Section: Belarus
Vitebsk to host forum on employment of people with disabilities
Attending the forum will be businessmen, experts from Belarusian and international organizations, representatives of government agencies, and people with disabilities. We expect to welcome over 240 participants from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Kazakhstan, Veronika Gerasimova said. …read more Source:...
Special Olympics football tournament kicks off in Grodno
Grodno is hosting competitions among people with intellectual disabilities for the first time. The tournament will feature ten men’s and six women’s teams (players aged 16-22) from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Estonia. …read more Source:...
Seven countries to participate in song and music festival in Dubrovno
This year we expect guests from all regions of Belarus, as well as from Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Poland, Lyudmila Dudareva said. …read more Source:...
Minsk to host national culture events in June-September
The tradition to hold national culture events in the historic part of Minsk originated last year. Minsk residents got familiar with the cultures of Armenia, Poland, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Israel, Korea and Georgia. …read more Source:...
Hi-Tech Park, Microsoft choose best Belarusian startups
Each team had three minutes to present their project and two minutes to answers questions from the judges and the audience. Three winners were named. The Scrawless team won the first place and will go to the Imagine Cup 2017 semifinals in Kiev where it will compete with the best teams in the Commonwealth of Independent States. …read more...
Belarus into Eurovision 2017 final
The Belarusian entry NaviBand performed their Belarusian-language song Historyja Maiho Zyccia (Story of My Life) in the second semifinal of the 62nd international song competition in Kiev on 11 May. …read more Source:...
Ukraine shows interest in joint ice hockey championship with Belarus
“We are interested in such a tournament. Ice hockey is well-developed in Belarus. The country has necessary infrastructure,” the Ukrainian minister said. …read more Source:...
Religious Freedom in Belarus: worse than in Ukraine, better than in Russia
Lukashenka and Metropolitan Pavel. Photo: naviny.by Last month, the Pew Research Centre released its Global Restrictions on Religion report, which gauges barriers imposed by governments as well as social hostilities towards religious organisations. Out of the nearly 200 countries studied, Belarus ranked among the ‘high-risk’ group...
Minsk to host interuniversity conference on demography 12 May
The forum will feature more than 70 reports from representatives of the leading universities of Belarus, Russia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Germany. …read more Source:...
Lukashenko comments on migrants in Belarus and Europe
What is important is the reasons why people come and from where. Ukrainians came to Belarus. They came because we destroyed their homes? No. They came to save their families. They ran from the destruction in eastern Ukraine. They came to us for salvation and we, as human beings, should help them. These are their reasons, Alexander Lukashenko...
