mazurino Park, as part of the City Day celebration on June 28, a good tradition was revived – flying kites.

From November 28 to 30, industry enterprises from different regions of Belarus, as well as Russia, will be presented at the Vitebsk Concert Hall. Business circles of the Pskov region have shown the greatest interest from the neighboring country. This event is held with the support of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus and the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

At a "round table" with the President of the country, Alexander Lukashenko, representatives of various sciences gathered: biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, philology, and others – the intellectual elite of Belarus.

While hunting with wire snares in a nature reserve, residents of the Dokshitsy district killed two elk. The poachers were apprehended immediately and a criminal case was initiated for illegal hunting. Inspectors assessed the damage caused to nature at 486 million rubles (2,700 base units).

On May 31, 2014, a "direct line" with Oleg Sergeevich Matskevich, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will be held on issues of economy, trade and services, entrepreneurship, investment policy, labor and wages, and insurance activities.

The head of the department of ideological work, culture and youth affairs of the district executive committee, Natalia Gamzyuk, informed "Vitebskiye Vesti" that the sculptural composition "Taras on Parnassus" will return to the district center in the coming days. It was bought for Horadok by the president of the Russian concern "Detskoselsky", which has an agricultural production enterprise in the district, Yuri Braginets.

Renowned musicologist and People's Artist of Russia, Svyatoslav Belza, will specially come to Polotsk for the festival. He will perform in his usual capacity as the host of the concert, this time featuring the male vocal trio "Relikt". The famous Russian performers will bring to the festival the program "Romance for All Time", consisting of the most brilliant and popular works from different years.