Press releases

Belarus’ First News TV Channel goes live
First News Channel is the first news channel in the history of national television...

Tserakh wins Giro delle Marche in Rosa race
Giro delle Marche in Rosa is a three-day women's road cycling race held in the Italian region of Marche...

Belarus among Europe’s ten countries with most forest cover
Belarus has 40.2% of its land covered with forests. Last year, the area covered with forests amounted to more than 8.3 million hectares...

Number of centenaries on rise in Belarus
According to Nikolai Orel, the number of centenaries is growing in the country. The latest data suggests that currently more than 600 people in Belarus are aged 100 and older. The number of centenaries living in Belarus was about 400 in the past ten years...

Gold for Belarus at UIPM 2024 Pentathlon U17 World Championships
Akim Gnedtchik secured an overall victory, showing best results in fencing and being one of the best in the obstacle race. His stable performance in swimming and laser run helped him finish with a strong advantage over his competitors...

2024 Euro Beach Soccer League: Belarus into semifinal, Estonia gets technical defeat
The Belarusian team went on the field and held a pre-game warmup, but the Estonians failed to appear at the match...

Lukashenko intends to visit Grodno festival of national cultures
Chairman of the Armenian Cultural and Educational Society Hayastan in Minsk Georgy Yegiazaryan invited the head of state to attend the festival...

Belarus’ first media portal VIDEOBEL.BY goes online
The new resource will offer streaming channels and important live broadcasts, in particular, from the events attended by the head of state...

BelTA’s Superposition. Parallel Worlds book presented at Academy of Public Administration
It is a unique publication because it presents the entire diversity of materials from state-run and opposition printed media of the mid-1990s, which are not available to the general public...

Mass media about Lukashenko in 1990s. Statistics. Recollections in BelTA’s Parallel Worlds book
Newspaper headlines reflect the country’s life at the beginning of the efforts to establish Belarus’ independence. They also reflect the problems and challenges Belarusians faced and how the young state tackled them...

Belarus clinches five medals at World Draughts-64 Championships
Ihar Mikhalchenka from Volkovysk secured the world champion in the rapid program. Andrei Valiuk from Minsk collected bronze in the discipline...

Sabalenka remains 2nd in WTA after US Open win
Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka moved to 19th, while Aliaksandra Sasnovich sits at No.103...

Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka wins U.S. Open tennis tournament
In the final match of the U.S. Open the second racket of the planet defeated the world ranking’s number six Jessica Pegula from the USA - 7:5, 7:5...

Paralympics 2024: Belarus’ Zudzilava into Women’s 100m Breaststroke final
Anastasiya Zudzilava clocked 1:22.15 to finish third in the Women’s 100m Breaststroke – S13 heat and seventh overall...

Sabalenka cruises into US Open semifinal
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka needed an hour and 15 minutes to rout World No.7 Zheng Qinwen of China, 6-1, 6-2 and reach the US Open semifinal...

Paralympics 2024: Dzmitry Salei 5th in Men’s 100m Freestyle final
In the evening final the Belarusian touched fifth in 53.84 seconds...

Over 260,000 tourists visit Belarus’ nature reserves in 2024
The growing interest in the country’s specially protected areas has been recorded both among Belarusian and foreign tourists...

Paralympics 2024: Dzmitry Salei into Men’s 100m Freestyle final
Dzmitry Salei clocked 54.47 to finish third in his heat and fifth overall among 15 competitors. Maksim Vashkevich touched sixth in 56.96 to place 11th overall...

Mourners pay last respects to Aleksandr Medved in Minsk
Representatives of different sports, his friends and numerous sports fans came to say their last goodbye to the great athlete. Aleksandr Medved died on 2 September, two weeks before his 87th birthday...

Paralympics 2024: Boki, Shchalkanau into swimming finals
The competition day number six opened with the Men’s 100m Backstroke – S9 preliminary heats. Belarus’ Yahor Shchalkanau clocked the best time of 1:01.32 among all 14 competitors...