President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has conferred regular military and special ranks. The Prosecutor of the Vitebsk region, Gennady Dysko, has been awarded the class rank of State Counselor of Justice, 3rd class.

In October, a meeting of the heads of the relevant district services was held on this issue, with the participation of employees from the Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. As was noted at the meeting, recent field studies have confirmed the uniqueness of the natural complex located in the lands of Miory region.

On the night of December 2, Polotsk border guards detected a raft floating on the Western Dvina River. At 00:35, during a routine inspection, a border patrol discovered a raft consisting of interconnected boxes of cigarettes equipped with a motor and a GPS tracker. In this way, smugglers intended to transport a large batch of cigarettes to Latvia using the river current.

As of early August, 192 organizations in the Vitebsk region had wage arrears totaling over 126 billion rubles. However, there has been a decrease in the number of debtor enterprises compared to the previous month, when 219 organizations had arrears. The most significant problems with timely wage payments are observed in the Dubrovno, Glubokoye, Miory, Tolochin, Polotsk, and Braslav districts.

Children, together with educators, are participating in one of the most interesting environmental programs for children and adolescents, "Green Schools," which unites over 40,000 educational institutions in 46 countries worldwide, from Great Britain and France to Morocco and the Republic of South Africa, including more than 250 schools in Belarus.

A group of young artists recreated in Vitebsk on the wall of the building at 7 Tolstoy Street, where the branch of the Center for Contemporary Art "Art-Space" is located, one of Lazar Lissitzky's scenographic sketches for the futuristic opera "Victory Over the Sun".

On March 21, 2015, a "direct telephone line" will be held with the residents of the region by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Nikolai Nikolaevich Sherstnev.

About one hundred gifted schoolchildren and students of secondary vocational educational institutions in the Vitebsk region have become recipients of the regional Council of Deputies award for achievements in the field of art over six years, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee reported.