News & Events in Belarus

President’s most important duty is security of the state
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with the non-state media on 4 august...

Lukashenko: Belarus interested in full-fledged cooperation with the USA
"If you put forward the ideas which will help enhance our country’s sovereignty, the ideas which will help improve the wellbeing of the Belarusian people, we will be grateful to you and will start using them immediately"...

Romanovich brings first Tbilisi 2015 gold to Belarus
Belarus has so far won two medals (one gold and one bronze) at the Tbilisi 2015. Vladislav Bulakhov clinched bronze in the long jump with the result of 6.88m...

Lukashenko urges to enhance cooperation in mineral exploration with other countries
“Many countries have abundant natural resources, and the leaders of these countries are interested in cooperation with us. These include Venezuela, Zimbabwe, other Latin American and African countries"...

Lukashenko: BelNPP is an example of nuclear power plant of the future
“We are building the world’s best nuclear power plant. Thus Russia, together with us, wants to show what nuclear power plants should be in the future,” the President noted. He stressed that the NPP construction should not be expedited. All works should be on schedule and of high quality...

Drozdovskaya wins Olympic Classes Sailing Championships 2015 gold
Belarus’ leading yachtswoman in the Laser Radial class and the leader the national sailing team had six qualifying and six final successful races to collect 66 points and claim the victory...

Lukashenko: Retirement age will not be raised in Belarus
"You know my opinion on the issue. We told people that with certain retirement age we will have a certain amount of the pension fund that will be divided between all pensioners"...

Belarus meets five UN Millennium Development Goals ahead of schedule
Belarusian representatives have contributed a lot to the elaboration of the Sustainable Development Goals in 17 oblasts which the participants of the UN 2015 summit are set to approve in New York in September...

Lukashenko calls on state leaders to get more involved in Ukraine settlement
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said as he met with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Serbia’s First Vice Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic in Minsk...

Lukashenko: No barriers to Belarus-Zimbabwe all-round cooperation
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said during a meeting with Zimbabwe Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa...

Lukashenko: Belarus ready to implement new projects with Moldova, promote joint products to EU
"I am confident that our meeting will be an important stage in the development of Belarusian-Moldovan relations and will give an additional impetus to the cooperation in all spheres," said the President of Belarus...

Third gold for Belarusian Ihar Boki in Glasgow
On July 15 Ihar Boki celebrated the win in the men’s 100m backstroke S13 with the result of 56.74, which was a new world record in S13 and Ihar’s second world record of the meet...

Belarus becoming center of international political and cultural dialogue
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said when speaking at the closing ceremony of the 24th International Festival of Arts Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk...

Four gold medals for Belarus at Summer Universiade in Gwangju
Belarusian Tatiana Kholodovich was victorious in the Women’s Javelin Throw final with the result of 60m 45cm. the Belarusian was 19cm ahead of her nearest rival Lina Muze of Latvia...

Belarus’ Tsurkin collects 50m freestyle gold in Gwangju
The Belarusian was two seconds ahead of Brazil’s Henrique De Souza Martins (22.24). The bronze went to Paul Powers of the United States (22.34)...

Belarus gets observer status in Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The leaders also signed a decision to initiate the procedure for the admission of India and Pakistan to the SCO. The status of dialogue partner was given to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Nepal...

Viktoria Kolb brings first gold to Belarus at European Athletics U23 Championships
In the decisive round of six attempts the Belarusian held second position among twelve best athletes with the result of 17.02m until the final attempt. Her final throw of 17.47m won her gold of the championships...

Slavonic Bazaar helps preserve cultural identity of nations, Lukashenko says
“A pleiad of famous artists has debuted on the stage of our Summer Amphitheater over the past two decades”...

Lukashenko: Belarus is ready to embrace active cooperation with BRICS
“We don’t have conflicts in our own territory and don’t pose problems for the neighbors. We steadily take care of the security of the common borders and of the transit of energy resources. We effectively counteract drugs trafficking and illegal migration. We pursue a peace-loving foreign policy”...

Belarus, Mongolia interested in closer cooperation
"Our people are very similar, they are hardworking and kind. We can sell various things to each other. I think that it would be great to organize expert groups at the level of governments to study various cooperation avenues and even develop concrete projects”...