Press releases

Sabalenka progresses into Indian Wells quarterfinal
Belarus’ world number 2 Aryna Sabalenka downed world number 16 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, to reach the Indian Wells quarterfinal...

Motto, mascot for 2nd CIS Games in Belarus approved
Vitaly Ostrovsky, head of the marketing department of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus, has said that the logo reflects a number of major Belarusian elements - the ornamental eight-pointed star, which blooms into a bright cornflower...

Sasnovich, Ivashka off to good start at Indian Wells
Belarus’ world number 85 Ilya Ivashka saw off Russia’s world number 113 Roman Safiullin, 6-4, 6-2...

Six medals for Belarus at Emirates Sports Karate Open
The international competitions in the UAE featured almost 600 athletes from 19 countries. Belarus fielded eight athletes, six of whom clinched medals...

Visa-free entry for Polish citizens extended to all checkpoints on Belarus’ border with EU
The new regulation will come into force at midnight on 2 March and will be in effect until 31 December 2023. The State Border Committee noted that the decision was prompted by the high demand for the visa-free entry...

Belarus’ Polina Sivets claims Children of Asia champion title
Kuzbass Ice Arena in Russia’s Kemerovo hosted the 3,000m speed skating event on Thursday. Captain of the Belarusian team at the Games Polina Sivets clocked 4:30.72 to claim gold...

Belarus Events Calendar: MARCH 2023
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...

Belarus secure second medal at Children of Asia Games
Belarus’ Vasily Borokhovsky clinched bronze in figure skating with the total of 204.48 points. Pavel Gavdis of Belarus finished 7th among 15 participants...

Aryna Sabalenka reaches Dubai quarterfinal
In the quarterfinal the Belarusian will face world number 30 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic...

2023 Minsk International Book Fair to be held on 22-26 March
The fair traditionally gathers exhibitors from 10-30 countries...

Belarus hosts over 57,000 visa-waiver travelers since year’s start
Since 1 January 2023, Belarus has hosted 57,044 arrivals from the EU as part of its visa-waiver program: 41,428 citizens of Lithuania, 2,262 non-citizens and 8,410 citizens of Latvia, and 4,944 Polish citizens...

COVID-19 off Belarus’ list of high-risk diseases
To date, more than 6.678 million residents of Belarus (72.2% of the total population) have received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine; more than 6.577 million of them (or 71.1%) have completed the vaccination regimen...

Sabalenka remains 2nd in WTA rankings
The Belarusian holds 6,100 points and goes behind Iga Swiatek of Poland...

Minsk hosting Future Cup ice hockey tournament
Competing will be the Belarusian junior team, Kazakhstan’s U20 team, Russian U18 and U17 teams. The matches will be played through Sunday...

Belarus’ Lidziya Marozava off to good start at Linz Open
Lidziya Marozava of Belarus, teamed with Xinyun Han of China, went off to a good start at the 2023 Linz Open defeating the Czech duo Anastasia Detiuc and Miriam Kolodziejova, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-3 to progress into the quarterfinal...

Belarus’ Egor Gerasimov reaches Challenger Vilnius main draw
Belarus’ world number 414 Egor Gerasimov has reached the Challenger 100 main draw in Vilnius seeing off Kazakhstan’s Beibit Zhukayev (World No.304), 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second qualifying round...

Belarus Events Calendar: FEBRUARY 2023
Holidays, festivals, exhibitions...

Belarus’ Lidziya Marozava to play at Lyon Open
In the opener Lidziya Marozava and Germany’s Vivian Heisen will take on Russia’s Alexandra Panova and Olga Danilovic of Serbia...

Belarus’ Alina Harnasko wins five gold medals at Winter Queen Cup in Spain
Belarusian athletes clinched 15 medals. Alina Harnasko, a bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympics Games, became the absolute champion of the tournament in Spain...

Intellectual Belarus expo draws 80,000-100,000 visitors
The exposition was divided into a number of clusters: artificial intelligence, IT-technologies, robotics; innovative instrumentation; electric transport and its basic components; defense and military science; ecology, nature management; biotechnologies; pharmacy, healthcare, medicine; agroindustrial complex, food; youth initiatives...