The Council of Ministers issued Resolution No.649 of on 16 November 2020 to approve a list of urban planning projects to be developed in 2021.

Working days in 2021 are postponed from Friday 8 January to Saturday 16 January and from Monday 10 May to Saturday 15 May, the press service of the Council of Ministers said.

When the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic ends, it is important to seize the opportunities of the global production revival and to use the existing situation wisely, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the government conference held on 17 November to discuss topical foreign policy issues, BelTA informs.

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has sent greetings to Director General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the organization, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian leader.

For the fifth year, the staff of the Energosbyt branch has been massively replacing the electricity metering devices in Vitebsk Oblast.

The Belarusian state is a reality.

Since the beginning of the year, 901 large families in Vitebsk Oblast have received apartments built with state support.

In Vitebsk Oblast, medical institutions used 15-20% of the total number of oxygen points and ventilators for the treatment of patients with pneumonia and COVID-19, said Mikhail Vishnevetsky, head of the main health department of the oblast executive committee.

Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko and Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Belarus Latif Gandilov discussed trade and economic cooperation on 12 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian government.

Every fourth winner at the end of 2019 of the republican competition "Best Exporter" operates in Vitebsk Oblast.

The adoption of a resolution on Belarus by the German Bundestag is blatant interference in the internal affairs of our country, reads the statement by Chairperson of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova and Chairman of the House of Representatives Vladimir Andreichenko in connection with the resolution on the situation in Belarus adopted by the Bundestag on 4 November, BelTA has learned.

Veronika Zabolueva has been appointed Chairman of the Economy Committee of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.

The Belarusian government will support trade unions at all levels, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with Chairman of the Federations of Trade Unions of Belarus (FTUB) Mikhail Orda on 10 November, BelTA informs.

The military commissariats of Vitebsk Oblast called about 7.5 thousand guys to the draft events; about 4 thousand were sent for a medical examination.

The Belarusian People's Assembly will hear different opinions but all of them should be aimed at making the Republic of Belarus stronger, Belarus' Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the first meeting of the national organizing committee for the sixth Belarusian People's Assembly, BelTA has learned.

For social workers of Smolensk and Vitebsk oblasts, a forum was held "Topical issues of rehabilitation of people with disabilities." The participants agreed to continue cooperation and implement a project to create an information and methodological platform.

The construction of Belarus' own nuclear power plant will strengthen the economic sovereignty of the country, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government on 6 November, BelTA has learned.

The list, where the chairman of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Nikolai Sherstnev made a personnel decision, includes 11 positions: from applicants for a leading position to those managers who have agreed to extend their contracts.

Presenting state awards and rank insignia on 5 November Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko emphasized an important role of the people in ensuring prosperity and independence of the state, BelTA has learned.

Vitebsk Oblast hosts a month of planting trees and shrubs in settlements as part of the environmental campaign of the Ministry of Natural Resources "Let`s improve our small homeland".