On the instructions of the leadership of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the Standing Committee on Work and Social Affairs of the PP considered the proposal of Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik regarding holding parliamentary hearings about the decree on "parasites". The result of this consideration was the refusal of the parliament to hold the proposed hearings.

In Vorša, a new master plan is being developed that will determine what the city will be by 2030. Among the items proposed by the architects there is also a scandalous one: it is planned to build two roads that will pass directly to the places of mass Stalin executions on Kobyljatskaya mountain and near Mahiloŭ highway.

The economic decline in Viciebsk continues. In January-August 2017, only two regions of the country – Viciebsk and Mahiloŭ – the gross regional product (GRP) continued the decline, which dragged on in the Belarusian regions for two years. GRP began to grow in four other regions of Belarus.

A 46-year-old engineer from Viciebsk, Andrei Keshenyuk, was dismissed from Beltelecom due to optimization of human resources.

The 31-year-old Olga Stepanova was found guilty of causing death by negligence. On the basis of Part 1 of Article 144 of the Criminal Code, she was sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months with serving a sentence in a penal colony in a settlement. For the time provided for appealing the sentence, the measure of restraint for her was changed to a written undertaking not to leave the place (4 months before the trial, Olga Stepanova was in the SIZO).

The hero of our next material about the conditions of detention in temporary detention facilities of the Viciebsk region was the activist of the Belarusian Popular Front party from Haradok Leonid Autukhov. The oppositionist took an active part in celebrating Freedom Day in the regional center on March 25, for which he was punished with 15 days of administrative arrest under article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding a mass event).

From the beginning of September in the forests of the Viciebsk region were looking for nine stray mushroom pickers, said the official representative of the Viciebsk regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Marina Fando, specifying that it is a case of cases in which the Ministry of Emergency Services was involved.

Judge Yury Urban began to announce the verdict against Olga Stepanova on September 7 at 14:20 in the Railway District Court of Viciebsk. The verdict of the judge is 6 months of restriction of freedom in the colony-settlement for causing death by negligence. The defendant was changed the measure of restraint to a written undertaking not to leave, and she was released from custody in the courtroom.

In Połacak, delegations of writers, publishers, cultural figures from 12 countries are waiting. The organizing committee of the holiday included officials and chairman of the pro-government Union of Writers of Belarus Nikolai Cherginets. And the deputy chairman of the Union of Belarusian Writers Vsevolod Steburak said that they had not received an official invitation to the festival for their alternative union.

Young people who accused the Viciebsk OMON in the beating, received fines from 5 to 15 basic units. This decision was made on August 24 by the court of Pervomaisky district of the regional center. The trial for this administrative case, chaired by Judge Natalia Korablina, was taking place from August 8, writes Tut.by.

A group of pupils and teachers of the gymnasium of German Nienburg helps in the improvement of the territory of the former Viciebsk ghetto and other important places for the Jewish community, said the head of secondary school No. 21 Sergei Zybin.

Alexander Lukashenko compared the profitability of flax growing with profitability from the extraction and sale of oil and instructed to manage in the flax industry "Stalinist methods". The head of Belarus visited on August 19 the Republican Production Unitary Enterprise "Ustye" of the National Academy of Sciences in the Vorša district.