Eight-time Olympic biathlon champion Ole Einar Bjørndalen from Norway has described his plans for the future. read more

Third Secretary of the North Korean Embassy to the Russian Federation and his family have flown to Belarus. The family is allegedly going to flee to some Western country. read more

Every day, the train between the Belarusian city of Brest and the Polish border town of Terespol is packed. A train that usually comprises three or four cars now has eight. read more

Polish frontier guards detained huge consignments of contraband cigarettes from Belarus last week. The first lot found on July 4 set a record – 70 boxes contained 367 thousand packs of cigarettes (7 430 000 cigarettes). They cost about 4.8 million zlotys (over a million dollars). read more

The Romanian police are interrogating the 56-year-old Belarusian who wanted to reach South America from Ukraine in a self-made boat. He was detained in the Back Sea. The man needed medical assistance. The Romanian police are trying to find out the infringer’s name read more

Belarus is still in great danger of forest fires read more

From 29 June to 1 July 2016 Vilnius is hosting the Global Belarusians Meeting. read more

Four local residents and two rescuers are dead. A criminal case has been initiated over the accident. read more

Most Belarusian Internet traffic is generated by the video service YouTube, social network VKontakte and popular game World of Tanks. read more

A huge consignment of contraband cloth costing about 4 billion roubles has been detained at the border check- point Benyakoni. The goods were transported in a truck, the Customs Committee reports. read more