Press releases

Belarusian space flight participant: ‘We are encouraged and believe in success’
The final exam of the main crew of the 21st visiting expedition to the International Space Station is taking place in the Cosmonaut Training Center...

Marozava advances to San Diego Open quarterfinal
Belarus’ Lidziya Marozava and Belgium’s Kimberley Zimmermann went off to a good start defeating the Italian duo of Angelica Moratelli and Camilla Rosatello, 1-6, 6-1, 10-7 in the San Diego opener...

‘We feel support, trust the commander.’ How Marina Vasilevskaya passed a space exam
Belarusian women are getting closer and closer to the outer space. A pass/fail comprehensive training session of the main crew of the 21st visiting expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) took place in the Cosmonaut Training Center in Zvyozdny Gorodok, Moscow Oblast on 28 February. The crew composition is international: the Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, the NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, and Belarus’ Marina Vasilevskaya, who will fly into the outer space together with the experienced colleagues in late March...

Belarus clinch five medals on Altyn Mergen Grand Prix day five
Taking part in the tournament are 230 athletes from six countries: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The Tuesday competition program featured five events, with Belarusians securing medals in three finals...

Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya undertakes examination training at Cosmonaut Training Center
The training uses the simulators of the Soyuz MS manned spacecraft and the ISS Russian Segment...

Belarusians to play in tennis tournaments in Spain, USA
Belarus’ Ilya Ivashka will open his Challenger Tenerife III run against August Holmgren of Denmark...

Shymanovich, Zarazua win Puerto Vallarta Open
In the final the Belarusian-Mexican duo beat the Italian tandem of Angelica Moratelli and Camilla Rosatello, 6-2, 7-6 (7-1)...

Shymanovich, Zarazua reach Puerto Vallarta Open final
Belarus’ Iryna Shymanovich and Renata Zarazua of Mexico have progressed into the final of the ongoing Puerto Vallarta Open seeing off France’s Elixane Lechemia and Anna Siskova of the Czech Republic, 6-2, 3-6, 10-6 in the semifinal...

Belarus considers nominating Brest Fortress for UNESCO World Heritage List
Taking into account the special state importance of the investigation of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people, the Prosecutor General's Office proposed to nominate Brest Fortress not as a fort of the 19th century, but as a memorial to the Great Patriotic War, symbolizing the protection of the world from Nazism and the fight against the policy of genocide against unleashed against the Belarusian people...

Belarus to compete in seven disciplines of Games of Future in Kazan
Belarusians will compete in seven disciplines: phygital basketball, phygital hockey, phygital martials arts, VR cycling, battle of robots, World of Tanks and Dota 2...

Belarusian Bolshoi Theater to take part in Rimsky-Korsakov festival
The Bolshoi Theater will show The Tsar's Bride opera on 16 March and Scheherazade ballet on 17 March. On the evening of 17 March, the Alexandrovskaya Chamber Hall will host Mozart and Salieri, the composer's one-act opera...

Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya, Anastasia Lenkova declared fit for space flight
The Chief Medical Commission convened for a meeting at the Cosmonaut Training Center on 21 February to analyze the data of medical examinations of the prime and backup crews of Visiting Expedition-21 during preflight training...

Azarenka into Dubai 2024 second round
Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka went off to a good start at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships defeating Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4, in an hour and 20 minutes to progress to the second round...

Belarus’ Khadasevich clinches bronze at 2024 European Weighting Championships
Pavel Khadasevich's biggest achievement at international competitions was silver at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships. Last year Pavel Khadasevich won gold at the 2nd CIS Games...

Belarus’ Hetmanava wins 2024 European Wrestling Championships bronze
Belarus’ Alesia Hetmanava clinched bronze in the Women’s Wrestling 59kg event. The Belarusian wrestler opened her run with a victory over Eda Tekin of Turkiye...

Belarus 95th in FIFA rankings
Belarus go 57th in the FIFA women’s rankings. The rankings are topped by Spain. Top Five also comprises the USA, France, England, and Sweden. The next women’s rankings will be published on 15 March...

Bronze for Belarus at 2024 European Wrestling Championships
In the Greco-Roman Wrestling event Abubakar Khaslakhanau of Belarus claimed the 97kg bronze. The Belarusian beat Aleksandar Stjepanevic of Sweden and Anton Vieweg of Germany, but lost to Armenia’s Artur Alesanyan...

Azarenka advances to Qatar Open quarterfinal
Victoria Azarenka beat Poland’s Magdalena Frech, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the opener and then proved stronger against China’s Wang Xinyu, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2...

BelAZ, MTZ, MAZ named most popular sites for industrial tourism in 2023
“The industrial sites drawing the biggest number of tourists in 2023 were BelAZ (51,500 tourists, up by 58% over 2022), MTZ (19,200 tourists, up by 15%), and MAZ (6,886 tourists, up by 29%). Gomselmash, BATE, BMZ, Mogilevliftmash, Bobruiskagromash have good growth dynamics, too,” noted Dmitry Kharitonchik...

Belarus’ Shymanovich sixth in 100m Breaststroke, earns Olympic berth
Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich finished sixth in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke. His time of 59.35 enabled the athlete to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics...