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19 Jul 2018
Susedzi bike marathon in Augustow Canal to welcome riders from Belarus, neighboring states
The marathon, which will be held for the eighth time already, has become an important cycling event in the region. On 21 July Augustow Canal will gather hundreds of amateur and professional riders...
18 Jul 2018
Maradona grateful for reception in Belarus
"Thank you, Belarus, for this reception. I do not think I deserve this, but I will try hard to do the best to Dynamo Brest"...
18 Jul 2018
Ratomka to host Eventing FEI Course in late July
"The Course for Officials is part of the FEI education program to secure a high level in judging and the organization of eventing competitions"...
18 Jul 2018
Over 80 athletes to take part in international eventing competition in Ratomka
Olympic Games participant in London, one of the leaders of the Belarusian team Alexander Fominov stressed that the best Belarusian riders will take part in the upcoming competitions...
18 Jul 2018
Belarus wins gold at 2018 European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The Belarusian athletes scored 1,372 points to finish one point ahead of the Irish athletes who placed second. Bronze went to Russia’s Svetlana Lebedeva and Ekaterina Huraskina...
17 Jul 2018
Athletes from eight countries to compete in Belarus’ Open Athletics Championships
Belarus plans to field a strong team: Alina Talay in the 100m hurdles, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya in the 100m, Tatsiana Khaladovich in javelin throw, Maksim Nedasekau in high jump...
17 Jul 2018
BSU's position on Shanghai ARWU-Physics reaffirmed
The country’s leading university made it into the top 500 universities of ARWU in 2017. This year the university confirmed its status...
16 Jul 2018
Diego Maradona eager to meet Belarus president
“Certainly, I’d love to meet him. I have great flashbacks about Fidel, Chavez, Maduro, and Ortega. I also know Putin. Now I would like to take a photo together with [Belarus President Alexander] Lukashenko”...
16 Jul 2018
Diego Maradona willing to settle down in Belarus
"I thought that in my age I didn’t have time to take a team and make it great. I will try to accomplish that with FC Dynamo Brest. I want to give them the best out of my football career, the experience I’ve accumulated during many championships"...
16 Jul 2018
Belarusian writers to give readings in Russian regions
"Several readings are scheduled to take place in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Kazan and Vladivostok. The first of them will be held in August and September"...
16 Jul 2018
Diego Maradona arrives in Brest
Diego Maradona is set to get familiar with the club and to attend the match Dinamo Brest vs Shakhter Soligorsk...
16 Jul 2018
Writers from ten countries to participate in Belarusian Written Language Day roundtable
Writers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, USA, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine intend to visit Ivanovo District this year...
16 Jul 2018
Belarus’ Sasnovich 41st in WTA rankings
The Belarusian was 50th before the 2018 Wimbledon and climbed up nine spots after reaching round four. Aliaksandra Sasnovich currently holds 1,283 points...
16 Jul 2018
Belarusfilm, China’s CFG to shoot film
According to Vladimir Karachevsky, the parties agreed to produce a joint film and have already discussed several ideas for the future film project, including an idea of a romantic film...
16 Jul 2018
Almost 33,000 fans travel through Belarus for 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia
"As was expected, Russians were the most active football fans. Around 11,000 Russian citizens crossed the Belarusian border. The second largest group was Poles"...
14 Jul 2018
Rostov-on-Don to host Youth for the Union State festival on 12-17 September
The song contest is the main draw of the Youth for the Union State festival...
13 Jul 2018
Belarus-China first youth forum scheduled for 2019
Representatives of the BRSM and All-China Youth Federation will meet in Beijing on 20 July to discuss the organization of the first youth forum of the two countries...
13 Jul 2018
Belarus, China declare contest of joint R&D projects for 2019-2020
Applications are invited for priority areas such as electronics, information and communication technologies, new materials, mechanics and engineering, energy effectiveness and energy saving, metallurgy, biotechnologies, chemistry, agribusiness technologies...
13 Jul 2018
Belovezhskaya Pushcha’s European Diploma for Protected Areas extended by ten years
After the existing management plan expires, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha administration will have to pass a new long-term management plan in 2020 in order to ensure the sustainable management and protection of the forest...
12 Jul 2018
Belarus’ MFA in Twiplomacy’s top 50 in 2018
The twitter account of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was 13th in the ranking, next to the accounts of the foreign ministries of Spain and France...
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