Press releases

Belarusian university BSTU presents its scientific, innovation capabilities in Israel
Igor Voitov briefed Nili Shalev on the main lines of activity of the BSTU, noting that the university is a recognized leader in the CIS in timber, chemical and printing industries...

Two Belarusian universities into Round University Ranking
These are Belarusian State University (its ranking was revised upwards from 706th in 2018 to 630th in 2019). The National Institute for Higher Education is ranked 741st, while a year ago it stood at 731st...

Partisan Chronicles: Professor Gutorov on Fight and Creative Art of National Avengers
“Partisan Chronicles: Professor Gutorov on Fight and Creative Art of National Avengers” is a new page of the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History...

Bike Week in Minsk on 11-19 May
The Bike Week will open with the 2019 UCI Europe Tour MINSK CUP on 11 May and the Grand Prix Minsk on 12 May. These events will bring together over 150 athletes from 15 countries...

Belarus to host European Deer Calling Championship on 24-25 May
"This year the European Deer Calling Championship will be organized by the Belarusian Society of Hunters and Fishermen jointly with the hunting farm Krasny Bor in Vitebsk Oblast. The competitions will be held in Krasny Bor on 24-25 May"...

Minsk to host Fashion Mill 2019 final on 15-16 May
“International experts, fashion and design specialists from Italy, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, and France have been invited to name the best works,” representatives of the center said...

Minsk to host Vulica Brasil street art festival 26 July-11 August
This year the festival will continue to transform the streets of the capital into art galleries. Artists will create murals, sculptures, graffiti, art intervention and even micro-street art...

Belarusian diplomats attend Nazi camp liberation commemorative events in Germany
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Germany Denis Sidorenko addressed the participants of the commemorative event at the monument to the fallen Soviet soldiers in Fuerstenberg, the site of the concentration camp Ravensbruck...

Belarus-Russia Union State spartakiad for children and teenagers kicks off in Dmitrov
The 2019 spartakiad for children and teenagers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has kicked off in the city of Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast. Dmitrov is hosting the first leg of the spartakiad – the Russia-Belarus ice hockey competition among school students...

Chinese journalists in Belarus on press tour
The press tour has been organized to promote and popularize Belarusian goods and services in China and to foster Belarus-China relations...

Belarus win Morocco Desert Challenge stage 3
The 372km-long stage included stiff terrains, oueds, and dried salt lakes. Aliaksei Vishneuski’s crew clocked the best time of 4 hours 51 minutes. His teammate Siarhei Viazovich came in fifth, some four minutes behind...

Belarusian-Chinese institute set up at Belarusian State University
Training will be conducted in English and Russian at the first stage. The institute will offer the programs “mechanics and mathematical modelling”, “physics (production activity)” and “the world economy”...

Minsk museum to host international conference timed to 75th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation
Scientists, researchers, and public figures, employees of museums and archives of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Germany will take part in the conference...

Swedish students visit Minsk, attend lecture on Belarus’ statehood
Oleg Kravchenko delivered a lecture about the main historic events which led to the establishment of the Belarusian statehood, outlined the main areas of Belarus’ foreign and internal policy...

Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka 10th in WTA rankings
Aliaksandra Sasnovich is 35th with 1,495 points, Victoria Azarenka goes 61st with 1,001 points, Vera Lapko is 70th with 803 points...

National children’s technology park to be set up in Belarus in 2021
The technology park will offer a special 21-day education program. After that students will start individual distance learning courses...

Russia announces big cultural projects in Belarus in 2019-2021
According to Alla Manilova, Russia’s biggest museums will start running their exhibition projects in Belarus in 2020. The first of them will be a festival of the State Hermitage Museum in Gomel and a big exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery in Minsk...

Exhibition to mark 200th anniversary of Stanislaw Moniuszko opens in Moscow
"He wrote the first Belarusian (Idyll) and the first Polish (Halka) operas as well as a lot of operettas and ballets. UNESCO declared the year 2019 as the year of Stanislaw Moniuszko"...

Glubokoye to celebrate Belarus’ folk music at international pipe fest
The festival will bring together musicians from Poland, Macedonia, Belarus, Croatia and Russia. The three-day program will feature parties, master classes and a solemn service in a Catholic church...

Eco-marathon in Gomel gets international
About 2,000 people have already registered for the event. These are athletes from all over Belarus, as well as from Ukraine, Russia, the United States of America, Italy, France, China, and Egypt. Registration is still open...