Footballers of Novopolotsk "Naftan" have not being paid for almost six months. This was announced by team midfielder Valery Zhukovsky in the championship after the first defeat (1:3) from BATE.

On the eve of the 90th anniversary of Vasil Bykov an initiative group to raise funds for a monument to the writer in Vitebsk. With erect a monument made ??by ordinary citizens. Initiative group refers to a resident of Vitebsk and throughout Belarus, as well as citizens of other countries to take part in this charity event.

In Łučaj in Pastavy area prayed for Belarus. There was a festival on the occasion of the commemoration of the Belarusian martyr Andrew Bobola. "He committed suicide in terrible pain - priest Marat Kozlovski says - but not abandoned his idea of the unity of Christians." For his beliefs he was killed in Yanovo Polesskoe, now the city of Ivanovo, Brest region.

May 16, Alexander Lukashenko signed the decree №219 "On the construction of the Vitebsk hydroelectric power station on the Western Dvina river". According to the document, before January 1, 2019 will be implemented Vitebsk hydroelectric complex construction. Contract signed for the construction of RUP "Vitebskenergo" and the Chinese company China National Electric Engineering Co., Ltd.

According to the experts of the NGO "Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia", the grounds for involuntary admission Vitebsk doctor-love of truth in the "loony bin" was not. In April Igor Postnov traveled to Moscow on an independent survey since sought to disprove the diagnosis made him Vitebsk psychiatrists. He also sought to verify whether it was necessary to "isolate" it from society by confinement in the psychiatric ward of a court decision.