Measures to spruce up Polotsk and Novopolotsk ahead of the 11th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia were discussed at a working meeting chaired by Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova.
Latvian teenager Ilya Karoza, who interviewed the Belarusian president, and his family received Belarusian passports in a ceremony in Vitebsk on 29 August.