Press releases

Interactive map of Minsk with places of interest presented in BelTA
The interactive map offers information about over 200 places of recreation and entertainment in the Belarusian capital: theaters, parks, sport complexes. Every place has a description, photos, and directions. Some of them even offer a virtual tour, a 3D panorama, audio and video records...

Minsk ghetto victims commemorated in New York
During the ceremony the former prisoner of the Minsk ghetto, member of the underground movement Savely Kaplinsky and the Belarusian partisan who was part of the Jewish resistance Hone Epstein received the commemorative medals signed by U.S. President Donald Trump...

Anastasia Salos of Belarus wins four medals at Grand Prix Holon 2019
The Belarusian clinched gold in the all-around event scoring a total of 80,300 points...

Belarus to present over 500 editions at Red Square book festival in Moscow
"The stand will highlight several important themes, including the 75th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from Nazi invaders, the 2nd European Games and the Year of Native Land"...

Belarusian Education Days underway in Moscow
The diplomat recalled that humanitarian contacts were in focus of the February meeting of the presidents of Belarus and Russia. The presidents discussed educational partnerships and gave instructions to harmonize educational and scientific standards and youth programs...

EuroVelo 2 European Capitals bicycle route to pass through Belarus
The EuroVelo 2 bicycle route was dubbed Capitals Route because it passes through six European capital cities. The Capitals Route starts in Galway in the West of Ireland and goes through the territory of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Belarus and reaches its easternmost point in Moscow...

Azarenka, Barty breeze into French Open doubles second round
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka and Australia's Ashleigh Barty eased past Australia 's Ajla Tomljanovic nd Serbian Aleksandra Krunic 6-1, 6-1 in the Roland Garros doubles opener...

Belarus hosts Cambodia Culture Days
The opening ceremony will be held in the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society and will feature a concert of dance companies and soloists-instrumentalists of Cambodia. A similar concert will be held in the Palace of Culture in Molodechno on 30 May...

Partisan Chronicles: Heroes of the Soviet Motherland. Lizyukov Brothers
A new page in the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History tells about the heroes – the Lizyukov brothers...

Kupala Night Festival in Belarusian Alexandria to draw participants from seven countries
The festival will be themed around the three-year Native Land program. It will bring together representatives of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland...

New open-air museum in Belovezhskaya Pushcha to open on 1 June
Guests of the launch event will be able to immerse themselves in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. An ancient settlement has been recreated in the flood plain of the Lesnaya Pravaya River near the village of Kamenyuki close to the main entrance to the park...

Belarus study center opens in Nanjing University of Science and Technology
The new center will also develop education tourism and organize education programs on summer and winter holidays for the academic staff, students and post-graduates from Belarus and China...

MTZ tractors to race in Bison Track Show near Russian Rostov on 2 June
It will be the 17th race on record. Participants of the event will have to race for time, overcome water obstacles, participate in a paired closed-circuit race with interchangeable lanes...

International folk dance festival due in Brest on 1-2 June
Taking part in the festival will be children and youth from Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia. The contestants specialize in folk dances...

UNESCO pays tribute to Stanislaw Moniuszko
Ambassador of Belarus to France Igor Fisenko highlighted Stanislaw Moniuszko's great contribution to the creation of the Belarusian national opera, close connection of his works to Belarusian folklore and national musical traditions...

Chizhovka Arena to host 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division I
According to Gennady Savilov, Belarus will face very strong opponents for the only berth to the top division. It is necessary to take full advantage from the Belarusian application...

EU, UNDP regional climate change program presented in Minsk
"The EU spearheads environment protection and climate change efforts and the Eastern Partnership countries play an important role in our joint efforts to achieve green development. The new EU4Climate program will contribute to low CO2 emission and climate resilient development of Belarus"...

Belarus to host 2019 IIHF U20 World Championship Division I
The decision was taken at the 2019 IIHF Annual Congress in Bratislava. Another bidder for the event was Austria...

First day cover ceremony honoring Year of Education of Belarus in China held in Minsk
The stamped envelope has been prepared by Belpochta in cooperation with the Education of Belarus and the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone...

Belarusian doctors perform liver transplantation in Japanese woman
According to Oleg Rummo, this project attests to the high level of Belarusian transplant surgery. Earlier the Japanese woman had her diseased liver replaced by foreign doctors, but the allograft liver was rejected. Belarusian doctors agreed to do re-grafting...