For social workers of Smolensk and Vitebsk oblasts, a forum was held "Topical issues of rehabilitation of people with disabilities." The participants agreed to continue cooperation and implement a project to create an information and methodological platform.

The construction of Belarus' own nuclear power plant will strengthen the economic sovereignty of the country, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government on 6 November, BelTA has learned.

The list, where the chairman of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Nikolai Sherstnev made a personnel decision, includes 11 positions: from applicants for a leading position to those managers who have agreed to extend their contracts.

Presenting state awards and rank insignia on 5 November Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized an important role of the people in ensuring prosperity and independence of the state, BelTA has learned.

Vitebsk Oblast hosts a month of planting trees and shrubs in settlements as part of the environmental campaign of the Ministry of Natural Resources "Let`s improve our small homeland".

On 3 November Permanent Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva Yuri Ambrazevich met with Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Daren Tang, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Vitebsk Oblast, the amount of benefits for the single tax for citizens operating on a declarative basis has exceeded Br200,000, the press service of the oblast tax inspection reported.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has heard out a report of Head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate Viktor Sheiman.

This was announced by Vladimir Turavinov, chairman of Vitebsk Oblast Union of Employers.

Belarus' economic performance in January-September are not bad, and the state of the economy is generally better off compared to neighboring countries, Belarus Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko told the media after the meeting with the head of state, BelTA has learned.

In Polotsk State University, experts today discussed issues of economic development of regions, the implementation of business initiatives and the redistribution of labor resources in the economy.

All volunteers taking part in human trials of Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V have received the first component of the vaccine, the press service of Russia's Ministry of Health told reporters, TASS informs.

Vitebsk Oblast Library hosted a meeting of the heads and specialists of the departments of ideological work, culture and youth affairs, heads of cultural institutions of the oblast with the assistant to the President of Belarus - inspector for Vitebsk Oblast Anatoly Linevich and the head of the culture department of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Pyotr Podgursky.

The organizers of protests in Belarus demand radicalization, Latvian political analyst Einars Graudins said in an interview to Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA has learned.

In medical institutions of Vitebsk Oblast, 1.4 thousand beds are provided for patients with pneumonia and COVID-19. This was announced before a meeting of the oblast headquarters to counter the spread of COVID-19 by the head of the main health department of the oblast executive committee, Mikhail Vishnevetsky.

On behalf of the Belarusian people President Aleksandr Lukashenko sent greetings to President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman as the country celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak state, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

Today, any elderly resident of the oblast who cannot singly go to the pharmacy for medicine or to the grocery store can count on urgent help from social services, especially during an unfavorable epidemiological situation.

All enterprises belonging to the real sector of the Belarusian economy are operating in normal mode, the press service of the Belarusian government told BelTA.

Vitebsk Oblast Hospital has again joined in the fight against COVID-19, but at the same time continues to provide specialized assistance.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo had a telephone conversation on 24 October. The phone call was initiated by the U.S. side and lasted for about half an hour. The details of the conversation were revealed by the press service of the Belarusian leader.