February 19 territorial election commission Vitebsk considered contenders for the 83 statements mandate candidate Vitebsk City Council of Deputies. For the twelve representatives of opposition political structures and independent local politicians of the nomination results were negative.

Head of the civil campaign "Our House" Olga Karach said that she received a letter from the Department of Education, Sports and Tourism of Administration of the October district of Vitebsk, which says that her son "juvenile Svyatoslav Karatch-Barshcheuski not recognized by those who are at risk".

Vitebsk power that first year are anxious to strongly limit the possibility of any mass rallies opponents of the current political regime seems wrong when measured places forbidden for pickets to collect voters' signatures for nomination of candidates for deputies of local Councils of Deputies. Opposition rally did take place – rally in the downtown! And then, it seems officials did draw conclusions...

For violation of the modernization of "Vitebskdrev" criminal case, said Prosecutor General of Belarus Alexander Kaniuk. Investigation into this matter has already begun, is a prosecutor's check. It will identify the perpetrators of updating production, determine the amount of damages. The prosecutor's office will also identify why not earned modernized factory on time.

Polotsk was so far the only picket to collect signatures for nomination of a candidate for the local council deputies. Signatures gathered for the President of the Free Trade Union of the plant "Fiberglass" Victor Stukov. The picket was organized with the support of the factory workers and the Free Trade Union of the primary factory. The meeting was held on February 5 at 17 pm in the park at Prospect Skarina near the chapel in memory of Polotsk victims of Afghanistan.