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.

An unpleasant incident took place on July 5 with the editor and photographer of the online newspaper "People's news Vitebsk" Sergei Serebro. On the eve of the journalist was preparing photo essay on the impact of heavy rain, which was held in Vitebsk. In particular, it has been of interest pit formed in the center of town, opposite the shopping center "Marco City." About the failure of a group of builders worked. Suddenly, one of them began to act, to put it mildly, strange.

In the information market in Vitebsk region, a new print media - newspaper "Vesti Vitebsk." It brings together two regional editions - "Vitebsk worker" and "People's word.

Opposition activists threatened to preventive detention "Slavonic Bazaar". So a former political prisoner Sergei Kovalenko commented unprecedented government measures to restore order in Vitebsk before the festival.

Belarusian trade union of radio-electronic industry in the interests of organized labor lawyer Valery Misnikov and his daughter Tatyana Misnikova filed a civil suit against the "Belgosstrakh." However, the judge district court of Vitebsk Railway Svetlana Vorotynskaya decided it is not in favor of the plaintiff in accordance with its decision, the state insurance company can not meet its obligations under long-term insurance in 1991.