Sixteen children and a swimming instructor were hospitalized with signs of chlorine poisoning in Minsk on April 24. read more

Manager of Alfa-Bank’s A-Club Alyaksei Matsukin points to an increase in the number of dollar millionaires in Belarus. read more

Uladzimir Putin enacted the simplified procedure of granting the Russian citizenship to native Russian-language speakers. Moreover, persons who speak Russian and whose ancestors lived in the USSR or the Russian Empire can also lay claim to become a citizen of Russia. read more

Hrodna Province Court returned Pavel Selyun guilty of violating four articles of the Criminal Code last June. read more

The Belarusian embassy in Kyiv has been receiving a lot of inquiries from Ukrainian citizens about the possibility of moving to Belarus, Dzmitry Mironchyk, spokesman for the Belarusian foreign ministry, told reporters in Minsk on Thursday. read more

Everyone who hands over a Russian mercenary to the Ukrainian authorities will receive $10,000, Boris Filatov, Deputy Head of Donetsk regional administration, wrote in social media. The region's Governor, oligarch Igor Kolomoysky, is expected to financially back this initiative. read more

The share of people who would vote in a referendum for Belarus' unification with Russia rose from 23.9 percent in December last year to 29.3 percent this past March, while the proportion of those who would vote against fell from 51.4 to 47.7 percent, according to the Vilnius-based Independent read more

However, the attitude to the EU has worsened. The reason is the events in Ukraine. read more

As many as 24 people were killed in Belarus in the first three months of the year as a result of domestic violence, or seven people more than in the same period the previous year, Aleh Karazey, head of the interior ministry's Main Law and Order Protection and Prevention Directorate, told reporters read more

Sergey Khomitsky of Belarus knocks out England's Frank Buglioni who has never lost a single fight before. read more