On January 22 and 23, the II qualifying round for the International Pop Song Performers Competition "Vitebsk" was held in Minsk.
On January 22 and 23, the II qualifying round for the International Pop Song Performers Contest "Vitebsk" and the International Children's Music Contest "Vitebsk" as part of the XXXIII International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" was held in Minsk. Miory district was represented by soloists of the folk pop studio of the Miory Center of Culture and Folk Art Anna Matsukova and Valeria Pavlovskaya (supervisor Tatyana Ivanova).