New Year's Eve Ball in the Palace of Independence

The New Year's Eve Ball at the Palace of Independence has brought together young hopefuls from all over Belarus on 24 December.

Partaking in the New Year’s Eve Ball are 337 young men and women from all regions. They were invited to the event in recognition of their achievements in education, creative work, sports, social life. The ball has brought together holders of scholarships of the president’s special fund for the social support of talented students, winners and participants of contests, academic excellence competitions, conferences, representatives of the volunteer movement and members of student brigades, winners of beauty pageants, medalists of sports competitions.

Partaking in the event are also Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, State Secretary of the Security Council Aleksandr Volfovich, Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Lutsky, Culture Minister Anatoly Markevich, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko, Chairman of the Minsk City Hall Vladimir Kukharev, member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Dmitry Baskov, member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly Maria Vasilevich.