Events

Lukashenko signs decree to grant citizenship to 257 people from 16 states
They came from 16 countries including Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Syria, Palestine, and other ones...

Belarus admits around 120,000 Ukrainian citizens since 2024 year-start
Since 24 February 2022, a total of 266,277 citizens of Ukraine have arrived in Belarus...

Lukashenko shares his fear as president
There should be no cult of the leader in Belarus, and there is no and cannot be any dictatorship here...

Lukashenko talks about reasons for internet shutdown in August 2020
The future of the country hang in the balance, the president stressed. If the country had not been held together then, it could have gone to war, among other things...

Lukashenko comments on the need to make unpopular decisions
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko was asked why does he has to make unpopular decisions during a Q&A session titled “Open Microphone with the President” at Minsk State Linguistic University on 22 November...

Lukashenko to Minsk students: It is easy to demand changes but difficult to implement them
He noted that now the country is living through a period when one can speak out and express one’s point of view. The answer to the main question will be given on 26 January during the presidential election in Belarus...

Ambassador: Belarus supports convergence of potentials of Eurasian countries
The head of the Belarusian diplomatic mission noted that the work on the draft Eurasian Charter continued at the 2nd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security that took place three weeks ago...

Kochanova: Belarus eager to further cooperation with Uzbekistan
Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova met with Chairwoman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Tanzila Narbayeva on the sidelines of the regular session of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) Council in St. Petersburg, Russia on 21 November...

Parliament speakers of Belarus, Russia meet in St. Petersburg
Inter-parliamentary cooperation between the countries has been growing. Under the auspices of the upper chambers of the parliaments of Russia and Belarus, important projects for the countries are being effectively implemented...

Belarus in favor of closer inter-parliamentary ties with Azerbaijan
Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova said during a meeting with Chairwoman of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova on the sidelines of the regular session of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) Council in St. Petersburg, Russia on 21 November...

Lukashenko asks journalists to convey message to media chiefs
"I would ask the journalists to tell their bosses: if any of the presidential candidates who are collecting signatures wants to say something the way I am saying it now, offer your platform to them [other candidates who are collecting signatures to be nominated as presidential candidates]"...

Lukashenko appreciates FTUB’s initiative to collect signatures in his support
Meeting with all the members of the initiative group seems a challenge as there are more than 17,000 of them across the country...

Lavrov to visit Belarus’ Brest on 21-22 November
“On 21-22 November, Sergey Lavrov will pay a working visit to Brest to attend a joint meeting of the boards of the Russian and Belarusian Ministries of Foreign Affairs,” Maria Zakharova said...

Kochanova to attend CIS IPA Council meeting in Russia’s St. Petersburg
Chairperson of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova is expected to take part in the discussion of agenda issues at the meeting of the CIS IPA Council and hold a number of bilateral international meetings on the sidelines of the event...

Lukashenko pardons 32 more felons convicted for extremist crimes
Among them there are 8 women and 24 men. All of them pleaded guilty, repented of what they had done and petitioned for pardon...

Lukashenko instructs to draw up clear guidelines for Belarusian People’s Congress delegates
He clarified that this is a general structure. Given that only the first meeting took place, Aleksandr Lukashenko instructed to finalize this system without bureaucracy and additional unnecessary superstructures in the form of commissions or advisory bodies...

Next meeting of Belarusian People's Congress to be held after presidential election
Aleksandr Lukashenko recalled that Belarus' presidential election will be held on 26 January and spoke about the program that will be presented to voters...

Krutoi presents draft decree on new powers of district authorities in Belarus
Speaking about the main innovations, Dmitry Krutoi explained that the document suggests new powers of the chairmen of the district executive committees, in particular, in such areas of activity as budget and finance, construction and improvement, human resources...

Kenya seeks closer cooperation with Belarus in agriculture
The parties discussed the issues of political, trade, economic, and humanitarian cooperation between Belarus and Kenya. Consideration was also given to the exchange of visits at different levels and conduct of ministerial consultations...

Lukashenko: Chairpersons of district executive committees are underloaded
One of the items on the agenda of the meeting was raising the status of chairpersons of district executive committees in order to strengthen their role in regional development...