Famous Russian director, founder of Moscow's "Theatre on the South-West" Valery Belyakovich is going to stage Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in Vitebsk.

This was reported to "VV" by the General Director of the Vitebsk Cultural Center, Alexander Sidorenko, who took part in the meeting of the republican organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the XXIII International Festival of Arts.

A state-of-the-art, latest-generation linear particle accelerator has been put into service for oncologists in the Vitebsk region, as reported to a BELTA correspondent by the chief physician of the regional clinical oncology dispensary, Candidate of Medical Sciences Anzhelika Tomchina.

The exhibition of works by the renowned Belarusian photographer Yuri Ivanov "Between White and Black. Photo Retrospective of Belarusian History of the Late 20th - Early 21st Century" opens today at the Vitebsk Art Museum

Half of the decade's precipitation norm fell today in Vitebsk, according to the regional center for hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring ("Vitebskoblgidromet").

For the international scientific and practical conference "Vitebsk Antiquities", which took place for the sixth time at the regional museum of local lore, researchers from Belarus, Russia, Latvia, and for the first time from the USA and Poland prepared fifty reports. They are related to various historical aspects of the development of the Dvina region in the chronological range from deep antiquity to the first third of the 20th century.

The Russian market is the main area for the implementation of projects for the Vitebsk manufacturer of water treatment technologies, where by the end of 2014, more than 80% of annual revenue was earned. Today, its specialists have already crossed the border of the Far North regions: last year, the list of regions where Polymerkonstruktsiya is present was expanded to include the Magadan region.

Trolleybuses in Vitebsk are planned to run along Voïnav-Internatsyyanalistav Street and in Bilevo. This was announced by Vyacheslav Lassky, chief specialist of the housing and communal services department of the city executive committee.

JSC «ASB Belarusbank» from 23.03.2015 introduced new consumer loans: «For Vacation» and «Spring-Online».