Press releases

Khaslakhanau wins European wrestling silver
Abubakar Khaslakhanau is a world junior champion (2021, 2023), bronze medalist of the 2024 European Wrestling Championships, and a qualifier for the 2024 Paris Games...

Pruzhany to host Vytoki festival on 6-8 June
This will be the 20th edition of the festival since its inception in 2021. This year it will be hosted by only one town, but it will be held in a new expanded format and will become even more spectacular, eventful and interesting...

Belarus’ Hanna Tserakh wins GP Citta di Mirano race
The victory in Italy has become the third one for Hanna Tserakh this season. The Belarusian won the Giornata Rosa in Friuli in Buttrio in March and was victorious in the Trofeo Fondazione Mario Gottardini in Bolzano in May...

Sasnovich wins Rolland Garros first qualifying round
Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus won 6-4, 6-2 against Jenny Lim of France in her opening qualifying match of the French Open...

WTA rankings: Sabalenka 2nd, Azarenka, Sasnovich move up
Following the final in the Italian Open, Aryna Sabalenka keeps 8,138 points. The winner of the Rome final, Iga Swiatek of Poland, is 3,557 points ahead of the Belarusian...

Sabalenka to face Swiatek in Rome final
On 18 May the Italian Open final will feature Aryna Sabalenka and world number one Iga Swiatek of Poland, as it was the case in Madrid two weeks ago...

Sabalenka eases past Ostapenko to make Rome semifinal
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka secured an almost routine win, 6-2, 6-4, over Latvia’s world number 10 Jelena Ostapenko to make the Italian Open semifinal...

Alina Harnasko wins four medals at FIG World Challenge Cup in Portugal
Earlier, Alina Harnasko won the All-Around silver, thus making it four-medal haul at the World Challenge Cup in Portugal...

Belarus win six medals on first day of European sambo championships in Serbia
The Belarusian team won 3 silver and 3 bronze medals...

WTA rankings: Sabalenka remains 2nd, Azarenka climbs to 24th
Aryna Sabalenka goes second with 7,498 points, while Iga Swiatek of Poland, the winner of the Madrid Open has scored 10,910 points...

Sabalenka fights back to reach Madrid Open final
On her way to the final Aryna Sabalenka moved past Poland’s world number 48 Magda Linette, world number 183 Robin Montgomery and world number 15 Danielle Collins of the United States and Russia’s world number 43 Mirra Andreeva...

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...