On August 15, a garrison briefing was held at Victory Square in the regional center, dedicated to the celebration of the 95th anniversary of the Vitebsk Provincial Militia. An exhibition of police equipment and weapons from different years was also held here.

The Student Legal Aid Service, or in other words, the Legal Clinic, is an independent structural unit of Polotsk State University. Law students, under the guidance of experienced educators, advise residents of Novopolotsk on matters of civil, labor, housing, family, and administrative law.

People are constantly coming to Ushachy region, to the village of Bychki, far from the district center and high-speed highways, where on June 19, 1924, a Hero of Socialist Labor was born, a laureate of the Lenin Prize, State Prizes of the USSR and BSSR, the Yakub Kolas Literary Prize, a holder of numerous orders and medals, a writer whose name is known throughout the world.

Passengers of the Polotsk-Vitebsk suburban train can expect New Year's surprises today, the Polotsk District Executive Committee reported.

Today, one of the pressing issues that receives close attention in the country is the restoration of order on the land, bringing production sites, agricultural facilities, settlements, roadside strips, forests, waste disposal sites, and recreation areas into proper condition.

The hotel complex will open in 2014 in the Dubrovno district, the Dubrovno District Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent.

In April of this year, Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 563 of December 16, 2013 "On Certain Issues of Legal Regulation of Housing Relations" came into force. The norms of this decree are aimed at developing the fund of residential premises for commercial use of the state housing fund (rental housing).

Vitebsk State Technological University and Orsha Linen Mill are linked by long-standing and fruitful cooperation. Last year alone, the Department of Weaving proposed three new technologies for the production of linen-containing yarn.

The Vitebsk regional competition of grace and artistic skill "Queen Spring-2015", in which 13 beauties from four universities of the city will take part, will be held today in the regional center.

The first stage of the admission campaign has been completed – the centralized testing. This year, 28.5 thousand applicants participated in it, which is 1.3 thousand more people compared to last year. The regional commission, headed by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of State Control, Vadim Zaryankin, supervised the testing process.