In the Vitebsk urban settlement of Ruba, Red Cross volunteers will launch 200 balloons and Chinese lanterns into the sky on October 24 to draw attention to the problem of 21st-century slavery.

The past weekend not only yielded top-performing combine operators but also showed the highest increase in harvested areas.

The number 13 became symbolic for seven athletes from the Vitebsk region who were included in the national teams of the Republic of Belarus. They brought 13 gold medals, one silver, and two bronze medals from the World Championship among youth and juniors in fire and rescue sports. On August 13, they were honored at the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Recently, a sentence was announced against a comprehensive cleaning worker of one of Vitebsk's housing maintenance departments, who, during working hours and in the presence of numerous witnesses, stabbed a homeless person twice in the chest.

As part of measures to control the income of citizens not participating in the financing of public expenditures, under Decree No. 3 "On the Prevention of Social Dependency," the inspection of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties for the Vitebsk region has requested income and property declarations from a thousand residents of our region.

The head of government took part in a meeting held last Thursday at the regional executive committee, which addressed the issue of the development of the region's industrial complex and the problems of its functioning. Before the meeting, the prime minister visited OJSC "Orsha Building Materials", foreign enterprise "Linpac Packaging East".