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.

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.

Połacak began to delay the payment of pensions to bank cards. Thus, Priorbank delayed the payment of a pension for two days. Pensioners, who received a pension on the 7th, received only the 9th in August. Bank employees say that the Połacak Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection did not provide lists for the payment of pensions.

In all regions of the Viciebsk oblast prosecutor's office revealed violations of the order of the public procurement procedures, which creates a fertile ground for corruption.

During the first 9 months of this year 375 unemployed (– 388 for the same period last year) was officially registered in the Haradok district. During this time, the work found 273 residents of the area. Such data are the Employment Service in the region.