Belarusian Sanatoriums Report Average Occupancy Above 86%
Average occupancy at Belarusian sanatoriums in 2025 exceeded 86%, a rise compared with 2024. The figures were presented…
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Belarus Says It Offered Lithuania Talks On The Sidelines Of OSCE Ministerial
Belarus’s Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Sekreta stated that Minsk had proposed holding consultations with Lithuania on the margins of…
Lithuania Declares State Of Emergency Over Smugglers’ Weather Balloons
Lithuania’s government has declared a nationwide state of emergency due to the crisis caused by cigarette-smuggling weather balloons…
Brest Region And China To Build Greenhouse Complex
Brest Region and the People’s Republic of China will jointly build a modern greenhouse complex. The agreement was…
Belarus And Saudi Arabia Hold ICT Business Forum
Belarus and Saudi Arabia are conducting a business forum dedicated to information and communication technologies. A delegation headed…
Lithuania to Consider Freezing or Confiscating Belarusian Assets
Lithuania will consider the possibility of freezing or confiscating Belarusian assets. The issue will be discussed at a…
Tsikhanouskaya and Kallas Discuss Release of Belarusian Political Prisoners
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas on 8 December.…
Belarus and Iran Sign 2026 Cooperation Plan “on Promising Areas”
Belarus and Iran have signed a cooperation plan for 2026 covering promising areas. The document was signed on…
Belarus Plans to Sign Air Transport Agreement With Thailand
Belarus expects to sign an intergovernmental air transport agreement with Thailand in 2026, the Ministry of Transport and…
Yermak’s Resignation, the “Do Not Anger the Old Man” Concept, and the Prospects for Resetting Relations With Belarus
Will Yermak’s Resignation Change Kyiv’s Approach Toward the Belarusian Democratic Movement? One of the most important recent events…
UN Experts Condemn Deportation of Released Political Prisoners from Belarus
UN human rights experts have issued a statement condemning the deportation from Belarus to Lithuania of released political…
Artist Aksana Shaliapina Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Artist Aksana Shaliapina has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony for assisting political prisoners. She…
Belarus and Iran Approve Joint Military Cooperation Plan for 2026
During a visit to Belarus by an Iranian military delegation led by Brigadier General Mohammad Ahadi, Chief of…
Instagram Registers Threads Trademark in Belarus
The National Center for Intellectual Property has published information on the registration of the Threads trademark owned by…
Council of Europe Website Designated as “Extremist” in Belarus
The website of the Council of Europe has been designated as “extremist materials” in Belarus. A ruling by…
Belarusians Post Bank Card Numbers In Threads Hoping For A “Secret Santa” Gift
A viral “game” has spread in the Russian-language segment of the social network Threads: users publicly post their…
Pensioner Dragged Several Metres After Being Caught in Bus Doors in Minsk
In Minsk, a 72-year-old woman was caught in the doors of a bus and dragged several metres along…
NBRB Detects 191 Fraud Cases Involving Visa Services And “Last-Minute” Tours
Belarus’s automated banking-monitoring system has identified 191 fraud cases since early autumn involving visa applications or purchases of…
MTZ Boasts Tractor Sales To Kamchatka
The press service of Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ) has announced that Belarus-made tractors have been shipped to Kamchatka…
CSTO To Draft A Model Law On Protecting Electoral Sovereignty
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) will develop a model law on the protection of electoral sovereignty. The…
Eighteen-Year-Old Mahilyow Resident Charged With Denying The Genocide Of The Belarusian People
Prosecutors have authorised the pre-trial detention of an 18-year-old resident of Mahilyow. He is accused of denying the…
Tsikhanouskaya: The Goal of New Legislation Is to Ensure That Dictatorship Never Returns
The legislative projects being prepared by the Belarusian democratic forces aim to prevent the return of dictatorship. Sviatlana…
Polish Border Guards Have Not Recorded Migrant Crossing Attempts for Six Days
Poland’s Border Guard reported no attempts by migrants to cross the border over the weekend. This means that…
“The Stronger Belarusian Society Becomes, the Weaker the Presence of Lukashenka and Putin in Belarus”
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya addressed the high-level conference “Belarus: Building Foundations for Democratic Change” in the European Parliament, stating that…
Minsk Tractor Works Plans To Deliver 6,000 Tractors To Africa
