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27 Aug 2018
French exhibition in Minsk to show behind the scenes of fashion, film industries
The exhibition will feature the photographs of great actors and directors such as Alain Delon, Jean-Pierre Melville, Isabelle Adjani and other French celerities. It will also display the portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Miles Davis...
27 Aug 2018
Belarus’ National Library to present facsimile edition of 1618 Primer on 28 August
The large-scale project to recreate the 1618 edition aims to make the first Primer accessible to a wide audience and to demonstrate the high value of the cultural heritage of the Belarusian people...
27 Aug 2018
Aryna Sabalenka in WTA Top 20 ahead of US Open
Last week Aryna Sabalenka was ranked 25th in the WTA rankings and moved up 5 positions after winning the 2018 Connecticut Open in New Haven, the United States...
26 Aug 2018
Belarus wins eight medals at 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Gold medals were collected by Gleb Solodukha and Denis Makhlai (Men’s C2 200m), Kamila Bobr and Elena Nozdreva (Women’s C2 200m) and Artyom Kozyr (Men’s C1 200m)...
24 Aug 2018
Diplomats from 7 countries to attend Belarusian Written Language Day celebrations
Tourists are recommended to visit the settlement of Yanovo that will turn 595 years in 2018, the Napoleon Orda Museum in the village of Vorotsevichi, the ancestral place of the Dostoyevsky family in the village of Dostoyevo, the agrotown of Motol where Israel’s first president was born...
23 Aug 2018
Belarusian folk tales to be published in China
Following the meeting in the university’s publishing house FLTRP, Director of the publishing house Mastatskaya Litaratura Ales Badak signed an agreement on the publication of a series of books “Conceptual Matters of Chinese Culture"...
23 Aug 2018
All-China Youth Federation delegation to visit Belarus in September
In her words, the parties are discussing the opportunity to set up a Belarusian-Chinese youth business incubator. The similar project is implemented in Russia and has already proved efficient. The economic effect from the Russian-Chinese youth business incubator amounted to $230 million over the past year...
23 Aug 2018
Medals for Belarus at UEC Junior/U23 Track European Championships
One of the leaders of the Belarusian national team Yauheni Karaliok clinched bronze in the U23 Men’s Elimination Race. The event was won by Belgium, with Russia taking silver. Denis Mazur claimed silver in the U18 Men’s Elimination Race...
23 Aug 2018
Belarus' hurdler Elvira Herman victorious in Poland’s Chorzow
2018 Berlin European champion Elvira Herman won the Women’ 100m Hurdles at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial international athletic meeting in Chorzow, Poland...
22 Aug 2018
Belarusian books on display at Beijing Book Fair
Speaking to China’s SSTV, Belarus Deputy Information Minister, head of the delegation, Igor Buzovsky noted that over the past few years some two dozen books about Chinese history, culture and literature have been published in Belarus...
22 Aug 2018
Serbia hails Belarus’ contribution to development of Slavic languages
The meeting took place as part of the 16th International Congress of Slavists in Belgrade...
22 Aug 2018
Film about BelAZ trucks shortlisted for Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards final
The film about Belarusian haulers is taking part in two nominations: Corporate Image Films and Internal Communication. The film was shot by Novosibirsk’s LBL-Production to mark 70 years of the plant...
22 Aug 2018
Center for Chinese Studies to open at Brest State University
In September 2017 Brest State University signed a cooperation agreement with one of China’s leading educational institutions - Anhui University. A verbal arrangement was reached to set up the Center for Belarusian Studies in the city of Hefei with assistance of the Brest-based university...
22 Aug 2018
Minsk to host Day of Armenian Culture on 25 August
This year the Day of Armenian Culture is timed to the 2,800th anniversary of Yerevan. It will be held under the motto “With Ararat in the heart!”...
21 Aug 2018
Guangzhou to host Belarus-China tourist forum in November
The preparation for the forum was in focus of the meeting between Belarus’ Consul General to Guangzhou Leonid Batyanovsky and Vice General Manager at Guangdong Nanhu International Travel Service Co. LTD Spark Chen...
20 Aug 2018
Tourists from Netherlands become 50,000th visa-free visitors of Grodno District
They arrived in Belarus on a yacht rented in Poland. In Augustow they learned that it was possible to visit Belarus visa free. The tourists from the Netherlands said that it did not take them long to register all the necessary documents, and they crossed the border very fast...
20 Aug 2018
Belarusian wrestlers win three bronze medals in Germany
Belarus’ Greco-Roman wrestler Maksim Kazharsky defeated Viktor Petryk from Ukraine in the 60kg bronze medal event...
20 Aug 2018
Belarus wins 10 gold medals at Para-Swimming European Championships in Dublin
Belarus placed sixth in the medal table with 14 medals...
20 Aug 2018
Belarus to showcase over 150 defense products at Army 2018 expo in Russia
Belarusian defense contractors will bring over 150 products to the expo. Many of them will be demonstrated for the first time...
20 Aug 2018
Experts from 18 countries discussing green solutions for Mogilev
The participants of the summer school are to come up with innovative and eco-friendly solutions to promote the city’s green infrastructure network, in particular in the area of Pechera Lake, Podnikolie, Buinichi, and the Dubrovenka River basin...
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