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4 Sep 2018
Belarusian students to contact International Space Station
Oleg Novitskiy, a Roscosmos cosmonaut, a Belarus native, will tell the school students about the profession and will hold a live call with cosmonauts on board the ISS...
4 Sep 2018
St Petersburg to celebrate Minsk Days on 11-12 September
Minsk Mayor Andrei Shorets is set to meet with St Petersburg Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. The Minsk Day program will feature a gala concert of the Presidential Orchestra and Belarusian singers...
4 Sep 2018
Belarus’ national exposition at Moscow Book Fair
The Moscow International Book Fair will be running in one of the best VDNH pavilions. It will feature more than 300 publishing houses from 25 countries and over 100,000 book tiles...
4 Sep 2018
Over 500 volunteers apply for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
"The applications closed on 25 August. We have received more than 500 applications from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Switzerland"...
3 Sep 2018
New kits for Belarus national football team presented in Minsk
The presentation took place near the National Art Museum of Belarus. Football fans could see new sets of home and away kits the team will wear during the matches of the UEFA Nations League and the qualification process of UEFA Euro 2020...
3 Sep 2018
Belarusian and foreign writers explore new joint projects
According to his words, this year the roundtable has been attended by the writers from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, which happened for the first time...
3 Sep 2018
Minsk to host Italy-Belarus Friendship Festival on 9 September
The program also includes a sand art performance by Olga Radetskaya, a puppet theater show by Carro dei Comici, a presentation of famous Italian brands and a joint show by hairdresser and stylist Antonio Boccadamo and the Image Pro school...
31 Aug 2018
Belarusian State University 44th on THE’s Eurasia ranking
BSU takes 44th position. It is the only Belarusian university on THE’s ranking...
31 Aug 2018
Belarus Events Calendar: September 2018
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...
31 Aug 2018
Minsk airport celebrates 2018 three-millionth passenger
The 2018 three-millionth passenger took Belavia's Minsk-Moscow flight on 30 August at 16.30...
31 Aug 2018
Crystal Swan to be featured at BFI London Film Festival
The debut full-length work of the Belarusian filmmaker will be shown out of competition on 14 October. This is a very prestigious festival which is held under the patronage of the British Film Institute, Darya Zhuk noted...
31 Aug 2018
Tatsiana Khaladovich wins javelin throw event at Diamond League Final Zurich 2018
The Belarusian threw 66.99m in her best attempt to clinch gold. Second was Liu Shiying of China (66.00m)...
30 Aug 2018
Mogilev, Shklov, Gorki, Kostyukovichi recognized as friendly to children, teenagers
The UNICEF representative said: "A lot is being done in Mogilev Oblast to develop the social sphere. Close attention is paid to the quality of life of young and mature citizens"...
30 Aug 2018
Belarus to attend UPU Extraordinary Congress in Ethiopia
The Extraordinary Congress convened by the Government of Ethiopia together with the Universal Postal Union will be the second one in the 144-year history of the UPU...
30 Aug 2018
Japanese biathletes happy with training camp in Belarus
Ambassador Hiroki Tokunaga thanked Belarus for a high-level organization of the training camp in the Novopolotsk State Olympic School for Japanese athletes...
30 Aug 2018
Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival to open in Minsk on 10 October
The opening concert will feature Grammy award winners Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble under the baton of People's Artist of the USSR and Russia Yuri Bashmet. Soloists are violinist Vadim Repin, violist Yuri Bashmet and pianist Rostislav Krimer...
29 Aug 2018
Golden tractor made by Belarusian MTZ on display in Russian Novosibirsk
“Why is it golden? First, because it was a special order on the part of the dealership. Second, with the golden outlook we wanted to stress that it is the most popular MTZ tractor model in the world. It is a flagship of the Belarusian mechanical engineering industry”...
29 Aug 2018
Minsk gearing up for Georgia culture days
The Georgian culture festival Tbilisoba will be held in the Upper Town of Minsk on 1 September. Retrospective screening of the short movies by Mikhail Kobakhidze in the courtyard of the Monastyrsky Hotel on 1 September will show Wedding, Musician, Umbrella...
29 Aug 2018
Minsk to host international reenactment festival on 8-9 September
The festival will feature knight, cavalry and archery tournaments, exhibition shows. Visitors will be invited to enjoy the atmosphere of the previous epochs: from the Vikings to World War II...
29 Aug 2018
Aryna Sabalenka into US Open second round
Belarus’ world number 20 Aryna Sabalenka went off to a good start at the 2018 US Open defeating world number 37 Danielle Collins of the United States 6-0, 4-6, 6-4...
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