Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona has become the chairman of the board at the Belarusian FC Dynamo Brest. Maradona's agent Matias Morla posted a picture on Instagram posing with the Argentinian and Belarusian flags. read more

Belarus Interior Minister Ihar Shunevich repeated his 2015 stunt when he appeared at the official Victory Day festive rally wearing a NKVD officer uniform replica (a 1944 design). read more

Team Belarus head coach Dave Lewis has resigned. The press office of the Belarusian Ice Hockey Federation says it was 'a joint decision' of the federation and Lewis taken after 'a bad start at the world championship and also taking into accont the situation Team Belarus has found itself in.' read more

According to human rights activists, on April 19 the local court heard the administrative case of 8 Vitsebsk residents, who gathered in a private apartment to chat and drink tea. They were detained by the police, taken to the local station and accused of violating the legislation on mass events. read more

Joe Lynn Turner, 66 former Rainbow and Deep Purple frontman was hospitalized with a heart attack in Minsk, reports TUT.by quoting a spoeksperson from the Emergency Care Hospital in Minsk. read more

The campaign Astraviec March has been launched in Belarus, representatives of several opposition parties and civil society organizations and members of the organized committee of Chernobyl March 2018 announced at a press conference in Minsk. read more

It sits in Europe, shares borders with three European member states but is not part of the European Union. read more

The Minsk Police have started to preventively detain activists and politicians who were about to hold a march on March 25, Belarus’ unofficial Freedom Day. read more

Chinese billionaire Wang Enpei plans to implement Cars for Public Use project, almost all Belarusian mass media reported last week. The head of the Guangzhou Xinjinlai Import and Export Trade company is also set to sign deals with Belarusian dairy and meat-packing enterprises. read more

Lukashenka complained about Russia’s unwillingness to arm the Belarusian army. On 23 February, the ideological periodical of Belarusian government published an article by the defence minister, Andrei Raukou, who described how Belarus would defend itself without mentioning any Russian role in it. read more