Press releases

Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk 2021
The 30th edition of the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk will be running on 15-18 July, with additional events scheduled for 14 and 19 July...

Belarusian Aryna Sabalanka rises to No.3 in WTA ranking
After the Wimbledon semifinal Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka rose one notch to become No. 3 in the WTA rankings. Now she has 6965 points...

Belarus announces roster for Olympic Games in Tokyo
Belarus’ NOC has announced Belarus’ roster for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo that will be running from 23 July to 8 August. The lineup is available on the NOC website...

Belarus reports 1,250 new COVID-19 cases, 1,335 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 425,804 cases...

Belarus' COVID-19 latest: 1,035 new cases, 1,173 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 424,554 cases...

Alexandria Gathers Friends 2021
The Kupala Night Festival (Alexandria Gathers Friends), the largest summer folk festival, will take place on 10 July...

Belarus reports 998 new COVID-19 cases, 1,049 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 423,519 cases...

Men's relay silver for Belarus at Modern Pentathlon European Championships
Ilya Polozkov and Yaroslav Radzyuk scored 1,485 points in the men's relay to place second to Italy’s Giuseppe Parisi and Roberto Micheli (1,495 points)...

Three Belarusians medal at Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Hungary
In the Men’s High Jump Maksim Nedasekau cleared 2.37m to set a new national record and to win the gold medal of the tournament. He was followed by two athletes from Russia, Ilya Ivanyuk and Mikhail Akimenko, who performed in the neutral status...

Sabalenka into Wimbledon semifinal
Second-seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus has stormed into the last four at Wimbledon, her career first Grand Slam semifinal, after clinching a strait victory over Ons Jabeur of Tunisia 6-4, 6-3 in the quarterfinal...

Belarus' COVID-19 update: 557 new cases, 415 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 422,521 cases...

Belarus win women’s relay event at European Modern Pentathlon Championships
The Belarusians were convincing winners in the women’s relay scoring 1,430 points...

Belarus’ Iryna Zhuk third in pole vault at Stockholm Diamond League
Polina Knoroz took the win with 4.71m on the second attempt. British Holly Bradshaw finished second with 4.61m on countback over Iryna Zhuk...

Sabalenka makes first Grand Slam quarterfinal
Second-seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus made her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at Wimbledon after beating Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the round of 16 clash...

Belarus’ COVID-19 latest: 614 new cases, 488 recoveries
All in all, Belarus performed 6,875,575 tests, including 9,234 tests in the past 24 hours...

Belarus reports 944 new COVID-19 cases, 1,168 recoveries
All in all, Belarus performed 6,866,341 tests, including 18,045 tests in the past 24 hours...

Aryna Sabalenka advances into Wimbledon forth round
The Belarusian will take on Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan. In the first round Aryna Sabaenka beat Romanian Monica Niculescu (191) 6-1, 6-4, and then overcame the British Katie Boulter (219) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3...

Belarus' COVID-19 update: 1,118 new cases, 1,144 recoveries
The nationwide coronavirus tally now stands at 419,330 cases...

Sasnovich, Ivashka into third round of Wimbledon 2021
In the second-round match World No. 100 Aliaksandra Sasnovich outpowered WTA No. 85 Nao Hibino of Japan 6-4, 7-6. Ilya Ivashka beat Jeremy Chardy of France 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-4...

Foreigners encouraged to get vaccine shots in Belarus
The Healthcare Ministry will determine which healthcare organizations will be able to offer vaccines to foreigners for a price...