Press releases

Athletes from 22 countries to compete at Minsk sambo tournament
"Minsk will host sambo wrestlers from Angola for the first time. Belarus will field some 60 athletes at the forthcoming event"...

About 200 Chinese students returning to Belarus to be placed at Zagorie center
Students who come back to Belarus from China will undertake mandatory recuperation and acclimatization programs...

Lukashenko visits Raubichi ahead of IBU Open European Championships
"If there is no rain, we will host the IBU European championships and the IBU World Cup at a good level"...

Chinese students returning to Belarus to undergo recuperation
These are the students who were not exposed to coronavirus, who came from unaffected regions, and who were under quarantine in China...

Minsk among top three most romantic cities in Europe
In addition to Minsk, the top ten includes St. Petersburg, Paris, Kaliningrad, Prague, Yekaterinburg, Amsterdam, Baku, Yerevan, and Tallinn...

Raubichi to host IBU European Open Biathlon Championships
The European Championships were reallocated as the organizers could not guarantee the conditions required for hosting the event because of the warm weather in Estonia...

Orthodox music festival in Grodno to feature record number of participating countries
"The festival will bring together participants from eleven countries. This is the biggest number we have had so far, which highlights the importance of the Kolozhsky Blagovest festival for the Orthodox world"...

Belarus’ new channel to go on air in 2021
"In line with our plans, this channel will be on air from early morning till late at night. It is highly likely that each news item will be repeated for several one-hour cycles until it is changed to accommodate new information or displaced by fresh stories"...

Half of tickets for UEFA Futsal Champions League finals in Minsk sold in less than week
In view of the high demand, all-game tickets will be on sale until 18.00 on 14 February...

Raubichi ready to host IBU European Open Biathlon Championships
"If we take the responsibility of hosting the European event, the IBU is ready to bring forward the IBU World Cup. It will start on 3 March rather than 5 March, as it was initially planned, and will end two days earlier"...

BC Tsmoki Minsk reach EWBL Final Four
The four winners of the quarterfinals will progress to the main stage of the competitions (21-22 March)...

Over 260 Belarusian athletes gearing up for Tokyo 2020
So far, the Olympic qualifying requirements have been met by 69 Belarusian athletes in 15 sports...

Over 52,000ha of new woodland in Belarus in 2019
This year foresters are set to plant and replant trees on an area of at least 38,000 hectares...

Belarusian athletes win 843 medals at major international tournaments in 2019
Over half of the medals were won by junior teams...

Belarusian pastry chefs to take part in IKA/Culinary Olympics
"Belarusian pastry chefs will present complex art compositions made of chocolate, mastic, marzipan, pastilage and salt dough using various manufacturing techniques"...

Number of visa-free tourists in Brest Oblast up by 70% in January
In January the region was mostly visited by individual travelers. Only a third of tourists came as part of tour groups...

Belarus reach 2020 Fed Cup finals
The doubles rubber turned to be a decider, in which Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich fought through Kiki Bertens and Demi Schuurs 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10-8)...

Belarus registers novel cancer drug
The idea, its implementation, production technology, substantiation of safety and efficiency of the medicine were done by scientists of the Research Institute for Physical and Chemical Problems of Belarusian State University...

Maryna Slutskaya wins silver at Paris Grand Slam 2020
The Belarusian came through four bouts victorious to lose to France’s Romane Dicko in the final...

Khrushch voted 2021 IIHF World Championship mascot in Belarus
The Latvian audience picked up Hedgehog...