In 2013 Vitebsk became a leader among the regions in terms of growth in property prices , according to Interfax. During the year, the cost per square meter of housing in the Dvina increased by 30.8 % - from 800 to 1066 dollars. Thus, on house prices outstripped the rest of Vitebsk regional centers and is now second only to Minsk.

Co-chairman of the organizing committee of the party " Belarusian Christian Democracy" ( BCD ) , a former political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets " thank God " for the three years he spent in the commandant's office number 7 (a village Kuplin Pruzhansky Brest region ) by a court. This is the politician told reporters in Minsk on October 19 , where he arrived just after liberation.

"On the morality and political correctness as to the identity of the Lukashenko it just does not go. These are two parallel worlds that do not intersect. Even when Lukashenko wants to seem honest and decent politician , then it does not work all the time gets out the inner nature . There is nothing you can do about it - it is such as it is "- as a political prisoner Pavel Seviarynets racist statement said Alexander Lukashenko addressed to Barack Obama.

Vitebsk human rights activists hold a demonstration on the Internet. They began collecting signatures for a petition titled "Freedom for outspoken doctor Igor Postnov forcibly detained in a mental hospital in Belarus". All those who wish to sign a request to the address of the Minister of Health of Belarus to psychiatric re-examination of Dr. Igor Postnov.

Started 20th year of Alexander Lukashenko, whom the civilized world calls the last dictator of Europe. According to the political prisoner Pavel Sevyarinets, Lukashenko - a supporter of the colored Stalinism, and the current Belarus - it is the largest piece of the empire of the USSR.