International Olympic Committee urges sporting bodies to let Belarusian athletes compete again without vetting as neutrals. Published On 7 May 20267 May 2026 Athletes from Belarus should once again compete with their full national identity and not be vetted for neutral status, the International Olympic Committee has said. Though the advice to sports governing bodies…
Athletes from both countries will compete without national flags, anthems, logos or uniforms in World Boxing events. Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026 Boxers from Russia and Belarus will be free to compete “with immediate effect” in international competitions as neutral athletes, World Boxing says. “The procedure was approved by the executive board of…
Shorouk Express “The United States is lifting sanctions on potash,” Coale told journalists in Minsk. “I think this is a very good step by the U.S. toward Belarus. We are lifting them now,” he said in remarks reported by state-run Belarusian news service Belta. “As relations between the two countries normalize, more and more sanctions…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 20. Iran and Belarus came together in Minsk today to sign off on a series of cooperation documents, wrapping up their efforts with a joint declaration between the two countries, Trend reports via the official information portal of the Iranian president. The joint declaration was signed by Iranian President Masoud…
Shorouk Express Tsikhanovski’s arrest provoked widespread protests in Belarus, which didn’t, however, result in the ouster of its strongman leader, Lukashenko. The opposition leader’s wife, Tsikhanouskaya, was forced into exile to Lithuania after Lukashenko declared himself the winner in the contested 2020 elections. Russian media outlet RBC named journalist Igor Karney and Minsk academic Natalia…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 16. On June 16, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov paid an official visit to the Republic of Belarus at the invitation of the Minister of Defense of Belarus, Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin, Trend reports. At Minsk National Airport, Belarusian Defense Minister met…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 5. We are looking for partners for Belarusian companies, and if we are in Azerbaijan today, then we are also looking for partners among Belarusian companies for Azerbaijani ones, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) Alexander Osmolovsky told Trend. He first provided information about BUCE….
Shorouk Express This is not the first wave of migration Poland has attempted to stem. In 2021, Poland faced a national emergency as tens of thousands of people attempted to cross its border with Belarus as its leader Alexander Lukashenko weaponized desperate migrants in retaliation for sanctions imposed on him and his allies. “We’re not…
Shorouk Express “Pushbacks at the Poland-Belarus border are generalized and systemic,” said Egala Advocacy Lead Aleksandra Gulińska. “We continuously come across people in the forest who have been forcibly returned to Belarus by Polish authorities.” Despite such allegations, the European Commission in December allocated €52 million to bolster surveillance and infrastructure along Poland’s eastern border….
Shorouk Express As expected, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka was re-elected for a seventh term in Belarus’s January 26 presidential election. According to the official results, the autocrat won 86.2 percent of the vote. Of his four rivals – all more or less close to the regime – none received more than 3.21 percent. The turnout…
