Press releases

Harnasko wins 2024 Winter Queen Cup in Spain
As a year ago, Alina Harnasko become the absolute winner of this year’s edition, earning 139.484 points in the All-Around event, and receiving the highest points in all individual finals...

About 521,000 tourists visit Belovezhskaya Pushcha in 2023
The tourist flow increased by 6% over 2022. Moreover, the number of foreign visitors increased by more than a third up to 74,000...

Belarus’ Hanna Tserakh claims gold at Russian Track Cycling Championship
t. She was victorious in the first, second and third stages, coming second in the final fourth stage. In the overall standings Hanna Tserakh was 10 points ahead of silver medalist Natalia Frolova from Russia’s Tula Oblast; another Belarusian athlete Karolina Biriuk came third...

Belarus, Russia plan to organize combined tours for Chinese tourists
Chinese travelers in Belarus prefer business, educational, agro, eco, historical, and cultural tourism. Popular tourist destinations include the towns of Mir, Nesvizh, and Kossovo with their castles and also national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and nature reserves such as Belovezhskaya Pushcha and Naliboki Forest...

Over 5,000 excursionists visit Belarusian nuclear power plant in 2023
During the year, 228 tourist groups visited the information center and the training center of the nuclear power plant. There were excursionists from all regions of Belarus, as well as from other countries, including Russia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, and Hungary...

Belarus remains popular destination among Russian travelers
Tourism is one of the key areas of cultural cooperation in the Union State, as Russia and Belarus are of mutual interest to each other...

Over 6,300 EU residents enter Belarus visa-free since 1 January 2024
They include 3,415 citizens of Lithuania, 1,242 citizens and 288 non-citizens of Latvia, as well as 1,360 citizens of Poland...

Sasnovich moves to Adelaide International doubles quarterfinal
Belarus’ Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic reached the Adelaide International quarterfinal after seeing off Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand, 6-4, 2-6, 10-8...

Sabalenka makes Brisbane semifinals
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka powered into the Brisbane International semifinals with a 6-1, 6-4 defeat of Russia’s world number 18 Daria Kasatkina in 1 hour and 26 minutes...

Azarenka holds off Ostapenko to reach Brisbane semifinals
Belarus’ world number 23 Victoria Azarenka edged world number 12 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in a 2-hour and 30-minute battle, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, to make her fifth Brisbane International semifinal...

Sabalenka cruises into Brisbane quarterfinals
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka has reached the Brisbane International quarterfinals defeating world number 33 Zhu Lin of China, 6-1, 6-0, in an hour and nine minutes...

Azarenka makes Brisbane quarterfinals
Belarus’ world number 23 Victoria Azarenka became the first player through to the quarterfinals at the Brisbane International thanks to a 7-5, 6-2 win over France's world number 56 Clara Burel...

Azarenka reaches Brisbane International round of 16
Belarus’ world number 23 Victoria Azarenka defeated world number 80 Anna Kalinskaya of Russia, 6-1, 7-6 (10-8), to advance to the round of 16 at the Brisbane International...

Sabalenka races through Brisbane opener to reach round of 16
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka needed just 58 minutes to pocket her first win of the season, defeating Italy's world number 52 Lucia Bronzetti, 6-3, 6-0, in the second round of the Brisbane International...

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

New Year Tree in Minsk among top ten tallest in CIS
The country’s national New Year Tree, 30 meters high, is located on Oktyabrskaya Square in Minsk. Its official lighting ceremony took place on 15 December...

Sabalenka secures two wins on World Tennis League day one
In the Kites squad the Belarusian paired with Spain’s Paula Badosa defeated the Russian-U.S. tandem Mirra Andreeva and Sofia Kenin 6-3. In the singles Aryna Sabalenka beat Sofia Kenin 6-2...

Belarus 95th in FIFA rankings
Belarus ranks 57th in the women's teams rankings...

2023 World Tennis League gathers top players in Abu Dhabi
The Kites squad will feature Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka, Spain’s world number 64 Paula Badosa, Greece’s world number 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas and Bulgaria’s world number 14 Grigor Dimitrov...

BelTA wins Belarus president’s special prize for art luminaries
The book Last Witnesses is a joint creative project of BelTA and the Prosecutor General’s Office. The book includes stories told by underage prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The stories were written down by investigators as part of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s criminal investigation into the genocide of the Belarusian nation...