The Italian tenor has accepted the festival organizers' invitation to come for a concert next year. In addition, his performance in Minsk with the National Concert Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus under the direction of Mikhail Finberg is scheduled for early December of the current year.

From August 27 to 29, joint meetings of the presidiums of district and city councils of deputies, and district and city executive committees were held in the region, where candidates for members of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus from the Vitebsk region were nominated.

A nursery school in the Medtsentr microdistrict of Vitebsk is planned to open by September 1. This was announced today to journalists by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, who is participating in the construction work of this facility, as reported by a BELTA correspondent.

Unemployment in the Vitebsk region is changing its female face to a male one. For the first time in several years, the number of unemployed men has exceeded the number of women.

Investigators of the Vitebsk City Department of the Investigative Committee of Belarus have arrested a citizen of Russia who is on an interstate wanted list for illicit drug trafficking.

The participants of the regional festival-competition, which will take place on the first day of the holidays – November 1st, will be 11 amateur groups from Novopolotsk, Shumilino, Verkhnedvinsk, Postavy, Dubrovno, Rossono, Gorodok, Glubokoye, Lepel, Chashniki. Sennо will be represented by the puppet theater "Petrushka", which was awarded the title of a national amateur collective this year. Thanks to this achievement, its hometown was chosen as the venue for the festival, noted Larisa Novikova.

The powers of the Orsha and Polotsk city councils of deputies have been transferred to district councils, the councils of deputies informed a BELTA correspondent.

All issues of housing provision for veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Vitebsk region will be resolved at the beginning of 2014. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Vladimir Terentyev, at a meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.

The festival will begin at 9:00 AM. The competition is planned to conclude by 12:00 PM. The mushroom festival will take place near the village of Kalenkishki in the 'Ratsky Bor' forest.

Traditionally, live flowers are an integral attribute of March 8, symbolizing spring, feminine tenderness, and beauty. And today, men who decide to congratulate their ladies with a colorful bouquet have a huge selection. In turn, DKUSTP "Zelenkhoz" offers flowers with a Vitebsk "registration."

The most significant contribution to water and atmospheric air purification measures in the Vitebsk region this year was made by industrial enterprises in the Polotsk region. This is the opinion of the region's environmental specialists.

Today in Minsk, the 42nd Congress of the BRSM is being held in the format of an open dialogue "Youth of Belarus: Traditions and Future", which has gathered about 3 thousand people from all over the country. The day before, the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee Vladimir Terentyev met with delegates of the youth forum from the Vitebsk region.

The festival of North European cinema will be held in Vitebsk in April, reported Tatyana Yekomasova, director of the Vitebsk cinema "Mir". It is in this cinema, from April 23 to 29, that films of various genres produced by Scandinavian and neighboring countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland will be shown daily at the evening session at 7:00 PM. By the end of the week, a poster will appear and the titles of specific films will be known; all of them are quite new - from 2013-2014.