Press releases

BelTA, Great Patriotic War Museum launch Partisan Chronicles project
The project is based on a unique collection of handwritten partisan journals kept at the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War History...

Minsk to host Azerbaijani Culture Festival, Day of India in September
The Minsk Upper Town will host the Azerbaijani Culture Festival and the Day of India on 22-23 September...

Belarusian opera singers to perform in France
The French cities of Rennes, Angers and Nantes will open their theater seasons with Russian operas: Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The leading soloists of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of Belarus were invited to perform in these productions...

International Short Film Festival Kinosmena 2018 gets underway in Minsk
The festival includes the following programs: Belarusian Films, Foreign Feature Films, Horror Films, Animation, and A Special Look...

Belarus-Moldova youth forum scheduled for spring 2019
Belarus has resumed student cooperation with Moldova. This year a student farming team has been formed in Vitebsk Oblast...

Belarus to attend Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York
According to the Council of the Republic, participation in the summit will help Belarus present its approaches to building the work on achieving the SDGs and also discuss practical issues of cooperation with the World Economic Forum...

IAEA leading experts to deliver online lectures for Belarus
The course entitled International Nuclear Cooperation. Technical Aspects will include eight lectures. The course will be delivered as a video conference at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics...

Week of Integration to forerun Belarus-Russia regional forum
The program will include a number of youth events. On 21 September Mogilev will gather young people from Bryansk Oblast and Mogilev Oblast. On 9-10 October the oblast center will host the 6th Forum of Belarus and Russia “Youth for the Union State”...

Belarus Pavilion at Moscow’s VDNKh draws 11,000 visitors per day
Gennady Romanenko said that 160 Belarusian enterprises are exhibiting their products now: mainly goods of light industry, food, dairy and meat industries...

Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer BelAZ to celebrate 70th anniversary with doors open day
The event will be timed to the 70th anniversary since the company was founded and to Machine Builder’s Day...

Yakub Kolas sculpture unveiled in Tianjin Foreign Studies University
During the opening ceremony Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Kirill Rudy noted that Belarusian national poet Yakub Kolas is a symbol of patriotism and courage of the Belarusian people...

Lukashenko shown Belarusian ratracks, roller skis, pianos
Alexander Lukashenko was shown ski boots made by the Marko footwear company, Belarusian skis and roller skis, ski binding, ski poles and wax...

Minsk to host Belt and Road of Hubei Province exhibition on 24 September
Visitors will be able to learn about matriculation rules and study opportunities at these universities and to get detailed information about the higher learning institutions listed in international and Chinese rankings...

Belarus wins Grand Prix of song contest in Rostov-on-Don
Soloist of the Belarusian Armed Forces Academic Song and Dance Ensemble, laureate of various song contests Yekaterina Lazuka from Minsk has won the Grand Prix of the International Competition of Youth Song Performers in Rostov-on-Don...

International journalism school opens in Minsk
BY-RU Workshop has already been tested in Grodno. Journalism professionals and mass media experts from Belarus and Russia arranged a series of master classes at premises of the Grodzenskaya Prauda newspaper over the course of eight months...

Listapad film festival 2018 unveils its slogan
This slogan refers to Kira Muratova’s movie Getting to Know the Big, Wide World. This movie sets the standard Listapad wants to keep up with while selecting entries for the festival program...

Belarusian Zubrenok hosts children from 16 countries in 2018
Traditionally, we have kids from Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Azerbaijan has taken an active interest in the center lately. The other day we received representatives of a Chinese travel agency that intends to send children to our center for holidays...

Belarusian wrestlers win eight medals at Alexander Medved tournament
Gold medals were clinched by Azamat Nurikov (74kg), Haji Rajabov (86kg) and Alexander Gushtyn (97kg)...

Over 40,000 people visit exhibition of Minsk producers in St. Petersburg
Over 40,000 people visited an exhibition of Belarusian goods that was held in St. Petersburg during Minsk Days, Chairman of the Economy Committee of Minsk City Hall Vladimir Naumovich said at a meeting in Minsk City Hall on 17 September...

Sabalenka named WTA August Breakthrough of the Month
Aryna Sabalenka is currently 20th in the WTA ranking...