A canine dog from the small village of Budochka in Belarus has inherited a whopping $1 million from a US citizen. The ten-year-old dog named Zhulik inherited the fortune from late John Fyodorov, who was born in Budochka but migrated to the US after World War II, according to local newspaper Respublika Daily. ...
05:25 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko are travelling to Caracas to attend the funeral of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, state television reported. ...
02:20 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Victoria Azarenka has opened the defense of her Australian Open title with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Monica Niculescu. ...
09:21 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Saint-Denis: Franck Ribery scored a well-taken goal and helped create the other two as France beat Belarus 3-1 in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Midfielder Etienne Capoue and right back Christophe Jallet earned their first international goals as France followed up Friday's 1-0 win in Finland with an encouraging performance ahead of next month's crucial match away to European and World Cup champion Spain. After Anton Putilo pulled a...
01:51 AM, Sep 12, 2012
London: Olympic women's shot put champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk has been stripped of the gold medal she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid. Two urine samples taken from the Belarussian before and after her win last Monday tested positive for metenolone, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement on Monday, the day after the Games ended. "Ostapchuk is disqualified...
04:50 PM, Aug 13, 2012
London: Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the Rogers Cup on Friday because of a knee injury. Azarenka, who had a first-round bye, was level at 3-3 in her second-round match against Tamira Paszek when it was suspended by rain Thursday night. The 23-year-old Belarusian won two Olympic medals in London, taking gold in mixed doubles and bronze in singles. Meanwhile Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic dispatched Marion Bartoli 6-1,...
02:16 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: World silver medalist Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus won Olympic gold in the women's shot put on Monday. Ostapchuk posted a winning distance of 21.36 in the third round, with defending champion Valerie Adams of New Zealand taking the silver after throwing 20.70. Evgeniia Kolodko of Russia snatched the bronze on her last attempt with a personal best 20.48. Former world bronze medalist Lijao Gong of China was pushed off...
02:21 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: The Belarusian pair of Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi held their nerve in a tiebreak for the gold medal to beat Britain's Andy Murray and Laura Robson on Sunday. Murray was angling for his second gold of the day after beating Roger Federer to win the men's singles, but he and Robson were defeated 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 on a tiebreak by Mirnyi and women's world No. 1 Azarenka. The...
03:03 AM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Sergei Martynov of Belarus became the second shooter in Olympic history to score the maximum 600 points in qualifying for the final of the men's 50-meter rifle prone at the London Olympics on Friday. The top-ranked Martynov, competing in his sixth Olympics, matched the 16-year-old achievement by Christian Klees of Germany at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Klees went on the set the Olympic finals record at 704.8 points, which...
03:57 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Manchester: Neymar set up two goals and scored from a free kick to help Brazil beat Belarus 3-1 on Sunday, securing the gold-medal favorite a spot in the quarterfinals of the men's Olympic football tournament. Neymar struck a well-placed right-foot shot into the left upper corner of the net in the 65th minute to break a deadlock as Brazil struggled to get near the Belarus goal despite controlling possession at...
09:57 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Minsk: Belarus has no plans to boycott the Olympics after President Alexander Lukashenko was refused entry to Britain, the Belarusian minister for sports and tourism said. Lukashenko was denied accreditation because of the flawed presidential elections of 2010, when he was accused of overseeing a brutal crackdown on opposition forces and arresting hundreds of people including presidential candidates, the British embassy in Belarus said. Lukashenko is also head of Belarus'...
10:48 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Coventry: Dmitry Baga scored in the first half to give Belarus a 1-0 win over New Zealand in their Group C opener at the Olympic football tournament on Thursday. Baga scored with a header just before halftime, which proved enough to secure the three points at the City of Coventry Stadium. Belarus dominated the first half, before New Zealand came out stronger for the second but was unable to break...
02:54 AM, Jul 27, 2012
London: World number one players Roger Federer and Victoria Azarenka will head the list of seeded players in the draws for the London Olympics' tennis tournament. The draw will be held at Wimbledon on Thursday for the star-packed tennis competition beginning Saturday, Xinhua reports. Each of the singles tournaments has 64 competitors, with 16 seeds based on the world rankings of June 11. Reigning Wimbledon champion Federer aims to win...
03:40 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Minsk: A gold bar weighing one kilogram was dropped into a charity collection box in the Belarussian city of Brest, a media report said on Friday The gold bar was discovered in a charity box set up in a grocery store to collect money for the Orthodox Church, the ONT television reported. The anonymous donor also slipped the $50,000 gold brick's certificate of authentication into the collection box. According to...
05:06 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Minsk: Police used tear gas to break up an anti-government protest in Belarus and forcefully detained dozens of demonstrators on Sunday in the capital. The authoritarian government had tried to thwart the protest by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter and a major Russian social networking site used by the organisers. The government also deployed thousands of police and secret service agents in central Minsk as an additional deterrent. But about...
09:19 AM, Jul 04, 2011
England concluded their World Cup qualifying campaign with a win. ...
01:36 PM, Oct 15, 2009
Three tubes 50 meters apart will provide safe passage for frogs. ...
07:42 PM, Apr 30, 2009
