Press releases

Belarus’ Tsikhantsou wins bronze, earns Olympic berth at 2024 IWF World Cup
Before the event in Thailand Yauheni Tsikhantsou ranked 5th in the world in the 102kg weight category. At the 2024 IWF World Cup the Belarusian lifted a total of 400kg (183kg+217kg) to clinch bronze and rose to the 3rd place in the rankings...

Hurshtyn, Khramiankou earn Olympic licenses in wrestling
Thus, Belarus holds seven Olympic licenses in wrestling...

Space crew with Belarusian cosmonaut safely back on Earth
The reentry vehicle routinely landed at 10:17 Minsk time about 150km to the southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan...

Azarenka progresses to Charleston quarterfinal
The Belarusian will next face Jessica Pegula of the United States. In the opener Victoria Azarenka eased past Italy’s world number 56 Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-1, 6-2...

Belarus 96th in FIFA rankings
The Belarusian national football team go 96th with 1226.54 points in the recently published rankings of the Federation Internationale de Football Association...

Azarenka moves to Charleston round number two
World number 26 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus needed just an hour and ten minutes to prevail over Italy’s world number 56 Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-1, 6-2, to progress into the Charleston second round...

Sharangovich repeats Belarus’ record for goals scored in NHL season
Yegor Sharangovich has eight more matches to set a new record...

Belarusian cosmonaut’s return to Earth scheduled for 6 April
The spacecraft is expected to land on the steppe in Kazakhstan, near the towns of Zhezkazgan and Arkalyk...

Cosmonauts Marina Vasilevskaya, Oleg Novitsky connect with children from Russia’s Korolyov
Marina Vasilevskaya is set to have a radio link with the Earth on 29 March. Specialists of the Radiophysics and Computer Technologies Faculty of Belarusian State University will establish a direct signal of communication with the ISS at 17.50 Minsk time at the moment of its flight over Belarus...

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

Belarus home to about 9.15m people as of 1 January 2024
As of the reporting date as many as 1,308,569 people lived in Brest Oblast, 1,081,911 people in Vitebsk Oblast, 1,338,617 people in Gomel Oblast, 992,556 people in Grodno Oblast, 1,460,289 people in Minsk Oblast, and 981,174 people in Mogilev Oblast...

Belarus triumph in mixed relay at Russian Biathlon Championships
The mixed relay win became the second one for Team Belarus at the 2024 Russian Biathlon Championships in Tyumen. On Tuesday Hanna Sola won the women's pursuit...

Azarenka reaches Miami Open semifinal
Belarus’ world number 32 Victoria Azarenka clinched a spot in the Miami Open semifinal fending off world number 68 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan, 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-3...

Belarus’ Sola wins women’s pursuit at Russian Biathlon Championships
At the tournament in Chaykovsky in January 2024 Hanna Sola finished second in the Women’s Super Sprint...

Belarusian academy of sciences reveals details of scientific program on ISS
"As part of the scientific program on the International Space Station (ISS) the first Belarusian woman cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya is set to perform biotechnological experiments on cultivation and storage of samples of probiotic strains of lactic acid microorganisms and bifidobacteria in space flight conditions, as well as production of samples of fermented milk products with a complex of probiotic cultures"...

Belarusians leave messages in condolence book in Russian Embassy
More and more people are flocking to the embassy to express their condolences. The book of condolences will be open on 25-26 March. Officials and representatives of public associations of the Republic of Belarus can leave an entry in it...

Belarusian Harnasko wins Ribbon event at RG World Cup in Greece
The four finals took place on 24 March. Belarus’ Alina Harnasko scored 31,550 points in the Ribbon routine to secure gold...

Azarenka advances to Miami Open third round
The Belarusian will next face China’s world number 7 Qinwen Zheng...

For whom Khatyn bells toll... March 22 marks 81st anniversary of Khatyn tragedy
By remembering Khatyn, Belarusians remember thousands of other Belarusian villages destroyed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War...

Launch of Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Belarusian onboard postponed by 24 hours
Belarus’ representative Marina Vasilevskaya is part of the crew of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft...