On the night of September 5, at 00:20, the Central Operations and Dispatching Unit of the Shchuchin District Department for Emergency Situations received a report of a house fire in the urban settlement of Shchuchin. Upon arrival at the scene, heavy smoke and fire were observed inside a wooden log residential house. In a room near the window, the body of the 54-year-old cohabitant of the homeowner was found on the bed. On the floor near the bed, the body of the 59-year-old homeowner was found. In the hallway, on the floor, the body of the homeowner's acquaintance, an unemployed man born in 1965, who was visiting her, was found.

On December 11 at 6:30 PM, the Philharmonic Hall will host a Vocal Music Concert by international competition laureates Ivo YORDANOV – baritone (Bulgaria) and Yuri BLINOV – piano (Belarus).

Further details are not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.

As reported by the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, buses will run on the following routes: No. 2 – "Tiraspol - Keramzit Plant", No. 10 – "Microdistrict 'Yug-7' - Railway Station", No. 12 – "Microdistrict 'Medcenter' - Ulanovichi-2", No. 34 – "Microdistrict 'Bilevo-1' - Railway Station", No. 99 – "Microdistrict 'Medcenter' - Vitebskrechtrans Enterprise", No. 106 – "Microdistrict 'Bilevo-1' - Smolensk Market", "Tiraspol - Victory Square".

On the second competition day, the girls will perform under numbers 12 and 7 respectively. Evgenia Klepitskaya will present the songs "Kadrilya" and "Belarus" to the jury, while Liza, a student of Svetlana Statsenko, will try to impress with her performance of the compositions "Paparats-kvetka" and "Nebo cherez kray".

In the Vitebsk region, no more than 20% of domestic consumers will pay for electricity at increased tariffs, Gennady Titenko, Deputy General Director for Sales of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebskenergo" - Director of the "Energosbyt" branch, told a BELTA correspondent.

The mushroom festival "Braslav Mushroom-2013" will take place on September 14 and will be held for the third time. As in the past year, participants will gather mushrooms in the Ratsky forest.

In the Vitebsk region, it is planned to start the construction of new footwear and leather production facilities this year. This was announced today to journalists by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, in response to a question from a BELTA correspondent.