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29 Oct 2015
Lewis names Team Belarus roster for Euro Ice Hockey Challenge training camp
Team Belarus will hold its training camp at Minsk Arena on 2-4 November. After that the Belarusian national team will travel to Latvia’s Liepaja to play Italy...
28 Oct 2015
Chamber ensembles from five countries to compete in Oginsky International Competition
The event will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Michal Kleofas Oginski celebrated in 2015. The list of participants includes 24 ensembles (85 musicians) from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania...
27 Oct 2015
Scientists from 22 countries partaking in Physics Week in Minsk
“Physics Week opened on 27 October with the International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (ICQOQI'2015). The working language of the conference is English, which attests to the high level of the event”...
27 Oct 2015
Days of Polish Cinema in Mogilev on 12-15 November
Belarusian movie enthusiasts will be offered a retrospective of films by Polish director Krzysztof Krauze. He is also famous as a scriptwriter, cameraman, actor, and intellectual. Krzysztof Krauze is one of the most renowned modern Polish directors of auteur films...
26 Oct 2015
18 countries apply for Minsk International Christmas Singing Competition
The first Minsk International Christmas Singing Competition was held in December 2014 and drew a wide response in the music world. The first forum gathered more than 150 young singers from 20 countries...
26 Oct 2015
Belarus, UAE step up cooperation in sport
The visit of Belarusian delegation took place within the framework of the memorandum of understanding signed by the Presidential Sport Club and the Abu Dhabi Ice Sports Club in Minsk in January 2015...
26 Oct 2015
Baranovichi, Orsha, Volkovysk to join Child Friendly City initiative in 2015
Twenty-two Belarusian cities have joined the Child Friendly City initiative so far. This high status was awarded to Brest in 2014...
26 Oct 2015
Poll: Foreign customers praise Belavia service
Citizens of the EU countries, especially from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, who frequently go to Belarus on business trips, noted the high quality of Belavia service...
26 Oct 2015
Minsk to host International Christmas Singing Competition 9-15 December
"Our competition opens unique prospects for personal and professional development. Seven days of the Minsk Singing Competition are full of unforgettable meetings, communication, new contacts and interesting creative offers"...
26 Oct 2015
Marc Chagall’s works on show in French Tourcoing
The exposition showcases tapestry on the motives of Chagall’s lithography and paintings...
25 Oct 2015
Lukashenko presents Francysk Skorina Order to Viktor Drobysh
Viktor Drobysh received this high state award of the Republic of Belarus in recognition of his creativity, personal contribution to the development and strengthening of the Belarusian-Russian cultural ties...
24 Oct 2015
EU, UN to allocate €4.1m for Belarus’ healthcare project
The full name of the project is Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases, Promoting Healthy Lifestyle and Support to Modernization of the Health System in Belarus. The implementation of the project will kick off in 2015...
22 Oct 2015
Former Kyrgyzstan leader presents his memoirs in Minsk
The annotation of the book says that the work is dedicated to the period of Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s life when he was President of Kyrgyzstan (2005-2010)...
21 Oct 2015
International Festival of Modern Choreography in Belarus on 19-22 November
The festival is expected to present the leading dance companies from Mexico, Switzerland, Belarus, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Spain and the United States. Some of them will premiere their shows...
21 Oct 2015
Films from six countries to compete in contest of national film schools at Listapad 2015
This year, the organizers received a record number of applications for the contest of national film schools. The total of 26 short and medium-length films will compete for its prize...
21 Oct 2015
Over 180 films to be presented in Listapad Film Festival
The program of the festival features a total of 184 movies from 60 countries. These are 91 feature films, 70 non-fiction and 23 animated films...
21 Oct 2015
BATE lose to visiting Barcelona in UEFA Champions League
Ivan Rakitic scored twice in the second half as Barcelona won 2-0 at Borisov Arena in the UEFA Champions League group stage action on 20 October...
20 Oct 2015
Belarus wins Grand Prix at international dance festival in Grozny
Belarus’ Yelena Podolskaya and Sergei Mikel proved to be the best in the nomination Contemporary Dance and won the Grand Prix of the festival...
20 Oct 2015
New tourist routes to be presented at Tourbusiness 2015 expo in Minsk
The exposition will showcase a wide range of proposals, including inbound and outbound, sport and entertainment, recreation and medical, family and children’s, hunting tourism...
20 Oct 2015
Zsuzsanna Jakab: WHO often uses Belarus’ progress in healthcare as an example for other countries
"Every two years we sign a bilateral agreement. We are planning to sign a new agreement for 2016-2017. Priorities have already been identified and agreed with the Health Ministry”...
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