Press releases

Belarus’ sports ministry shares trends in domestic tourism
The Travel. Experience. Get Inspired campaign attracts a lot of attention at the beginning of the summer season. This year it will be held for the third time...

Belarus hosts tourists from 174 countries in 2023
For example, earlier Grodno Oblast and Brest Oblast were working on visa-free travel for tourist groups...

Vasilevskaya, Lenkova raise Belarus’ flag at Baikonur Cosmodrome
“The traditional flag raising ceremony symbolizes the official start of the final stage of preparations for Expedition 71 (NASA astronauts) and Visiting Expedition 21 (Roscosmos cosmonauts and spaceflight participants) on a crewed mission,” the press service remarked...

Belarusian to take part in opera festival in Russia’s Samara
"Our arrangements with Samara do not stop with this festival. We have already held negotiations, and the ballet company will attend the Dmitri Shostakovich Festival in Samara and show the performances Spartacus and Illusions of Love," she added...

Lukashenko attends charity festival in Minsk
The Alina festival is one of the largest projects of the Alina Kabaeva`s Charitable Foundation. The festivals have been held since 2009. The key purpose of the charity festival, which brings together hundreds of young athletes from Russia and other countries, is to popularize junior sports, in particular, rhythmic gymnastics...

Minsk to host Alina 2024 festival
This year Belarus and Russia are co-hosting the charity festival for the first time...

Minsk book fair 2024 to feature about 20 countries
About 20 countries will be featured at the 31st edition of the Minsk International Book Fair, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will be the central exhibitor...

Minsk book fair to open in Belarusian capital on 14 March
The exhibition will be themed around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, the Year of Quality, anniversaries of famous Belarusian writers and poets, etc...

Khatyn memorial draws over 500,000 visitors in 2023
"Over the past year, the Khatyn museum drew 525,600 visitors, which made up 185% of the 2022 numbers. The new museum was a major contributor to the increase in the visitor numbers"...

Belarus clinch 26 medals at Altyn Mergen Grand Prix in Shymkent
On the final competition day Belarus bagged two more medals: the 10m air pistol mixed team gold (Aliaksandra Piatrova and Vladislav Demesh) and silver in the same event (Nadezhda Leonovets and Ivan Kazak)...

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

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...