70th anniversary of the Great Victory

Joint projects on WW2 by Belarusian and Russian archive services
"This year the archive service of Belarus jointly with the Russian colleagues carried out the exhibition project We Held Out and Won to mark the 70th anniversary of the Victory"...

Belarus to partake in CIS Coordination Council of Veteran Organizations in Moscow
The agenda of the Coordination Council plenum will include the issues related to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the efforts of CIS veterans’ councils on further cohesiveness of the veteran movement, strengthening of friendship between the CIS peoples and resolute opposition to any manifestations of extremism and nationalism...

Patriarch Kirill to lead Divine Liturgy in Brest on 22 June
"It is with special feeling that I will visit Brest on 22 June. I hope to conduct the Divine Liturgy there on the day when the Great Patriotic War broke out," Patriarch Kirill said...

Bulegenov: Memory of Great Patriotic War is sacred in Belarus
“We are endlessly thankful to the Belarusian people and government for the commemoration of Kazakh soldiers and all Red Army defenders," Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Belarus Ergali Bulegenov said...

Book about Kazakhs who fought in Belarus during WWII presented in Minsk
The book about Kazakhs who fought in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War was issued by the publishing house Petrus Brovka Belarusian Encyclopedia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Victory...

Brest Fortress Chronicle in Pictures expo opens in Moscow
The exhibition, Brest Fortress Chronicle in Pictures, is held as part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War...

Belarus Ambassador in Germany attends commemoration for Soviet soldiers at Lebus War Cemetery
"During the conversation with the President of Germany the parties noted the importance and timeliness of the apology offered by Gernot Erler, an official representative of the German Government, on behalf of Germany to the Belarusian people for the suffering during the war"...

Gusakov: Belarus highly appreciates participation of Chinese delegation in Victory Day celebrations
"Our peoples had much in common in the past. Therefore we would like to start working on a joint research paper or a monograph on the history of the Second World War which would cover its course in the lands of Belarus and China in new dimensions"...

USA grateful to Belarus, Russia, Ukraine in V-E Day anniversary commemoration
Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Belarus in the USA Pavel Shidlovsky took part in the ceremony of laying wreaths in the National WWII Memorial in Washington...

Belarusian diplomats attend ceremony to commemorate Mauthausen prisoners
The Belarusian diplomats also laid wreaths and flowers to the stele in Ried in der Riedmark in honor of the Soviet prisoners of war who were killed in February 1945 after an attempt to escape from the concentration camp Mauthausen...