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VITEBSK, 19 April (BelTA) – In January-March 4,700 residents of Vitebsk Oblast received Br1.7 billion worth of state targeted social assistance (STSA), BelTA learned from the committee for labor, employment and social protection of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. One-parent families account for 27% of the total number of the targeted social aid recipients, two-parent families with one or two children for 12%, families with tree and more children for 13%, families with handicapped...

VITEBSK, 15 April (BelTA) – A delegation of the French canton of Chauffailles is set to get familiar with the development of agricultural production and education in Vitebsk Oblast. Guests from the partner city will be received in Novopolotsk on 16-22 April, BelTA learnt from Deputy Chairman of the Novopolotsk Town Council Vyacheslav Durnov. The French city and Novopolotsk have an agreement on cooperation in the economic, cultural and social areas. This time the French delegation...

VITEBSK, 15 April (BelTA) – A delegation of the French canton of Chauffailles is set to get familiar with the development of agricultural production and education in Vitebsk Oblast. Guests from the partner city will be received in Novopolotsk on 16-22 April, BelTA learnt from Deputy Chairman of the Novopolotsk Town Council Vyacheslav Durnov. The French city and Novopolotsk have an agreement on cooperation in the economic, cultural and social areas. This time the French delegation...

VITEBSK, 13 April (BelTA) – The Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee has charged district executive committees with providing the necessary aid to residents of Miory District, Sharkovshchina District and Glubokoye District, who have been affected by the 11 April Minsk metro bombing, representatives of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA. According to the latest data of the Healthcare Department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, there are four Vitebsk Oblast residents...

VITEBSK, 12 April (BelTA) – The Miory District Executive Committee is ready to provide aid to families of Miory residents, who have been affected by the explosion in Minsk’s metro, Deputy Chairman of the Miory District Executive Committee Maria Banifatova told BelTA. At present students for Miory, 19 year-old Yulia Shokel and 20-year-old Andrei Lyutsky, are in Minsk hospitals. The state of the boy is satisfactory while the state of the girl is grave. In the morning of 12 April Maria...

VITEBSK, 11 April (BelTA) – An exhibition of innovative projects from researchers and manufacturers of Vitebsk Oblast will be held as part of the investment and innovation forum “Vitebsk Oblast Investment Initiatives” for the first time on 20-21 May, representatives of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee told BelTA. The forum is supposed to invigorate bilateral cooperation between regions, towns, economic entities, to contribute to increasing the export and...