Belarus’s Lukashenko calls Putin his “elder brother,” but over his 30-year rule he’s balanced close ties to Moscow with ...

A Russian actress was hired at the Janka Kupala National Theatre after Belarusian actors protested and were dismissed.

The Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank (BSPU) is planning to open the Chinese Language and Culture Centre.

MINSK, 20 February (BelTA) – The National Belarusian Language Dictation will be held on 21 February on International Mother Language Day, BelTA learned from Igor Kopylov, Director of the Yakub ...

Indeed, the first poet to live on the territory of today’s Belarus was undoubtedly Cyril of Turov, a clergyman and preacher who wrote in Church Slavonic. In the 12th century, during his lifetime, it ...

We talk to Olga Sienkiewicz, a teacher of the Belarusian language, about the fate of the Belarusian minority in Poland and about literature from the borderland of cultures. Olga Sienkiewicz (OS): I ...

restrictions on the use of the Belarusian language, and pressure to present a sanitized account of historical relations with Russia. Institutionally, there has been increasing centralization of ...

An open admirer of the Soviet Union, he has restored Soviet-style controls on the economy, discouraged use of the Belarusian language in favor of Russian, and pushed for abandoning the country’s ...