The new building of the Republican Center for Medical Rehabilitation of Internationalist Soldiers in Vitebsk will be commissioned this year. This was announced by Vladimir Terentyev, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, at a ceremony dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

The representative and spectacular art project "ZOOparking "Noah's Ark", announced in 2011 as a triennial in Vitebsk, has returned to the Art Museum and become a prominent event.

Today, Vitebsk is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of People's Artist of Belarus Pavel Maslenikov with a series of events, the Ideological Work, Culture and Youth Affairs Department of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee reported.

The Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Regional Executive Committee, in agreement with the regional office of the Social Protection Fund of the Population and banking institutions, approved the schedules for the transfer of funds for the payment of pensions (benefits) through banking institutions for 2015.

These include the white-fronted goose, the bean goose, the greylag goose, the Canada goose, the mallard, the ferruginous duck, the tufted duck, the garganey, and the Eurasian teal.

In Gorodok, an 82-year-old local resident, driving a "Hors" moped, collided with a "PAZ" bus when exiting a parking lot onto the main road. This was reported by the press service of the Main Traffic Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

Luiza Nurkuatova from Kazakhstan won the Grand Prix of the XIII International Children's Music Competition "Vitebsk-2015" at the XXIV International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". The girl was solemnly presented with a special prize and a diploma of the Grand Prix winner. The first prize, special prize, and laureate diploma (winner of the 1st prize) were awarded to Darina Galitskaya from Ukraine.

Materials obtained during the project were used in the preparation of the National Atlas of Belarus and the academic multi-volume publication "Flora of Belarus", as well as for the third edition of the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus.