A 14-year-old teenager from Vitebsk has been detained in Russia for offering passers-by tea on the streets under the guise of drugs. He operated under a similar scheme in Minsk, where he also committed robbery, the Minsk City Executive Committee's Main Department of Internal Affairs reports.

January 11, Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee /Own correspondent/. On January 14, 2010, in Vitebsk, the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee will hold a charity event for the transfer of wheelchairs received as foreign gratuitous aid from the USA. The event will be attended by volunteers of humanitarian projects in the Republic of Belarus of the international charitable public association "Sofia", representatives of the LLC "Republican Association of Wheelchair Users" and student volunteers of the educational institution "VSU named after P.M. Masherov". The venue is the Palace of Sports, the charity event starts at 12:00.

The election campaign for the election of deputies to local councils is in full swing. While future people's representatives are entering the race for the votes of their constituents, the current parliamentary body is summing up the results of its work. Deputies of the 25th convocation have much to their credit, largely thanks to Decree No. 21 "On Enhancing the Role of Local Government Bodies in Addressing Population Welfare Issues." In an interview with a BELTA correspondent, the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies, Alexander Atyasov, spoke about how the parliamentary body of the Vitebsk region applied this decree and what it brought to their constituents.

According to the Prime Minister, the socio-economic development program of Belarus for the next 5 years includes a key indicator for attracting net investment.