Alyaksandr Lukashenka on December 29 took part in the inauguration ceremony for an ice hockey arena in Baranavichy, a city of 170,000 residents in the Brest region. read more

The song "White Christmas", written by Belarus-born Irving Berlin, was included in top Christmas songs of all time by American mass media. read more

A mass pileup involving 32 cars occurred on Minsk s Beltway on Thursday morning. No injuries were recorded. read more

A final variant of the Decree on Measures for Revising Use of the National Segment of the World Wide Web may be signed on December 24. read more

Seventeen people have been convicted in Belarus under the Criminal Code’s Article 193-1 that penalizes acting on behalf of an unregistered organization, according to the country’s human rights defenders. read more

Alyaksandr Zhytkevich from the village of Bychykha asks the distirct newspaper "Gorodokski Vestnik" to publish a free advertisement about selling his kidney. He made this decision after failure to find a job for seven months. read more

Four people died of hypothermia and 36 were hospitalized with frostbite in Belarus on December 15 and 16. Eleven people were taken to the Minsk-based National Burn Center to receive treatment for frostbite on Wednesday. read more

The five-member Belarusian-Kazakh crew of a plane seized in Bangkok on December 12 with tons of weapons from North Korea may face the death penalty. read more

Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Monday "severely criticized both print and electronic state media outlets," according to the presidential press office. read more

An Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft was detained by Thai authorities after a search in which 35 tons of weaponry including rocket-propelled grenades, missiles and other war weapons and 12 containers with ammunition, was found. read more