Society

Belarusian flag carrier Belavia's new service to Geneva will be launched on December 17, 2013.

Local activists Yury Varonezhtsau, Leanid Sudalenka and Anatol Paplauny are not allowed to stage a street rally to support the political prisoner.

Father Yury Sanko, spokesman for Catholic Priests' Confederation in Belarus, confirms Priest Uladzislau Lazar's arrest.

Minsk's Partizanski District Court rules to sentence three members of Alternativa civil campaign to five days of arrest.

Statistics will have to include revenues of sex workers.

Belarus president does not show up but congratulates Belarusian Orthodox Christians on the 1025th anniversary of the Christianization of Kievan Rus'.

A 70-year-old man pulls out knife to steal cookies worth $3 from a local grocery.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia arrived in Minsk on July 28 by train which also brought the cross of St Andrew the Apostle to Belarus.

A freelance journalist was denied access to a public meeting to discuss measures against African swine fever in the region.