By Natalia Bordilovskaya: Belarus is celebrating the 134th anniversary of the birth of national poet Ivan Lutsevich known worldwide as Yanka Kupala.
Culture
By Olga Medved: The permanent exhibition of Russian art at Belarus’ National Art Museum has been replenished with nine works by worldwide famous marine painter and collector Ivan Aivazovsky.
By Natalia Bardilovskaya: The ancient folk holiday of Kupala Night, or Kupalle, is celebrated in all Slavic countries and is especially popular in Belarus.
Kupala Night, or Kupalle, is one of the oldest folk festivals of the Sun, summer maturity and green meadows. It is believed that on the Kupala Night trees, grass and animals are talking and hidden underground treasures are glowing.
By Olga Medved: The 24-hour open-air museum near the Minsk City Hall is currently exhibiting the project Free Museum: Urban Legends dedicated to people who lived and worked in the Belarusian capital.
The Heritage of Belarus exhibition by Alexander Alekseyev and Oleg Lukashevich, dedicated to the country’s Independence Day, has opened at Belarus’ diplomatic mission in Paris.
The 25th International Festival of Arts Slavic Bazaar will be attended by over 5,000 visitors from 44 countries, which is an absolute record in the Festival’s history.
By Natalia Bardilovskaya: Budslav, an agrotown in the Myadel district, is hosting a spiritual festival in honour of the Budslav Mother of God icon, which is one of the most honoured relics.
A Star Walk will be unveiled during the festival. It will take place in Vitebsk on July 14-18.
Daria Tarasova: Today, the Palace of the Republic held the Opening Day of a large art project "Belarus through the eyes of Russian artists" timed to the Day of Independence of our country .
Elena Bormotova: Yesterday Belarus has suffered an irreparable loss. Actor Rostislav Yankovsky (86) and composer Sergei Kortes (81) died within two hours.
The first stage of an audition for the 2016 Junior Eurovision national selection at Belteleradiocompany featured 45 participants, 39 of them being solo artists and 6 vocal groups.
The Armenian culture festival in Minsk offered open-air dance classes, national cuisine and souvenirs. Interactive presentations of their cultures will be also held by Poland, Korea, Israel, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Georgia.
Solo performers and groups will compete for the right to represent our county at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. A professional jury will evaluate the performances of young artists.
By Nina Mozheiko: Belarus’ cultural identity is among the priorities of Belarus’ development for the next five years, which is especially relevant in the Year of Culture.
The Fifth All-Belarusian People's Assembly is held on a very important date for our republic. The Great Patriotic War, the bloodiest war of the 20th century, started on this day 75 years ago.
Bolshoi Theater in Moscow will plunge the public in the history of the 14th-15th centuries. Nearly 40 years of rule by the famous Duke Vytautas will be told to the public through dance and music.
By Daria Tarasova: The first Belarusian icon painting plain-air session in Logoisk featured iconographers from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine, tasked with painting icons using modern techniques and new decoration materials.
The final of the Miss Belarus national beauty pageant is taking place at the Palace of Sports, 26 contestants competing for a 120 gramme crown made of white gold and decorated with half a thousand phianites and topazes.
BTRC reserves 10 days for the parcels with compositions to reach the address of the media holding so that all of them were considered by the organizers.
The applicants will be able to present their compositions on June 27. As a result of auditions, the jury will determine from 7 to 10 contenders for the final.
The remains of mammoths, fossils of the first forms of life dating back to hundred million years ago. A round skull, bones of the woolly rhinoceros, a tooth of a cave bear.
Bu Nina Mozheyko: Today we will speak about the real gem of the Belarusian territory, the palaces and castles. Once upon a time there were more than a hundred of them.
Previously unknown letters from the front, personal belongings of soldiers, medals, awards and other evidence of the war












