In the offices of the concert hall "Vitebsk" say on " Spiritual Discussions " Ivan Ohlobystina , an event held on October 12 , all tickets have been sold two weeks ago. "As you sleep all ? Now watch - maybe someone will pass " - advised the cashier . Tickets for " Spiritual Discussions " Ohlobystina cost from 120 to 280 thousand rubles. Great Hall of the hall " Vitebsk" has 1100 seats.

At a press conference held on July 11 at the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee and the opening of the XXII International Art Festival "Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk", Minister of Culture of Belarus Boris Svetlov addressed reporters in Belarusian. It's not like Russian media representatives accredited to the forum. Following an introduction by the Minister in the forefront of the hall, where the majority of staff were sitting Russian media reports, angry voices were heard: "And now we turn what you said".

Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council BPF Leanid Autuchou received a reply to his appeal to the Governor Alexander Kosinets for the protection of historical and cultural heritage in the town of Smolyany near Orsha. According to the reply signed by the deputy chairman of the executive committee Vladimir Terentyeva three requests set out in circulation, the regional authorities have decided to meet just one.

A plaque in honor of Nicholas Kaspyarovich - outstanding Belarusian scientist who died in Stalin's purges mill - was opened in Vitebsk on May 21 at the building number 4 on the street Krylov. Before that Kaspiarovich in Belarus was marked only homemade board in the village Izabalevo Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, where he was born May 21 (New Style) 1900.

In Vitebsk, in the local "European House" held a gala evening dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Kalinouski and the 95th anniversary of the Belarusian People's Republic.