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15 Sep 2017
Big-name Russian TV hosts talk journalism with Belarusian students
Valdis Pelss spoke on how to combine the role of the host of entertainment TV shows and the production of serious films...
15 Sep 2017
Minsk to host plenary session of Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe
The plenary session dedicated to the matters of youth and Europe as a common home will be attended by the heads of European Bishops' Conferences from 45 countries...
15 Sep 2017
Union State youth festival opens in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don on 14 September
This music forum is held annually at the initiative of the Parliamentary Assembly, with the support of the government, the Legislative Assembly and the committee for youth policy of Russia’s Rostov Oblast...
15 Sep 2017
Exhibition to mark 150th anniversary of Wassily Kandinsky opens in Minsk
The project aims to analyze the human nature, the way a person gains an insight, makes a discovery or a breakthrough...
15 Sep 2017
Belarus’ embassy in Russia hosts Ethno Art Fest 2017
Ethno Art Fest was first held in 2016 and was dedicated to the CIS’s 25th anniversary...
15 Sep 2017
Lukashenko sends greetings to People’s Artist of Belarus Bella Masumyan
According to Alexander Lukashenko, many-year creative work of Bella Masumyan focused on the development of the best Belarusian theater traditions deserves utmost appreciation...
14 Sep 2017
Lilya Brik’s coat and Eva Braun’s dress: Alexandre Vassiliev brings his exposition to Minsk
According to Alexandre Vassiliev, the draws of the expo is a summer dress made of silk ribbons from the wardrobe of Rodion Malinovsky’s daughter Natalya, Maya Plisetskaya’s Coco Chanel attire, Lilya Brik’s coat and Eva Braun’s dress...
14 Sep 2017
Belarus to host Days of Kazakhstan Culture in 2018
The cultural establishments of the two countries enjoy steady cooperation as well. Representatives of Kazakhstan take an active part in the Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk concerts, theater and film festivals organized in Belarus...
14 Sep 2017
Victoria Azarenka elected to WTA Player’s Council
Venus Williams (the USA), Johanna Konta (the UK) and Samantha Stosur were also elected to the Player’s Council...
14 Sep 2017
Grodno-Druskininkai bike ride to bring together more than 150 participants
The bike ride is timed to celebrate the Grodno City Day and its 889th birthday...
13 Sep 2017
Belarus to join European Mobility Week 16-22 September
The annual campaign is designed to show the benefits of environmentally friendly transport and the impact of pollutant emissions from transport on public health to urban residents and authorities...
13 Sep 2017
Minsk to gather athletes from 34 states for ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating
The tournament will be the first one for the potential participants of the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games and will precede another big event, the 2019 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Minsk...
12 Sep 2017
Minsk to host Belarus-Russia festival of regional TV companies
Taking part in the event will be representatives of 17 regional television companies from Belarus and Russia...
12 Sep 2017
Minsk to host TEFI Commonwealth TV festival 14-17 September
The festival’s seventh edition is dedicated to documentary movies. Taking part in the competition this year are 20 works from 12 CIS and non-CIS states...
12 Sep 2017
Belarusian foresters victorious at Russian Logging Championship 2017
The Forestry Ministry team will continue training for the forthcoming World Logging Championship which is due in Norway in August 2018...
12 Sep 2017
Youth for the Union State festival to gather about 300 participants from Belarus, Russia
"The Youth for the Union State festival is a large-scale art forum that was first held in 2005 at the initiative of the Belarus-Russia Union State Parliamentary Assembly"...
12 Sep 2017
Lukashenko visits Raj Ghat memorial in New Delhi
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited Raj Ghat memorial in New Delhi where he laid a wreath at Mahatma Gandhi monument...
11 Sep 2017
Ancient Egyptian treasures on display in Belarus
After a lengthy tour in Brazil, Peru, and other Latin America countries the exhibition crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time to arrive in Belarus. It is symbolical because ancestors of the owner of the exhibition came from Belarus...
11 Sep 2017
Piano virtuoso Aleksei Volodin to perform at Yuri Bashmet festival in Minsk 29 September
The program comprises a series of concerts, namely eight Medtner’s fairy tales, Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No.3, and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Sonata No.1...
11 Sep 2017
Minsk second at International Olympiad of Metropolises in Moscow
They competed in two rounds in physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science. Every team included eight school students: two for each subject...
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