33 female residents of the region participated in the solemn event, 8 of them were awarded the Order of Motherhood, and 25 received the honorary prize named after Z. Tusnolobova-Marchenko (two other laureates could not attend due to family circumstances).

The International Student Slavic Forum in Vitebsk will serve to strengthen relations between Russia and Belarus. This opinion was expressed today at a press conference dedicated to the opening of the forum by Olga Vasilyeva, Deputy Governor of the Smolensk region, according to a BELTA correspondent.

According to experts, the best footwear in the country is produced by SOOO "Marko". It is this company that received the award in the consumer nomination "Brand Leaders". Vitebsk milk from OJSC "Moloko" was recognized as the best regional product.

Radio "Belarus" together with the Main Directorate of International Relations of Belteleradiocompany summed up the results of the quiz for foreign listeners "Hospitable Belarus". The main prize – a trip to the XXIII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" – was won by Vasily Gulyaev, a service engineer of medical equipment from Russia.

The International Festival of Ancient and Modern Chamber Music opens today in Polotsk, the Sofia Cathedral, on the basis of which the event will take place, informed BELTA.

For the first time in Novopolotsk, at the "Evening of Honoring the Winners of the City Labor Competition for the Results of 2014", a priest was invited to the stage. Archpriest Alexander Karandey became the "Person of the Year of Novopolotsk" in the nomination "Local Government and Self-Government, Insurance, Social Protection, Public Activities".

The peculiarity of the transition to digital format in television is that restrictions have been introduced on the coexistence period of analog and digital television.

The Israeli company "AgriGo LTD" is ready to participate in the project to create a Belarusian-Israeli agro-industrial park, which is planned to be implemented in the Orsha and Tolochin districts.

Employees of the operational search department of the Vitebsk customs, in cooperation with employees of the Gorodok District Department of Internal Affairs, detected smuggling during verification activities regarding the transportation of tractor spare parts from Belarus to Russia.

The international exhibition of floristic collage titled "My Angel…" opens today at the Art Museum and will be accompanied by charity master classes. It is organized by the International Creative Association of Phytocollagists "Florissima" as part of a thematic project launched in April 2014.

Traffic across the bridge over the Dnieper River on Bobkov Street in Orsha will be opened on May 9. This will be another gift to the residents of the Orsha region, as the bridge, over 200 meters long, connects two large districts – Zadneprovye and Lnokombinat.

A Regional Sustainable Development Strategy is being created in the Vitebsk region, in the development of which all groups of the local community can participate. The work is currently in its initial stage, where it is necessary to adequately describe the present day in order to subsequently formulate the desired image of the future.

The sixth "Friendship Cup" international beach soccer tournament for prizes from the regional executive committee and the "Beach Soccer Federation" Association (BFA) in Belarus will be held in Vitebsk from July 24-26.