"Have you seen the Poltava Academic Regional Puppet Theater's production about Chagall? Amazing! Utter delight! And the actors bear a physical resemblance to the characters! And the acting?! So moving!" – this is approximately how Vitebsk theatergoers spoke about the adult performance "Portrait with Flying Clocks. Marc Chagall",

An operational meeting chaired by the chairman of the regional executive committee was dedicated to the results of Nikolai Sherstnev's meeting with the work collectives of UP "Vitebsk Biopharma" and OJSC "Vozrozhdenie" of Vitebsk district. A calm working atmosphere is maintained at the enterprises, and people are adequately perceiving the emerging economic difficulties.

In 2009, it is planned to complete the formation of an electronic database of the city's buildings and structures, which takes into account the presence or absence of an accessible environment, and which already contains information on more than 2,000 facilities.

As of July 26, the region's farms have threshed almost 305.9 thousand tons of new crop grain, with an average yield of 25.6 centners per hectare. Work in the grain fields is organized until midnight, combine operators are provided with three hot meals a day, and almost all equipment is involved in the harvest, noted Ivan Fedorov.