Press releases

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...

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...