As of October 19, in the Vitebsk region, 10.9 thousand tons of potatoes have been laid in reserve above the established norm (1.8 times more), and in the Mogilev region, 1.5 thousand tons. In total, 68.8 thousand tons of potatoes have already been laid in stabilization funds in the regions and Minsk, or 102% of the target set by the government.

Approximately Br2.5 trillion was allocated from the regional budget for the development of the education system in the Vitebsk region in 2012. This was announced today at the ceremony honoring the winners of the final stage of the republican subject olympiad for 2012 and the teachers who prepared them, by the Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Vladimir Terentyev, reports BELTA correspondent.

In 2012, employees of the Vitebsk Regional Committee of State Control and the Department of Financial Investigations identified 32 legal entities violating the procedure for conducting foreign trade operations, the control authority informed BELTA.

6 kindergartens are under construction in the Vitebsk region, the regional executive committee's education department informed a BELTA correspondent.

On the M3 Vitebsk - Minsk highway, a renovated, state-of-the-art roadside service facility, the "101 km" cafe, has appeared at the multifunctional gas station-18, located near Begoml.

The Grand Prix of the II International Interuniversity Festival of Modern Dance "Take a Step Forward!" was won by the team of the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine (VSAVM), the Vitebsk Regional Committee of the BRSM informed a BELTA correspondent.

The reconstructed road border crossing point "Grigorovshchina", located in the Verkhnedvinsk district of the Vitebsk region on the border with Latvia, will be put into operation by 2015, the Vitebsk customs reported.

On the International Day of AIDS Prevention and on the eve of this date, thematic events, art exhibitions, round tables, press conferences, as well as various events dedicated to the issue of HIV/AIDS will be organized in the Vitebsk region.

"The Musical Life of Vitebsk in the First Quarter of the 20th Century" by Gavriil Yudin (Minsk, "Medisont", 2013) is the first swallow in the "Chagall House Bookshop" series.

Enterprises, like people, have their own destinies. Some work stably throughout their history, develop and increase production volumes, while others are tossed about as if by stormy sea waves. The collective of the current branch of the Glubokoye condensed milk factory "Braslavryba" can be attributed to the latter. More than anyone else in the region, it has experienced the consequences of market relations, re-profiling, subordination and re-subordination, rising and falling. And each time it strove to survive, to stay afloat.

This week will see the completion of the nomination of representatives to territorial election commissions, which are to be formed no later than July 22 at joint meetings of representative and executive authorities. A total of 26 territorial commissions are to be formed in the Vitebsk region, including the regional commission and the city commission in Novopolotsk. The right to delegate their representatives to these commissions is held by work collectives, political parties and public associations, as well as citizens.

They are young, but they have already managed to prove themselves and achieve success in various fields of activity, be it academic subject Olympiads, creative contests, or sports competitions. They have many more goals and achievements ahead of them, but already in a different status – as citizens of the Republic of Belarus.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, together with their relatives, will march in a solemn procession in Vitebsk on May 9, reported Ekaterina Labuko, director of the regional methodological center for folk art.