Press releases

Sabalenka into Mutua Madrid Open 2024 semifinals
Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka defeated Russia’s Mirra Andreeva (No. 43) 6-1, 6-4 in the Mutua Madrid Open 2024 quarterfinal on 1 May...

Belarus Events Calendar: MAY 2024
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...

Belarus’ Furman claims champion title at 2024 European Rowing Championships
The Belarusian competed in the non-Olympic discipline - lightweight women’s single sculls...

Sabalenka holds off Montgomery to progress in Madrid
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka outlasted world number 183 Robin Montgomery of the United States, 6-1, 6-7(5-7), 6-4 to book her return to the Mutua Madrid Open Round of 16...

Over Br15.8m earned during national cleanup day in Belarus
Some 2.35 million people took part in the national cleanup day on 20 April 2024...

Sabalenka advances to Madrid Open round three
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka defeated Poland's world number 48 Magda Linette 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the Mutua Madrid Open second round...

Book about Belarus’ national parks among winners at Eurasian book fair
The book "National Parks – Gems of Belarus" describes the protected natural territories of Belarus, namely four national parks (Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Braslav Lakes, Narochansky, Pripyatsky), Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve and Polesie Radiation and Ecological Reserve...

Mound of Glory Memorial Complex near Minsk to be renovated by 3 July
The Mound of Glory Memorial Complex commemorates Soviet liberators who freed the country from Nazi invaders. It was built in 1969. The complex consists of a 35.6 meter high hill crowned by a sculptural composition of four bayonets, which makes the overall complex 70.6 meters high...

Belarus’ Boki wins second gold at Madeira Para Swimming European Open Championships
Thus, by now the Belarusian team has three medals of the continental competitions - two golds by Ihar Boki and a 100m Backstroke S12 bronze by Maksim Vashkevich...

First medals for Belarus at 2024 Para Swimming European Open Championships
16-time Paralympic champion Ihar Boki claimed gold in the 100m butterfly S13. Maksim Vashkevich collected the 100m backstroke S12 bronze...

Sharamkou clinches bronze at FIG World Cup 2024 in Doha
Yahor Sharamkou won two medals at the four legs of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup: bronze in Doha and the floor exercise gold in Baku in March...

Br14.5m earned during national cleanup day in Belarus
According to him, it is Br400,000 more than the amount raised last year...

New graffiti uncovered in Transfiguration Church in Polotsk
The Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Polotsk remains a source of new information about the ancient history of Belarus. The church is not only a unique specimen of ancient architecture but also a true "depositary" of ancient graffito inscriptions...

Kukharenka secures 2024 Sambo Grand Prix bronze in Kemerovo
Competing in seven weight categories were sambo athletes from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan...

Sabalenka advances into Stuttgart quarterfinal
The Belarusian will next play either world number eight Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic or Russia’s world number 36 Anastasia Potapova. Aryna Sabalenka was the finalist of the three previous editions...

Over 5m Russian tourists visit Belarus in 2023
According to him, previously Russians visited only Minsk and regional centers, while now they visit district centers and national parks (like Polotsk, Lake Area, Nalibokskaya Pushcha)...

Belarus president’s ice hockey team crowned RNL winner
On 13 April the head of state’s ice hockey team beat the Minsk Oblast team with a score of 10:8 (3:4, 6:1, 1:3) in the second match of the final series in Minsk-based Olympic Arena. The result of the first game was 5:2...

Hanna Sola victorious in Commonwealth Cup season-ending sprint
The Belarusian who launched the final lap with a five seconds’ advantage and went unchallenged to the finish for her second victory of the season. At the January leg in Raubichi Hanna Sola won the mass start...

Belarus’ Ziaziulin secures Olympic berth
Thus, Team Belarus at the 2024 Paris Olympics will include three weightlifters: Eduard Ziaziulin, Siuzanna Valodzka (71kg), and Yauheni Tsikhantsou (102kg)...

Belarusian cosmonaut to bring microbe samples from ISS to study on Earth
Tatiana Semashko, Deputy Director for Science and Innovations of the Microbiology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, during a press conference timed to World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day...