For Belarus, one of the problems caused by Russia's accession to the WTO is related to attracting investors to the domestic market.

The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus has approved the program of the concluding events of the First International Student Slavic Forum, within the framework of which a Startup Gathering will be organized with master classes, startup idea competitions, and startup debates.

The publishing project has brought together already known photographic works and previously unpublished photographs from the collections of the local history museum, which arrived at the museum through various channels. The collection is divided into three sections: "Occupational Regime", "Genocide", and "Liberation".

Cultural ties between Latvia and the Vitebsk region are developing intensively. This was announced today at the presentation of the collection of drawings of Livonia by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, reports BELTA correspondent.

Visitors to the "Electronics and Automation" exhibition will be able to see various technical inventions by Belarusian youth. For example, a GSM alarm system for safes with a combination lock, which will notify the owner and the security department in case of an attempted break-in. The "Technoart" exhibition features sculptures and compositions made of metal, and art objects in the context of industrial production technologies.

Late at night on the Vitebsk - Minsk highway, traffic police officers of the Lepel District Department of Internal Affairs, near the district center, detained a MAZ-MAN truck with a semi-trailer driven by a resident of Vileyka born in 1987. Without the appropriate accompanying documents, the driver was transporting 20 tons of secondary aluminum alloy worth Br340 million.

During the construction of the largest Belarusian hydroelectric power station - Vitebsk HPP - half of the work on the construction of the diversion channel and the slope has been completed, the BELTA correspondent was informed by Belenergo State Production Association.

On November 30, 2013, a "direct line" with Anatoly Vladimirovich Diulin, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, will be held.