Vitebsk, Belarus News

Prominent Belarusian cyclist Zinaida Stahurskaya, 38, was killed in a traffic accident on June 25, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

Former road race world champion Zinaida Stagurskaya has been killed after being hit by a car while training in her native Belarus.

Belarus has tightened the customs controls over cargo traffic on the border with Russia, spokesman for the Belarussian State Customs Committee Vladimir Pekhterev told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.

A Moscow court has found three Russians guilty of human trafficking, illegal incarceration, and the organization of a prostitution ring in Moscow, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

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Agricultural economies of Gomel oblast became the first in Belarus, which completed the sowing campaign of early grains, declared the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on April 17.

To date, agrarians sowed spring grains and legumes throughout 228.200 ha or 22% of planned areas.

Five activists in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk are going on trial on March 26 on charges of participating in unsanctioned protests, RFE/RL's Belarusian Service reports.

Jackie Wullschlager, the art critic for the British newspaper Financial Times , has written a new biography of Chagall using access to family archives, letters, interviews with family members, and other material to build a fascinating picture of a truly unusual career.

The United Democratic Forces in Belarus have called on EU leaders to not invite Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to Prague for the EU summit in May, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

The 28-year-old footballer has once played for Pyunik and Ararat clubs. Last year, Tadevosyan played for Vitebsk Belarusian team.

Activists in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk are protesting the construction of apartments on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp.

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VITEBSK, Belarus a ' The USA won three medals, two silver and one bronze, at the Slavic Games Open in Vitebsk, Belarus.