Press releases

Mir Castle to host Legacy of Centuries festival 27-30 June
The forum will gather the best medieval reenactors including from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Austria, musicians performing medieval and folk music, dancing groups, medieval craft workshops and a fire show...

International experts to discuss modern economic issues in Grodno on 23-24 May
The second international science-to-practice conference “Problems of the modern economy: global, national and regional context” will be held at the faculty of economics and management of the Yanka Kupala Grodno State University...

Belarus to host Irish dancing championship 25 May
The 6th Minsk Open Feis, Irish dancing competitions, will take place in the village of Bolshoi Trostenets, Minsk District...

Alyona Lanskaya to participate in Slavonic Bazaar opening ceremony
On the stage of the Summer Amphitheater will come Edita Piekha, Kristina Orbakaite, Yelena Vayenga, Dima Bilan, Anatoly Yarmolenko, Inna Afanasieva, Tina Karol, Roza Rymbayeva, Al Bano, In-Grid, the Gipsy Kings...

Belarusian ballet theater to stage Swan Lake at Trakai Fortress
This project is very challenging on the technical part. This will require a special stage setting, sound and lighting equipment. The lake will make a live set design. The production at the foot of the famous fortress will feature all leading dancers of the theater...

Zaslavl to host 2013 European Rowing Junior Championships 24-26 May
Partaking in the 13-event competitions will be 450 athletes from 27 countries...

Zabor art project coming to Gomel
The expo will feature some 40 reproductions of modern Belarusian artists that are to be displayed on the main part of the fence of the Palace of Rumyantsevs-Paskeviches...

Over 150 tales about modern Belarus sent for UNESCO competition
The competition of tales about modern Belarus is a part of the unique Belarusian-Omani project aimed at the European-Arab dialogue between West and East...

Experts from 15 countries to attend international media forum in Belarus
The 8th international media forum in Belarus "Partnership for the Future: Historical and Cultural Heritage as a Factor of Unity" will be held in Minsk will bring together experts from Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, France, and also the CIS member states...

Belarus, Latvia launch culinary heritage development project
The Bella Cuisine project will be implemented in the Polotsk, Lepel, Miory, Glubokoye and Verkhnedvinsk regions of Vitebsk Oblast and the Aglona, Kraslava, Dagda, Rezekne and Ludza territories of Latgale District (Latvia)...