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Belarus allows bear hunting for first time since 1990
[Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:36:56 +0300] Minsk – Saba: The Belarusian Ministry of Forestry announced on Monday that authorities in Minsk have permitted bear hunting for the first time since 1990 due to a sharp increase in their population. In a statement...

Belarusians Have Found A Way Not To Punch QR Codes On Goods
9 How it works. It's not obligatory to punch QR codes at cash registers - Belarusians have found a way to bypass the system, reports Blizko.by. Soon Belarusians will be obliged to read labeling codes in addition to the existing barcodes when...

Freed Belarus Opposition Leader Addresses UN Days After 5-Year Prison Ordeal
GENEVA — Sergei Tikhanovsky, Belarus opposition leader and husband of President-elect Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, addressed the UN Human Rights Council, days after his release from prison, where he had spent five years as a political prisoner under...

Nigeria Customs Signs Cooperation Agreement With Belarus
Tunde Bakare The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Customs Matters with the Republic of Belarus. The agreement was concluded on Friday, 27th June 2025, as...

Belarus’ special forces train with new gyroplanes
Belarusian special operations troops have begun using Belarusian-built “Yastreb” gyroplanes in a new phase of flight training exercises, according to official footage released from Maryina Horka, a key training ground for elite units. The training...

Will The Price Of Cars From The EU Rise Sharply In Belarus?
8 Brussels is changing the rules. There is talk in the EU that owners of used cars will become more difficult to sell them because of the planned innovations by the European Commission. All this means that it may become more difficult for...

A Sign About Kuropaty Disappeared On Minsk Ring Road
7 Archive photo All that remains are holes in the ground and signs of vandalism. A plaque about Kuropaty has disappeared on the Minsk ring road. This was written in her channel by denouncer and pro-Russian activist Olga Bondareva, reports...

Russia Changes Entry Rules For Foreigners: What Should Belarusians Expect?
6 The changes began to be enacted on June 30. The Russian Federation from June 30 began introducing changes to entry rules that affect foreigners, reports "The Point" It is noted that the new conditions will apply at all checkpoints across the...

Special operation in Belarus prevents drone attack
Belarus’s State Security Committee has prevented an attempted drone attack on strategic facilities, APA reports citing the committee’s press service. It was noted that the “Harpun” special operation, conducted for this purpose, lasted 732 days. As...

I lost half my weight in jail, but I'm not broken, says freed Belarus opposition leader
Sarah RainsfordEastern and Southern Europe correspondent Reporting fromLithuania ShareSave Sergei Tikhanovskyholds a poster of himself to show what he looked like before being arrested Sergei Tikhanovsky has barely spoken for more than five years....

I lost half my weight in jail, but I'm not broken, says freed Belarus opposition leader
Sarah RainsfordEastern and Southern Europe correspondent Reporting fromLithuania ShareSave Sergei Tikhanovskyholds a poster of himself to show what he looked like before being arrested Sergei Tikhanovsky has barely spoken for more than five years....

Now that tractors from Belarus are here
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commissioned 2,000 agricultural tractors to kick-start the administration’s Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme. The event took place at the National Agricultural Seeds Council, Sheda, along the...

"Aryna Sabalenka likes to show her emotions, Iga Swiatek cries after she loses": Jessica Pegula shuts down Belarusian's critics after Coco Gauff drama
Jessica Pegula recently weighed in on Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff's post-French Open controversy. According to Pegula, people who criticized Sabalenka over her comments about Gauff have never found themselves in situations that can trigger...

Another political prisoner dies at Mandalay’s Obo; Justice for Myanmar accuses Minsk of arming Naypyidaw
Another political prisoner dies at Mandalay’s Obo Prison A total of 56 political prisoners have died at Obo Prison due to inadequate healthcare since January, a human rights group calling itself Myanmar Prison Witness announced on Friday. It also...

TMSG: Atiku’s Stance On Nigeria-Belarus Tractor Deal, Diversionary
News Investigators/ The Tinubu Media Support Group (TMSG) has advised Nigerians to ignore ploys by the opposition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to distract attention from the successful Nigeria-Belarus tractor deal which analysts...

Top Belarusian diplomat warns about catastrophic impact of Middle East conflict on Europe
MINSK, June 29. /TASS/. The situation in the Middle East is fraught with catastrophic consequences for Europe, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov said. "It [the conflict] will have much more disastrous consequences because they [European...

One Hundred Kilograms Of Hashish Were Tried To Be Imported Into Belarus
9 Tried disguising it as pear puree. Customs officers stopped the importation of about 100 kg of hashish from the European Union to Belarus. Lithuanians and Belarusians were involved in the movement of drugs, reports the State Customs Committee....

Three Belarusian Hockey Players Were Drafted By NHL Clubs
1 Egor Borikov The record for the selection of Belarusians at the main talent fair was repeated. Three Belarusian hockey players were selected by NHL clubs at the 2025 NHL Draft, reports "The Point". Montreal secured the rights to goaltender...

Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi meets Russian President in Minsk, Belarus
Shaikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has met Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, on the sidelines of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council meeting today in Minsk, Belarus. At the outset of the...

Belarusians in Warsaw celebrate prisoner release, hope for more
WARSAW: Belarusian exile Asya watched from the sidelines in central Warsaw as a crowd greeted and applauded Sergei Tikhanovsky, the Belarus opposition figure who was unexpectedly released, barely recognisable after five years in prison. A popular...