Minsk

Independent TV journalists Volha Chaychyts and Tatsyana Belashova were arrested in Minsk on June 1. Read More

Alyaksey Pikulik, the academic director of the Vilnius-based Belarusian Institute of Strategic Studies (BISS), was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct in Minsk on May 31. Read More

The Belarusian government has found an investor that would take over the construction of a large residential and office district in Minsk, Deputy Prime Minister Anatol Kalinin told reporters on May 31. Read More

About 6,000 Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) with a procession through the center of Minsk on Sunday, according to the press office of the Minsk city police department. Read More

A 58-year-old man in Minsk has been charged with sexually abusing boys aged between 13 and 15 in a period between 2010 and 2011, Alyaksandr Herasimaw, spokesman for the Investigative Committee's Minsk city office, told BelaPAN on Wednesday. Read More

The military parade to be staged in Minsk on Independence Day, July 3, will involve heavy combat vehicles and aircraft. Read More

A management company for the Belarusian-Chinese industrial park to be developed in the Smalyavichy district near Minsk will be registered "very soon," Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Anatol Tozik said at a meeting with a delegation of China CAMC Engineering Co., Ltd. (CAMCE) in Minsk on Friday, said the press office of the Belarusian Council of Ministers. Read More

Young opposition activist Uladzimir Yaromenak was apprehended in Minsk on May 16. Read More

Authorities in the Belarusian capital Minsk have prevented gay activists from holding protests to mark the International Day Against Homophobia on May 17. Read More

Leningrad, who are scheduled to give a gig in Minsk on May 18, will play their songs uncensored in defiance of a warning issued by the Prosecutor General's Office, the manager of the Russian rock band, Denis Veyko, told BelaPAN . Read More