Employees of the economic crimes unit of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department uncovered a violation of the fruit wine production technology at one of the enterprises in the Sennensky district. According to the requirements of technical regulatory legal acts in the field of technical regulation and standardization, when producing batches of fortified improved quality fruit wine, alcohol is added to the wine materials. However, in violation of technical standards, the enterprise's employees diluted the wine materials not with alcohol, but with fermented-alcoholized apple juice (mash) of their own production. "Thus, from January 2011 to August 2012, over 100 thousand liters of mash were produced for the production of substandard wine, and another 2 thousand bottles of 0.7-liter "Dryada" wine were released, with a total value of over Br180 million," said Veronika Posmeteva.

At the end of August, at the republican customs clearance point "Urbany" (Braslav district), based on risk profiles, the movement of an Iveco truck driven by a citizen of the Republic of Belarus was suspended.

A creative competition for masters and craftswomen, adherents of folk artistic traditions in decorative and applied arts, is held in the form of a biennial. This year's theme is "Autumn Colors".

The preliminary cause of the mass death of ducks in Vitebsk is called improper feeding by ecologists. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Valery Fando, head of the Vitebsk City Inspectorate for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.

Vitebsk customs officers stopped the smuggling of art valuables worth almost Br360 million, the Vitebsk customs informed BELTA.

This was stated by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, at a session of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies, where the socio-economic development forecast for the region was discussed.

The reconstruction of the international road checkpoint "Grigorovshchina", located in the Verkhnedvinsk district, will be completed in the fourth quarter of the current year.

A meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the republican festival-fair of rural workers "Dazhynki-2014" with the participation of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Mikhail Rusy, representatives of all ministries, and regional structures began at the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

The election campaign for local Councils of Deputies of Belarus will start no later than December 24, 2013. This was announced by the Secretary of the Central Election Commission, Nikolai Lozovik.

Five state higher education institutions in the Vitebsk region have concluded a four-week admissions marathon. The wave of the admission campaign encompassed 5,570 individuals eager to obtain a student ID, as this is the number of people who applied for their chosen specialties. However, only 5,148 managed to pass the rigorous competitive entrance exams for both state-funded and fee-paying full-time and part-time studies.

SOOO "Belvest" plans to create a modern logistics complex in the suburbs of Vitebsk no later than 2020. And although the promising task of increasing shoe production volumes has been halved for the enterprise, from 6 to 3 million pairs per year, the general director of the company, Yuri Sumaneev, is confident that today, inbound and outbound logistics are often the basis for the overall success of a manufacturer's operations.

The commissioning of the new preparatory and pressing department of JSC "Vitebsk MEZ" has significantly increased production volumes.

The Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region has uncovered instances of tax evasion by the director of the Vitebsk LLC "N".

Employees of the Orsha Interdistrict Department of Financial Investigations and the Orsha Customs Post of the Vitebsk Customs detained a cargo minivan, on which 50 thousand packs of Parliament cigarettes with a total value of 860 million rubles were being smuggled.