"I am pleased that my songs are in the orchestra's repertoire, it is an honor for me," said the Russian composer, congratulating the creative team. Maxim Dunaevsky accompanied the orchestra soloists who performed excerpts from the songs, the music for which he wrote.

The preparatory stage for the construction of the Polotsk Hydroelectric Power Station was the construction of a diversion channel, carried out from March to August. At the site of the future facility (10 km from Polotsk near the village of Luchno), the damming of the Western Dvina riverbed will be completed on September 5, which will allow builders to proceed directly to the main work - the construction of the Polotsk HPP hydro-node.

The main defendant in the case was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment for double murder and attempted murder committed with particular cruelty. The sentence has entered into legal force.

The heating season in the Vitebsk region will end on April 19, Dmitry Gerasimov, First Deputy Head of the Housing and Communal Services Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, told a BELTA correspondent.

A village, all of whose streets are named Rainbow, is located in the Lepel district on the shore of Lake Lepel. Here is such an interesting tautology, which does not hinder at all the settlers affected by the consequences of the Chernobyl accident from settling in a new place.

On February 27, the results of the city photo advertising contest for the book "Ein Buch zum Verlieben" – "A Book to Fall in Love With" were summarized at the German Reading Room of the V.I. Lenin Vitebsk Regional Library. The contest was held from January 9 to February 16, 2014.

During special operations at the border of Belarus and Russia, in the Rossony district, employees of the Department for Combating Smuggling and Administrative Customs Offenses of the Vitebsk Customs detained a Mersedes-Benz passenger car, manufactured in 1999, driven by a citizen of the Russian Federation.

February 1943 resonates with particular pain for the region's residents. Today, numerous monuments to burned villages and their inhabitants serve as a reminder of the "Osvia Tragedy".

Information technologies are actively entering the life of modern man. Educators are not left behind by progress either. To help them understand the intricacies of using the Internet's capabilities, the Novopolotsk City Digital Center IT Academy "Nota" offers special courses

The largest shopping and entertainment center in the region, 'Manezh', has opened in Polotsk. One of its distinctive features is the first ice rink in Belarus with a special artificial surface.

One of the largest footwear manufacturers in Belarus, Belwest company, plans to open its production workshop for sewing shoe uppers in Gorodok.

More than 20 cultural institutions in the Polotsk district will change their official names on the eve of the New Year. From December 26 to January 7, they will feature signs reading "Ded Moroz's Living Room," the Polotsk District Executive Committee reported.

The idea of holding Entrepreneurship Week was first implemented in 2006 in the United Kingdom. It was widely supported in subsequent years in various countries around the world, and this year it is already taking place in 140 countries. In 2011, this already international project was also supported by the Republic of Belarus.

It has become possible to pay for the issuance of driver's licenses in the Mogilev and Vitebsk regions through ERIP. This was reported by Anna Banadyk, Senior Inspector for Special Assignments of the Main Traffic Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.