MINSK, 12 May (BelTA) – Belarus celebrates National Flag and Emblem Day on 12 May this year. The holiday was established by a decree of the President of Belarus in 1995 and is celebrated on the ...

(JTA) — An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor in Belarus was convicted of an “unauthorized mass action” and fined nearly a month’s worth of her pension income for displaying on her balcony the ...

MINSK, 10 May (BelTA) – Belarus’ state flag, 500 meters long and more than 400 kg heavy, will be carried in Minsk on 11 May, Deputy Chairman of the Belaya Rus public association Andrei Basak ...

A 72-year-old woman in Belarus has racked up more than $16,000 in fines for taking part in decades of demonstrations and protests, many alone and holding the banned Belarusian first republic flag.

A white flag with a red stripe down the middle was the official flag of Belarus for several years, historically speaking. At the turn of the 19th–20th century, a cloth with this pattern was used among ...