Department for liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl disaster at the Ministry of Emergency Situations began checks after the information about the excessive amounts of radionuclides in milk from Khoiniki district. The information was published by the Associated Press. read more

Aliaksandr Lukashenka has signed a decree №156 dated April 27 which introduced a visa-free regime for the citizens of the United Arab Emirates. read more

Vasil Kiryienka, the best Belarusian racing cyclist and member of the British team Sky Procycling, has called the Belarusian language ‘dead’. He sees no sense in Belarusization, he told Radio Liberty. The sportsman can speak Spanish, Italian and a bit of English. read more

Opposition activists protested the on-going construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus during the annual “Charnobylski Shlyakh” (Path of Chernobyl) demonstration staged Tuesday in Minsk on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. read more

Parrots, illegally imported to Belarus in February, first escaped destruction by veterinarians and then flew away. read more

Belarus has refuted information about the excess of radionuclides in milk analyzed by journalists of the Associated Press. The agency published an article stating that milk from a farm situated not far from the contamination zone and delivered to the enterprise Milkavita had been examined in Minsk read more

Belarus is planning or revive the territories contaminated after the Chernobyl disaster, Minister for Foreign Affairs Uladzimir Makei claimed at the conference Thirty years after Chernobyl. From an Emergency to a Revival and Sustainable Socio-Economic Development of Affected Territories in Minsk. read more

Responsibility for extremism and participation in military activities has been enhanced in Belarus. The law was adopted by the parliament in two readings on April 4 and was signed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka on the same day. read more

Belarus is still in the group of countries where the mass media situation is ‘difficult’, the new Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders shows. read more

Minister of Internal Affairs Ihar Shunevich has commented to Euroradio on the mass confiscation of bikes in Minsk for Euroradio. read more