Press releases

Tatiana Drozdovskaya wins silver at Hempel World Cup Series Final 2019
Tatiana Drozdovskaya of Belarus won the Laser Radial silver at the Hempel World Cup Series Final 2019 in Marseille, France...

Alina Harnasko victorious at FIG Grand Prix Brno Tart Cup 2019
The Belarusian got a total of 21,900 points from the judges. Second was Bulgaria’s Katrin Taseva with a total of 20,900 points. Bronze went to Ukraine’s Viktoriya Onopriyenko (20,750 points)...

Tatsiana Khaladovich wins gold in Germany
One of the leaders of the season threw 62.93m. On 6 June, at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Rome, the Belarusian finishing out of the podium throwing 61.32m...

Youth project to celebrate Belarus’ liberation anniversary to kick off in Minsk on 11 June
The marathon will run around places of military glory till 3 July. Participants will visit Belarusian towns and cities and hold Belarus Remembers dialogues, organize Flowers of Great Victory open air events with themed, interactive, and photo zones, other creative activities...

Minsk to host UEFA Grassroots Conference
The Belarusian capital will host such a large-scale conference for the first time. Participants of the 12th UEFA Grassroots Conference will include representatives of 55 UEFA member states and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)...

15th National Environmental Forum kicks off in Novogrudok
This year the two-day forum will focus on sustainable development of small towns, global challenges and local solutions. It reflects one of the key goals for Belarus and the world which is to preserve natural resources for future generations...

Maksim Nedasekau wins bronze at IAAF Diamond League in Rome
The Belarusian cleared 2.28m on his best try. Gold went to Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko (2.31m). Silver was collected by Majd Eddin Ghazal of Syria (2.28m with fewer tries)...

Great British Festival in Minsk on 23 June
Ambassador Fionna Gibb said that this year's festival will be larger as it will be co-located with the 2nd European Games. Therefore, Minsk should expect a large number of guests from the UK: athletes, fans, musicians and designers...

Andrei Arlionak wins silver at 2019 IWF Junior World Championships
The Belarusian scored 169kg in snatch and 201kg in clean and jerk with a combined total of 370kg...

Mobile app to guide travelers along M6 Minsk-Grodno motorway
It can give directions and contains information about all the places of interest in Grodno Oblast up to 50km away from the motorway...

UNDP project to help improve air quality monitoring in Belarus
World Environment Day is marked today. This year it has been dedicated to the problem of air pollution, which is one of the main risks to health and has an effect on the global climate change...

Partisan Chronicles: Second Front in Europe
“Partisan Chronicles: Second Front in Europe” is a new page in the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History...

Belarusian Brest, Polish Terespol to hold running race on 15 June
The event is an annual event and will be held for the 14th time this year. The race will feature 100 runners, 50 from Belarus and Poland each. The race starts alternately in Brest or Terespol. This year it will be the Polish city...

Belagro 2019 expo opens in Minsk District
One of the main novelties of this year will be an innovative exhibition called “Experimental Field”, with the varieties of grain crops planted here in September 2018...

Minsk National Airport named CIS Best Airport 2018
On 29 May, the Airport Association of CIS Civil Aviation held its annual meeting in Moscow to review the performance in 2018 and honor the winners...

Belarusian book about military medics to be presented in London, Brussels
The book was inspired by the story of life of the author’s mother who was a combat medic during the war. In the summer of 1942 she joined a medical corps of a rifle division fighting in the Northwestern Front in the area of Demyansk...

Belarusian e-vehicles join Electric Marathon
"Our marathon is made up of 30 stages. Three of them are in Belarus: Brest - Mir, Mir - Minsk, Minsk - Gomel. Our race pursues educational purposes. Safety is important for us"...

Belarus working on electric race car
Belarusian cars will become the unofficial participants of the Electric Marathon for the Cup of Andrei Nagel 2019 and will travel along the roads of Belarus with the numbers of the marathon...

Winners of Brest-Minsk leg of Electric Marathon honored in Minsk
The organizers of the marathon, which spans through ten European countries, aim to popularize electric transport and to show that the car with an electric engine can drive from Monte Carlo to St. Petersburg...

Belarus Events Calendar: June 2019
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...