A reader of "SB Belarus Today", Natalia Sulkovskaya from the urban settlement of Kokhanovo, Tolochin district, became a witness to a wild incident. She works as a nurse at the lyceum. That morning she was on sick leave and saw how employees of the "Kokhanovo-Housing and Communal Services" enterprise were shooting stray animals.

For 28 years in a row, the International Festival of Ancient and Modern Chamber Music has been the creative symbol of spring in Polotsk. This year, it once again promises to be a significant event in the country's cultural life, bringing together wonderful performers from Germany, Poland, Estonia, Belgium, Finland, and Belarus.

Four types of products from the Polotsk Dairy Plant received high praise at the 22nd annual international food exhibition "Prodexpo-2015" in the capital of the Russian Federation.

Svetlana Gorbacheva, a fourth-year student at Vitebsk State Technological University, won the Belarusian round of the XXIV International Inter-University Competition of Grace and Artistic Skill "Queen of Spring". The competition final took place on April 29 at the National Library of Belarus.

This was reported by Leonid Dorofeenko, Deputy Head of the Organizational and Personnel Work Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. There will be 5 polling stations in military units, and 51 polling stations in sanatoriums, hospitals, rest homes, and health resorts. Leonid Dorofeenko recalled that in the region, local Councils of Deputies are represented by 1 regional, 21 district, 7 city councils, including 3 in cities of district subordination, 12 settlement councils, and 199 rural councils. The deputy corps of the Vitebsk region is represented by 3530 deputies of local councils. The largest number of people's elected representatives, 2400, are deputies of rural councils. In the region, 240 territorial election commissions and 60 district commissions for elections to the Regional Council of Deputies have been established. By March 10, 923 precinct commissions are to be created.