Press releases

Partisan Chronicles: Brigade Commander Flegontov
A new page in the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History tells about Major General Aleksei Flegontov...

Brest Half Marathon due on 8 September
Over 100 runners from Belarus have already registered for the half marathon. Applications were also received from European countries, Kenya and India...

Minsk students meet with Polish ambassador
Minsk school and university students asked the Polish diplomat about the history, culture, and political development of the state, and also its cooperation with other countries in the European Union...

Belarusian media forum to draw experts from 25 countries
The 14th Belarusian international media forum Partnership for the Future: Journalism and Social Security will take place in Brest on 23-24 May...

Belarus first featured in China’s Music of the World project
Belarus was represented by the Vetakh group of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts. The group was established in 1997 by Vyacheslav Kalatsei...

Belarus and Belarusians exhibition on display in Moscow
“The exhibition showcases a historic review of the major stages of Belarus’ development, displays Belarusian tangible and intangible culture”...

Belarus’ sambo wrestler Tatsiana Matsko earns four-time European champion title
The Belarusian secured a solid win in the 64kg event over Russia’s Valeria Anisimova. A year earlier, Tatsiana Matsko defeated the same Russian athlete at the European championships in Greece...

Azarenka 44th in WTA rankings, Sabalenka out of Top Ten
A week ago Victoria Azarenka was 51st and went up to the 44th with the total of 1,260 points after reaching the quarterfinal in Rome...

School in Russia named after Belarus' Great Patriotic War hero
Attending the event were heads of Kaliningrad Oblast government and the Ministry of Education, local government bodies, representatives of veteran and public organizations, Aleksei Krutalevich’s relatives, the school administration and students...

Belarusian athlete inducted into International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Ivan Ivankov is a two-time world all-around champion (1994 and 1997) and a two-time European all-around champion. He is also an 11-time world medalist...

Belarus to perform 19th in Eurovision Grand Final
The Grand Final will decide the winner of the glass microphone on 18 May. Apart from the contestants, the show will feature special guests...

Only living Brest Fortress defender Piotr Kotelnikov turns 90
In 1941 Piotr Kotelnikov, a student of the music platoon of the 44th infantry regiment, was 12 years old. “I woke up to a frightening morning that day. In the first few minutes of the war we, the students of the regiments, under the bombs and shells, rushed to the armament arsenals together with adults"...

Belarusfilm to start shooting first Indian movie soon
The Belarusfilm movie studio is getting ready to shoot its first Indian movie. “We believe that this project will become a kind of locomotive for bilateral partnerships in the movie industry,” Lalit Chokhani said...

MILEX 2019 defense expo kicks off in Minsk
"The exhibition features more than 170 exhibitors from 15 states that have brought their latest technology"...

Partisan Chronicles: Naiman’s Handheld Mortar
“Partisan Chronicles: Naiman’s Handheld Mortar” is a new page of the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History...

ZENA to perform in second half of Eurovision 2019 Grand Final
The countries that qualified for the Grand Final include Belarus, Greece, Serbia, Cyprus, Estonia, Czech Republic, Australia, Iceland, San Marino, and Slovenia...

MILEX 2019 defense expo to kick off in Minsk on 15 May
The official opening ceremony will take place at the Stalin’s Line historical and cultural complex on 15 May. Visitors will also get a chance to see the exposition of the Great Patriotic War and postwar military hardware...

Retro Minsk 2019 to showcase unique 1929 Packard
The festival dedicated to the history of the word automobile industry will bring together around 130 teams from Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia...

International programs to bring kids from seven countries to Belarusian summer camp
Children from Japan, Syria, Vietnam, China, Egypt, India, and Poland will spend this summer in Belarus for the purposes of recreation as part of international cooperation programs...

Exhibition dedicated to European Games to open in Minsk on 18 May
“Sport has been a universal theme in art. Since antiquity the traditions of fair sport competitions by inviolable rules, the cult of the perfect body have always been interesting for artists. Revived in the early 20th century the sport theme is relevant in modern art”...