Press releases

Belarusian author nominated posthumously for ALMA Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The list of 237 nominees was announced at the 71st Frankfurt International Book Fair. The list include 49 new names. The candidates represent all continents and are authors, illustrators, reading promoters and storytellers...

Belarus’ Botanical Garden invites for Celtic festival on 26 October
There will be entertainments for everyone. Visitors will be offered a concert, interactive venues, photo zones, a fire show, Irish dances, Games of Highlanders, meetings with druids and Scottish pipers, and a big market of handmade goods...

Minsk Days in Shanghai in November 2019, in Beijing in 2020
The Belarusian capital will host Belgrade Days, Shanghai Days, and Saint Petersburg Days in 2020...

Institute of Belarus Research opens in China
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Kirill Rudy and Deputy Governor of Gansu Province Zhang Shengzhen attended the opening ceremony...

Non-competitive sections of Listapad 2019 film festival presented in Minsk
Six sections of the non-competitive program of feature films are titled Special Screenings, Master Class, Lions Bears Palm Branches, Midnight Passion, Once Upon A Time in the East, Russian Premieres. These sections encompass 20 films shot in Canada, Belarus, Philippines, France, China, Japan...

Bel:Cinema Listapad Industry platform to discuss film project financing
"Bel:Cinema Industry platform will run at the Belarusfilm Studio on 5-8 November"...

Listapad 2019 to run national competition on 5-7 November
“This year's national film competition will be held for the sixth time. We have received 83 applications”...

Belarus, Poland seek to include Augustow Canal into UNESCO World Heritage List
“Many canals have been included in this list. They are interesting in terms of technical solutions. For its part, the Augustow Canal has organically fit into the nature and culture of the region over its 180-year-old history. It still attracts tourists"...

Belarusian State University 25th in QS ranking
“The ranking features 350 top universities out of over 2900 universities of the region. Thus, the BSU is among the top 1% of the best universities in this region”...

Minsk to host international library congress
The delegates will discuss the role of libraries in the information infrastructure of the society, cloud computing technologies, innovative approaches to the organization of services for users and many more...

Athletes from nine countries to compete for Marina Lobach Trophy
First held in 2002, the competitions have occupied an important place in the international calendar of sport events in Belarus...

Minsk hosting numismatic conference to mark 25th anniversary of Belarusian ruble
The conference has gathered about 60 representatives of big museums, central banks, leading numismatologists, researchers of the history of currency, banking and modern minting from seven countries: Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Belarus...

Gold for Belarus at 2019 World Beach Games
Jutta Menestrina of Finland recorded 49.3m to place second. Bronze went to Belarus’ Hanna Straltsova (49m)...

Minsk film festival Listapad unveils its full lineup for 2019
The 26th Minsk International Film Festival Listapad will be held on 1-8 November 2019 under the slogan “To Joy”...

Growing interest in Belarus’ rural tourism noted
Rural tourism estates have already welcomed visitors from over 70 countries, including Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, the US, the UK, Israel, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia...

Brest Hero Fortress named best Slavic heritage site
The awards ceremony took place in the city of Bar in Montenegro. This year’s competition featured 25 museums from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Russia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia, and Czechia...

Xi Jinping’s book on governance of China to be translated into Belarusian
A memorandum of cooperation has been concluded during the visit of the China publishers’ delegation to Belarus...

Great Patriotic War Museum in Minsk to open new exhibition in October
“All museum items will be displayed for the first time. I can assure you that we have not done anything like this before," the director said...

Idea to launch Belarusian TV channel in Ukraine meets presidential approval
Ukrainian TV channels are broadcast in Belarus as of this year. The Ukrainian leader believes it is important to expand cooperation in this sphere. “It seems like a very good idea to me,” he said...

Belarus, Ukraine mull over Olympics joint bid
The head of state recalled the 2nd European Games and The Match Europe v USA that Minsk had recently hosted. Ukrainian athletes took an active part in these competitions and performed successfully there...