July 10, Minsk / Liliya Krapivina - BELTA/. Tariffs for housing and communal services in Belarus are planned to be increased by the end of 2012, said Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services Anatoly Shagun to journalists today, according to a BELTA correspondent.

Border guards, together with customs officers and employees of the transport police department, discovered 29,000 packs of "Premier" cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps in a train en route from Vitebsk to Daugavpils. The total value of the cigarettes, according to preliminary data, amounted to almost Br90 million. The contraband has been seized. An investigation is underway regarding this incident.

Vitebsk Private Unitary Enterprise "Polymerkonstruktsiya" has been registered as a resident of the Vitebsk FEZ with a project to expand the production of innovative water purification and iron removal systems. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Vitebsk FEZ administration.

The first to try to gather the maximum number of spectators on the city's largest dance floor will be Sergey Lazarev, the group "Premier-Minister", the jazz duo Sofya Muratova and Alexey Isakov, as well as the participant from Russia at the "Vitebsk-2011" pop song performers competition, Mari Karne. And on July 13, a team consisting of Vlad Sokolovsky, the group "Otpetye Moshenniki", and the group "Geroi", which includes former soloists of the popular children's vocal group "Volshebniki dvora", will compete with them for the audience's attention.

Dear guests and participants of the International Student Slavic Forum! I cordially welcome you to the opening of a new international inter-university youth project, which launches the festival of friendship and youth of Slavic states!

A solemn meeting dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Vitebsk region and a ceremony honoring the holders of the honorary title "Person of the Year of Vitebsk Region", awarded for achievements in 2012, took place in the Vitebsk Concert Hall.

As a result of the work for January-September 2012 in 574 litigation cases, which constitutes 77% of those considered in the conciliation procedure, agreements and conciliation agreements were reached and signed between the parties.