Today, residents of Vitebsk addressed housing and communal problems, questions about salaries and services for people with disabilities to the assistant to the President - Inspector for Vitebsk Oblast Anatoly Linevich during a reception of citizens and a direct line at the administration of the Zheleznodorozhny district of the Oblast center.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

The average salary in Belarus will go up two times within the next five years.

The second building of the regional Palace of Children and Youth opened in Vitebsk today after renovation.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has ratified a package of international agreements at an extraordinary session on 3 August, BelTA has learned.

The Economy Office of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee announces a competition for investment projects of business entities to provide state financial support.

Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei had a phone conversation with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz on 31 July, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev and Minister-Counsellor, acting head of the Ukrainian Embassy in Belarus Piotr Vrublevsky were invited one by one to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, BelTA has learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Workers of construction organizations that reconstructed the bridge and local residents were invited to the grand opening of the road junction.

The adoption of the development strategy for the Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS) through 2030 was one of more than 20 issues included in the agenda of the 57th meeting of the council. The meeting was held in the format of a video conference, BelTA learned from the press service of the State Committee for Standardization of Belarus.

Gagarin Street in Vitebsk is planned to be reconstructed in a year, but the trams will not return to it, Vladimir Belous, deputy chairman of the oblast executive committee, said.

More than 300 polling stations will be involved in the exit poll at the forthcoming presidential election in Belarus, Candidate of Science [Sociology], scientific adviser of the poll Igor Pinchuk told reporters on 28 July, BelTA has learned.

The representative of Belarus Roman Voloznev won the Grand Prix of the XXIX Pop Song Performers Contest "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk".

The Central Election Commission has published the information on the number of voters in Belarus and abroad – 6,844,932, BelTA learned from the CEC website.

For the second year in a row, a representative of Belarus wins a children's music competition. Last year we were pleased with Ksenia Galetskaya; this year, jury awarded the Grand Prix to Angelina Lomako.

On 24 July Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko is set to go on a working trip to Pukhovichi District where he will inspect the 5th Special Operations Brigade in Maryina Gorka, BelTA reports.

Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei will pay a working visit to Latvia on 24 July, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its Facebook page, BelTA has learned.

In Vitebsk, a festive start-up ceremony for traffic on the Polotsky overpass after a large-scale reconstruction took place. According to the initial plans, it was assumed that the construction work will take almost five years. However, specialists, working at night and in an unusually warm winter, coped with it in 20 months.