Press releases

Belarus to compete in seven disciplines of Games of Future in Kazan
Belarusians will compete in seven disciplines: phygital basketball, phygital hockey, phygital martials arts, VR cycling, battle of robots, World of Tanks and Dota 2...

Belarusian Bolshoi Theater to take part in Rimsky-Korsakov festival
The Bolshoi Theater will show The Tsar's Bride opera on 16 March and Scheherazade ballet on 17 March. On the evening of 17 March, the Alexandrovskaya Chamber Hall will host Mozart and Salieri, the composer's one-act opera...

Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya, Anastasia Lenkova declared fit for space flight
The Chief Medical Commission convened for a meeting at the Cosmonaut Training Center on 21 February to analyze the data of medical examinations of the prime and backup crews of Visiting Expedition-21 during preflight training...

Azarenka into Dubai 2024 second round
Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka went off to a good start at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships defeating Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4, in an hour and 20 minutes to progress to the second round...

Belarus’ Khadasevich clinches bronze at 2024 European Weighting Championships
Pavel Khadasevich's biggest achievement at international competitions was silver at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships. Last year Pavel Khadasevich won gold at the 2nd CIS Games...

Belarus’ Hetmanava wins 2024 European Wrestling Championships bronze
Belarus’ Alesia Hetmanava clinched bronze in the Women’s Wrestling 59kg event. The Belarusian wrestler opened her run with a victory over Eda Tekin of Turkiye...

Belarus 95th in FIFA rankings
Belarus go 57th in the FIFA women’s rankings. The rankings are topped by Spain. Top Five also comprises the USA, France, England, and Sweden. The next women’s rankings will be published on 15 March...

Bronze for Belarus at 2024 European Wrestling Championships
In the Greco-Roman Wrestling event Abubakar Khaslakhanau of Belarus claimed the 97kg bronze. The Belarusian beat Aleksandar Stjepanevic of Sweden and Anton Vieweg of Germany, but lost to Armenia’s Artur Alesanyan...

Azarenka advances to Qatar Open quarterfinal
Victoria Azarenka beat Poland’s Magdalena Frech, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the opener and then proved stronger against China’s Wang Xinyu, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2...

BelAZ, MTZ, MAZ named most popular sites for industrial tourism in 2023
“The industrial sites drawing the biggest number of tourists in 2023 were BelAZ (51,500 tourists, up by 58% over 2022), MTZ (19,200 tourists, up by 15%), and MAZ (6,886 tourists, up by 29%). Gomselmash, BATE, BMZ, Mogilevliftmash, Bobruiskagromash have good growth dynamics, too,” noted Dmitry Kharitonchik...

Belarus’ Shymanovich sixth in 100m Breaststroke, earns Olympic berth
Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich finished sixth in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke. His time of 59.35 enabled the athlete to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics...

Belarusian national culture night at Bolshoi Theater in Minsk
Before the performance of the national opera "The Grey Legend", the audience will be able to take part in an interactive event, tour an exhibition of traditional Belarusian costumes and take part in workshops in wearing Namitka and Slutsk belts...

Belarus’ Alina Zmushka earns 2024 Paris Olympics berth
In the Women 100m Breaststroke Belarus’ Alina Zmushka clocked 1:06.77 to qualify to the semifinal in the fourth position. Alina Zmushka’s performance secured her a berth at the 2024 Paris Olympics...

Belarus’ Falei wins ITF event, rises 48 spots in rankings
Aliona Falei of Belarus won the ITF France tournament in Grenoble defeating France’s Manon Leonard, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the final...

Expert names most popular medical services among foreigners in Belarus
According to him, the most popular medical services among foreigners are medical treatment, diagnostics and aesthetic medicine...

Belarus’ Khaslakhanau earns UWW Player of January honors
Abubakar Khaslakhanau of Belarus was named the best Greco-Roman wrestler of January. In January, the Belarusian claimed the champion title in the 97kg event at the major international tournament Zagreb Open...

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

Survey: Belarusians value health and family more than career and high status
EcooM conducted the sociological survey at the request of the Belarusian Information Ministry in January 2024. A total of 1,240 residents were interviewed in all Belarusian regions. The margin of error does not exceed 2.5%...

Vladislav Morozov signs with F.C. Arouca
The 23-year-old forward scored 16 goals and produced four assists for FC Dinamo Minsk that won the champion title last season...

WTA rankings: Sabalenka remains 2nd, Azarenka drops 11 spots
Aryna Sabalenka currently holds 8,905 points. World number one Iga Swiatek has 865 points more...