July 11, 2011 /Staff correspondent// As part of the International Arts Festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", concerts will be held at the concert venue located on Pobedy Square.

Artists will be the first to start working at the forum today. Traditionally, the open-air art gallery "Vitebsk Vernissage" will be located on the pedestrian streets of Tolstoy and Suvorov near the Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. "This year, about 150 artists from all over Belarus will present their works on various themes and tastes to the residents of Vitebsk and festival guests," the Vitebsk Center for Contemporary Creativity reported.

A significant portion of observers are representatives of parties and public organizations. According to Leonid Dorofeenko, by election day, September 23, the number of national observers will significantly increase, mainly due to those who will be accredited at polling station election commissions. Long-term international observers from the CIS have already familiarized themselves with the progress of the election campaign in the Vitebsk region.

Vitebsk became the third city where a representative office of this financial institution was opened. Earlier this year, branches were opened in Grodno and Mogilev.

More than 130 units of weapons were seized in the Vitebsk region from April 1 to 5 during the special operation "Arsenal", the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

"The republic has grounds for the prompt restoration of the population's income level, as the gross domestic product growth rate for January-May of the current year was 112.5% against a plan of 109-110%, labor productivity - 112%, investment in fixed capital - 131%, exports of goods and services - 149.3% for January-April against a planned 116.4%," said the head of the FPB.

By the beginning of summer, UP "Kinovideoprokat" of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee presented a gift to all moviegoers of the northern capital. The first film screening took place in the renovated hall with 50 seats on the second floor of the House of Cinema.

On August 23, 2013, a regular meeting of the Council for the Development of Entrepreneurship of the Republic of Belarus will be held. The topic of the meeting is "The participation of private business in the processes of economic modernization: state, problems, prospects".

As explained to the deputies by Konstantin Cherny, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Economy Committee, the project envisages carrying out work to improve the road infrastructure on the border Belarusian-Latvian section of the Kaplava-Plyusy highway. It is planned to widen the roadway here and build so-called "pockets" - temporary parking areas for vehicles. The length of the reconstructed section on the Belarusian side will be 1.5 km.

Vitebsk railway workers are the first on the Belarusian Railway to implement innovative microprocessor technologies, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by the unitary enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway".

Arlena Kashkurevich, Boris Arakcheev, Vladimir Savich, Sergey Timokhov, Polotsk, museum

More than a dozen departments are planned to be opened in the territorial centers for social services to the population (TCSO) of the Vitebsk region in 2014, reported Inga Glushonok, Deputy Head of the Department of Social Support for the Population and Stationary Institutions of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Public activists plan to test the new form of work in the Vitebsk region, specifically in the Surazh zone, which is farthest from the regional center.