Press releases

COVID-19 off Belarus’ list of high-risk diseases
To date, more than 6.678 million residents of Belarus (72.2% of the total population) have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; more than 6.577 million of them (or 71.1%) have completed the vaccination regimen...

Sabalenka remains 2nd in WTA rankings
The Belarusian holds 6,100 points and goes behind Iga Swiatek of Poland...

Minsk hosting Future Cup ice hockey tournament
Competing will be the Belarusian junior team, Kazakhstan’s U20 team, Russian U18 and U17 teams. The matches will be played through Sunday...

Belarus’ Lidziya Marozava off to good start at Linz Open
Lidziya Marozava of Belarus, teamed with Xinyun Han of China, went off to a good start at the 2023 Linz Open defeating the Czech duo Anastasia Detiuc and Miriam Kolodziejova, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-3 to progress into the quarterfinal...

Belarus’ Egor Gerasimov reaches Challenger Vilnius main draw
Belarus’ world number 414 Egor Gerasimov has reached the Challenger 100 main draw in Vilnius seeing off Kazakhstan’s Beibit Zhukayev (World No.304), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second qualifying round...

Belarus Events Calendar: FEBRUARY 2023
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...

Belarus’ Lidziya Marozava to play at Lyon Open
In the opener Lidziya Marozava and Germany’s Vivian Heisen will take on Russia’s Alexandra Panova and Olga Danilovic of Serbia...

Belarus’ Alina Harnasko wins five gold medals at Winter Queen Cup in Spain
Belarusian athletes clinched 15 medals. Alina Harnasko, a bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympics Games, became the absolute champion of the tournament in Spain...

Intellectual Belarus expo draws 80,000-100,000 visitors
The exposition was divided into a number of clusters: artificial intelligence, IT-technologies, robotics; innovative instrumentation; electric transport and its basic components; defense and military science; ecology, nature management; biotechnologies; pharmacy, healthcare, medicine; agroindustrial complex, food; youth initiatives...

Sabalenka returns to WTA No.2 after Australian Open win
Before the Australian Open the best Belarusian tennis player was ranked 5th and moved up three spots after her triumph in Melbourne. She currently holds 6,100 points...

Dzinara Alimbekava-Smolskaya 2nd in sprint at Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi
As for other Belarusian biathletes, Darya Kudayeva finished 16th, Irina Kruchinkina-Shakleina was 22nd, Yuliya Kavaleuskaya – 23rd, Viktoryia Khadasevich – 25th, Adelina Sabitava – 27th among 28 athletes...

Sabalenka makes her first Australian Open final
Belarus’ world number 5 Aryna Sabalenka has reached her first Australian Open final, defeating Poland’s world number 45 Magda Linette, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2, in an hour and 33 minutes...

Smolski 3rd in sprint at Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi
Leader of the men’s total score Anton Smolski of Belarus finished 3rd, with one penalty, 17.2 seconds behind winner Eduard Latypov of Russia. Russia’s Daniil Serokhvostov came in 2nd...

Sabalenka soars into first Australian Open semifinal
Belarus’ world number 5 Aryna Sabalenka soared into the first Australian Open semifinal of her career with a 6-3, 6-2 win over world number 64 Donna Vekic of Croatia in the women's quarterfinal...

Azarenka into Australian Open semifinal
Belarus’ world number 24 Victoria Azarenka solved world number 3 Jessica Pegula of the United States, 6-4, 6-1, to reach the 2023 Australian Open semifinal...

Sabalenka makes first Australian Open quarterfinal
Belarus’ world number 5 Aryna Sabalenka defeated world number 10 Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, 7-5, 6-2, in an hour and 27 minutes to reach her first Australian Open quarterfinal...

Belarus proposes bison breeding project to Russia’s Bashkortostan
An original proposal to breed a bison population was made by the head of the Belarus President Property Management Directorate Yuri Nazarov...

Azarenka reaches Australian Open fourth round
Victoria Azarenka defeated world number 203 Sofia Kenin of the United States, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) in the opener and then saw off world number 191 Nadia Podoroska of Argentine, 6-1, 6-0...

Dzmitry Lazouski wins sprint at PARI Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi
On 20 January the men’s 10km sprint was won by clean-shooting Dzmitry Lazouski of Belarus in 23:11.7...

Sabalenka reaches Australian Open round three
Belarus’ world number 5 Aryna Sabalenka cruised past world number 51 Shelby Rogers of the United States, 6-3, 6-1, in an hour and 28 minutes to book a meeting against world number 32 Elise Mertens of Belgium in the third round of the 2023 Australian Open...