Alyaksandr Aksenchyk, deputy marketing director for commercial operations in distant markets at the Minsk Tractor Works, said that…
BELPOL: Forty-Two Drone Crashes Recorded In Brest Region
BELPOL reports that a recent coordination meeting was held at the Brest Regional Executive Committee to discuss “increased…
Tsikhanouskaya To Speak in Brussels at High-Level Conference on Belarus
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya will address the high-level conference “Belarus: Building the Foundations for Democratic Change” today in Brussels. The…
Prosecutors Find “Rotten Vegetables” and “Damaged Kitchenware” in Mahilyow Region Schools
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Mahilyow Region reported on inspections of school canteens carried out together with specialists…
Kenyan Parliamentary Delegation to Visit MTZ, HTP and the “Dziarzynski Agro-Complex”
A delegation of Kenya’s Parliament has arrived in Belarus, led by Senate Speaker Amazon Jeff Kinga. The group…
Traffic Police to Conduct New Inspection Campaign Targeting Minibuses
Belarus’s traffic police will once again carry out a nationwide inspection campaign focused on minibuses. The preventive operation…
Lithuanian Politician Proposes Compensating Hauliers Using Belarusian Assets
Lithuanian Democratic Union “For Lithuania” leader and former prime minister Saulius Skvernelis has suggested using Belarusian assets to…
New Great Stone Resident to Produce Server Equipment
The Great Stone Industrial Park (Belarus) has registered two new resident companies. The first, a Chinese-owned company called…
“This Award Belongs to All Belarusians Who Continue to Fight”
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Received the Bonn International Prize for Democracy and the Rule of Law The ceremony for the…
Eismant Confirms That Viktar Lukashenka Oversees Relations With Oman
Press Secretary Natallia Eismant said on Belarus 1 television that the elder son of Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Viktar Lukashenka,…
Lukashenka’s Plane Manages to Return Home
Protest Against Hybrid Attacks Held Near Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius
A protest against the regime’s hybrid attacks took place today near the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius, the Office…
Train Rabkor–Babruisk Halted Due to Malfunction, Belarusian Railway Says
Train No. 6516 from Rabkor to Babruisk, which departed Rabkor station at 13:43, was forced to stop at…
Belarus to Launch First Electric Buses on Suburban Routes in 2026
The first electric buses for suburban transport will appear in Belarus in 2026. The vehicles, which have a…
Belarus Sends 15 Tonnes of Medicines to Myanmar
At the end of this week, Belarus carried out its first major shipment of medicines to Myanmar. The…
Christian Preacher Convicted of “Aiding Extremism” Remains in Custody
Christian preacher Aliaksei Yahella, convicted of “aiding extremism,” remains in custody, the Viasna Human Rights Centre reports. Earlier…
Reporting to Police via Chatbot Now Possible Across Belarus
The press service of the Interior Ministry of Belarus has announced the launch of a Telegram chatbot operating…
Iran’s Foreign Minister to Visit Belarus “In the Coming Weeks”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Belarus and Russia as part of ongoing consultations that Iran regularly…
More Than 20,000 Surveillance Cameras to Be Installed on Residential Buildings in Minsk
Minsk City Housing Management will install more than 20,000 surveillance cameras on residential buildings, the organisation’s director general,…
Two Tonnes of Pork Fat Stolen in Mahilyow District
Two tonnes of pork fat disappeared from a warehouse belonging to a 25-year-old entrepreneur in the Mahilyow District.…
Vilnius Airport Halted Operations for Ninety Minutes on Saturday Evening Due to Weather Balloons
On 6 December, Saturday, at 19:32 (GMT+2), Vilnius Airport resumed operations after restrictions in the airspace were lifted.…
IAEA Says Chernobyl Sarcophagus Has Lost Its Key Functions After February Attack
An IAEA team last week completed a comprehensive safety assessment of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) at the…
Belarusian Government Approves Development Cooperation Agreement With China
Belarusian Cigarettes Found on Two Trains in Poland
Polish customs officers intercepted two consignments of Belarusian cigarettes transported on freight trains. At the border crossing in…
Belarus Complains to the IAEA About Lithuania
Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Ihar Siakreta met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on 5 December. The…
37 OSCE States Issue Statement on Repression in Belarus and Urge Authorities To End Human-Rights Violations
Thirty-seven OSCE participating States have issued a statement regarding repression in Belarus and called on the Belarusian authorities…