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Photo from open sources
Photo from open sources
The new committee seeks to cooperate with Defense Ministry to improve conditions for military service.
Photo: Reuters
Photo: Reuters
The pontiff is planning to visit Lithuania next autumn. Will he also visit Belarus?
Photo: Euroradio
Photo: Euroradio
The Banksy-like street art in Minsk is named after the former labor minister Mariana Shchotnika who authored the 'parasites tax.'
Photo: greenbelarus.info
Photo: greenbelarus.info
Ural owl, a medium-sized nocturnal owl of the genus Strix, was photographed in a Minsk backyard.
Photo: ehso.emory.edu
Photo: ehso.emory.edu
Extreme radioactive air contamination was observed last September in the Urals but the cause is yet to be officially confirmed.
File photo. Source: Fotolia
File photo. Source: Fotolia
A Belarus citizen was detained when passing documents to the Ukrainian; he is accused of state treason, KGB reveals.
Frenchman Jolan Viaud's intepreter: Photo from Radio Svaboda's video stream.
Frenchman Jolan Viaud's intepreter: Photo from Radio Svaboda's video stream.
Jolan Viaud told reporters upon release he could revisit Belarus when the current head of state is no longer in the office.
Photo: Jolan Viaud released in a courtroom. Screenshot from Radio Svaboda's video stream.
Photo: Jolan Viaud released in a courtroom. Screenshot from Radio Svaboda's video stream.
A court in Belarus finds Frenchman Jolan Viaud not guilty of an intention to smuggle a live cartridge across the border.
Stsiapan Svidzerski talking to reporters upon release. Photo: naszemiasto.pl
Stsiapan Svidzerski talking to reporters upon release. Photo: naszemiasto.pl
A court in Gdynia rules to release Stsiapan Svidzerski involved in the shooting at the Thomson Reuters office earlier this week.