Press releases

New Supreme Court building inaugurated in Minsk
Aleksandr Lukashenko was given a tour of the new building of the Supreme Court, saw its halls and offices. The president was interested in how the conditions for judicial activity had been improved in the new building...

Azarenka gets by Diyas to make Monterrey quarterfinals
In the opener the Belarusian knocked out qualifier Miyu Kato of Japan, 6-4, 6-2. Victoria Azarenka will next play Russia’s world number 33 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova...

Special stamp sheet to mark 75th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation
The stamp sheet goes with an augmented reality technology. With the help of the Ar Marka Belarus application, the image "comes alive" and a specially created script appears in augmented reality...

Minsk to host Sciteen 2019 international science competition in April
"3D printing of medicines, cultured meat, a platform to find missing people, development of a bionic eye and a Tesla for the mining industry – these are just some of the ideas to be discussed at the National Academy of Sciences during the tournament"...

Over 120 works by Gustave Dore to be on display in Gomel
The exhibition features over 120 illustrations that earned Gustave Dore international recognition. Here are just a few of them: Milton's Paradise Lost, Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes’ Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote...

Anastasia Lavrinchuk to represent Belarus at Miss World 2019
The National Beauty School helps Anastasia prepare for the international beauty contest. They will help design evening gowns and cultural costumes, stage a performance for the talent show and shot presentation videos...

Belarus, Italy to hold joint contest of tech projects
Belarus’ State Science and Technology Committee and the Central European Initiative expressed interest in intensifying cooperation, including within the framework of European Union programs, like Horizon 2020 and COST, and as part of scientific conferences...

Belarus-wide Chinese language competition scheduled for 4-5 April
The competition will have two rounds. In the first round contestants will be offered tests in hieroglyphics, lexicon and grammar of the Chinese language and will be asked to do translations from Chinese into Russian and from Russian into Chinese...

Partisan Chronicles: Art by People’s Avengers
“Partisan Chronicles: Art by People’s Avengers” is a new page of the joint project of BelTA and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History. It is dedicated to partisans’ art...

Exhibition about Trostenets death camp opens in Gomel
The exposition located in the exhibition hall of the university, presents the archival documents, personal stories and recollections of the prisoners of the Trostenets death camp set up by the Nazis in Belarus in 1942...

Azarenka knocks out Kato in Monterrey opener
Former World No.1 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, currently ranked 67, had a successful Abierto GNP Seguros debut on Tuesday, 2 April, claiming a first-round victory over qualifier Miyu Kato of Japan, 6-4, 6-2...

ZENA to perform 8th in first semifinal of Eurovision 2019
This year the running order of the participants in the semifinals has been, as always, decided by producers of the song contest. According to the organizers, such an approach helps make the show more spectacular from the viewpoint of stage direction...

Winners of Bogdanovich poem translation contest honored in Minsk
Maya Galitskaya from Buda-Koshelevo, Gomel Oblast was awarded the first prize. She said she fell in love with Maksim Bogdanovich’s poetry when a student. When she learned about the contest she immediately decided to participate....

Belarus’ ZENA to take part in Moscow Eurovision Party 2019
This will be the ninth official Russian pre-party and a big gala concert in the run-up to Eurovision, Europe’s most popular song contest. This pre-party will bring together contestants from 10 participating countries, including Belarus...

Exhibition in Russian parliament ahead of Belarus-Russia Unity Day
The exhibition will feature folk art works and is designed to foster patriotic upbringing and enlightenment by means of presenting traditional decorative and applied art works created by young Belarusians and Russians...

MAZ-SPORTavto Team to take part in Morocco Desert Challenge
The Moroccan track is as difficult as the world-famous Dakar. A large part of the route will run through the desert and sandy areas. Racers must overcome 2,741km in special stages divided into eight legs. Among the obstacles are dunes, soft sands and dry riverbeds...

Nationwide forest week scheduled in Belarus for 13-20 April
Belarus is one of Europe’s ten most heavily forested countries...

Literary project dedicated to Russian poets presented in Minsk
The first book Morning Wind in the Window was written by People’s Writer of Udmurtia Vyacheslav Ar-Sergi and translated into Belarusian by Viktor Gordei...

Iosif Goshkevich statue unveiled in Japan
The bust of Iosif Goshkevich, a native of Minsk Province, the first consul of the Russian Empire in Japan, has been unveiled in the Hakodate Cultural Center, Hokkaido Prefecture...

Brest to receive CIS Capital of Culture certificate on 5 April
Brest plans to host about 40 international events during the year as it holds the CIS Capital of Culture status. This will make the city, which is celebrating its 1000th anniversary this year, more attractive for investors and tourists, Brest Mayor Alexander Rogachuk said...