Active work is underway to apply glyphosate and phosphorus fertilizers, with the latter's stock in the region being 40% complete. The remaining amount will be supplied shortly by Russian producers. Soil plowing in the region is to be completed by September 10, and sowing by September 20. To meet the planned deadlines, the daily volume of work performed must reach 11-12 thousand hectares per day, which is 4-5% of the target. Farmers are making every effort to increase the pace of work, and weather conditions are also favorable. In 2011, it is planned to increase the grain acreage in the region to 500 thousand hectares, of which about 250 thousand hectares are allocated for winter crops. 48%, or 120 thousand hectares, of these are allocated for wheat, 30% will be rye, and 20% will be triticale.

"Taking into account the predicted temperature drop in the near future, the operational group of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee decided on October 9 to turn on heating in the region's housing stock, without waiting for the officially established deadline," noted Sergey Putilovsky.

According to the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, the conditions created in the country for the development of private initiative and the adopted Directive No. 4 will contribute to an increase in the number of people employed in small and medium-sized businesses in the Vitebsk region alone from 110,000 to 200,000 by the end of 2015. The share of entrepreneurs in the gross regional product will increase from 7.8% to 15% during this period. The most favorable conditions will be created for the development of entrepreneurship in the region. "Every constructive business proposal will be heard and supported," assured Alexander Kosinets. Entrepreneurs will be able to participate on an equal footing in the implementation of 25 key regional development investment programs, and they will have the opportunity to demonstrate their enterprise in various fields, from production activities to the development of tourism infrastructure.

For the first seven months of the current year, there has been a decrease in child road traffic injuries in the republic. Thus, the number of road traffic accidents involving children decreased by 27% to 235, and the number of children injured in accidents decreased by 26% to 243. From January to July, 11 children died on the roads, and although this is 45% less, State Automobile Inspectorate officers are concerned about each such case. The beginning of the school year causes particular concern for road inspectors, when boys and girls return home to the city from camps and from rural relatives, having forgotten the rules of safe behavior on the road during the holidays. As statistics show, the fears are not unfounded. Since the beginning of August alone, four children have died in Belarus: two in the Vitebsk region, and one each in Minsk and the Minsk region.

In Vitebsk, a sentence was passed on a team of builders who were engaged in car theft, the Deputy Prosecutor of the Pervomaisky District of Vitebsk, Dmitry Orekhva, told a BELTA correspondent.