May 16, Alexander Lukashenko signed the decree №219 "On the construction of the Vitebsk hydroelectric power station on the Western Dvina river". According to the document, before January 1, 2019 will be implemented Vitebsk hydroelectric complex construction. Contract signed for the construction of RUP "Vitebskenergo" and the Chinese company China National Electric Engineering Co., Ltd.

According to the experts of the NGO "Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia", the grounds for involuntary admission Vitebsk doctor-love of truth in the "loony bin" was not. In April Igor Postnov traveled to Moscow on an independent survey since sought to disprove the diagnosis made him Vitebsk psychiatrists. He also sought to verify whether it was necessary to "isolate" it from society by confinement in the psychiatric ward of a court decision.

Local rescuers received a message from the hostess to the garage. According to her, a man collapsed wall inspection pit garage. As the press service of the Emergencies Ministry, the 27-year-old man in agreement with the hostess concrete floor of an inspection pit. At this time, one of the collapsed and brick walls. The man filled up with soil.

This former political prisoner reported May 14 in the Department of Citizenship and Migration Department of the Interior Novopolotsk. Reasons for the ban to leave the country to Andrey Gaidukov not explained. The only thing that told - that he leave the country banned the KGB. The local department of Citizenship and Migration request made there, and in response - a notice banning leave Belarus.

Five members of the Conservative Christian Party BPF have applied for holding pickets in the administration of all three districts of Vitebsk. They are going through the pickets to express public protest against the interference of the Russian Federation in the internal affairs of Ukraine, against the use of military force by Russia to resolve international and interstate conflicts. Pickets must pass on June 5.