In early January, a human rights activist Peter Ivanov addressed to the head of the country to help the caretaker of the village brawlers Vitebsk region Leonid Zdrestov (pictured), which literally froze in his house.
"I do not want to mourn for the Belarusian language, but objectively, unfortunately, due to various factors, it is underdeveloped," - noted social activist from Vitebsk Olga Karach in one of the discussions on Facebook. For example, what are the Belarusian conformity to Russian terms "toilet bowl" and "standpipe"? - Karach gave the example.
Transportation of passengers without a license can cost Vitebsk driver fine of up to 13 million and confiscation of the vehicle on which to carry out entrepreneurial activity without state registration, according to "Yezhednyevnik".
October Vitebsk district court dismissed the physician's complaint on the prohibition of a rally-requiem against police lawlessness. Judge Elena Popkova decided that the October district administration was right, forbidding share Igor Postnova that he was going to spend the last year in December.
As of January 1, 2014 the population of Vitebsk region amounted to 1 million 202.2 thousand people. Over the past year the number of residents of Vitebsk decreased by 5.8 thousand people, which is comparable with the population of a small district center, for example, or Ushacha Rosson.
Prosecution authorities Vitebsk region audited compliance with the law on the prevention of child neglect and juvenile delinquency in the institutions of vocational education. As reported by the Attorney General's Office, from 19 institutions tested (all at 27 institutions, which educate 9,493 students) in 10 colleges and high schools revealed significant shortcomings in the organization of preventive work, the educational process, the employment of students in their spare time, and formalism in work on the identification of juveniles at risk.
Crew of independent journalists working with the TV channel "Belsat", was detained in Miory. Anastasia Reznikov, Alexander Pateev and Sergey Kryuchkov filming scenes for the program "I have the right" about the inhabitants of the town, who were left without heating.
Member of the public association "Legal Assistance to Population" (Kiev, Ukraine) Alexander Mikulin, who is running in the local councils of deputies, recorded a video message to the people of Vitebsk. In his address, the human rights activist explained why he goes to the deputies: "What am I going? The answer is very simple: I want to live differently."
Editor of site "Vitebsk Popular News" Sergei Serebro said that after the appearance of the text on the site "Bluefilters: alchemy sales of water filters at exorbitant prices", it started to exert pressure. Article was published December 13, 2013. The text details how the reporter was invited to distributors filters his home, and then told of the visit and their methods persuade customers with high quality goods.
The proportion of shares of JSC "Vitebsk Fruit and Vegetable Enterprise" transferred from the regional to the republican property. This decision was made the Council of Ministers № 73 of 27 January 2014, published by the National Legal Internet Portal.