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2025 in Belarus

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Events of the year 2025 in Belarus.

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Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis

January

February

  • 12 February – Three people detained in Belarusian prisons, including an American national and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Andrey Kuznechyk, are released from custody and sent to Lithuania following diplomatic intervention by the US.[2]

March

  • 10 March – President Lukashenko appoints Aleksandr Turchin as prime minister.[3]
  • 17 March – A Japanese resident of Gomel is convicted and sentenced by the Minsk City Court to seven years' imprisonment for spying for Japanese intelligence.[4]
  • 25 March – President Lukashenko is inaugurated for a seventh term in office.[5]
  • 31 March – An American national is arrested for illegally entering Belarus after being discovered inside an empty train car that had arrived in Maladzyechna from Lithuania.[6]

April

  • 30 April – Youras Ziankovich, a dual US-Belarusian national imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow and assassinate President Lukashenko, is released.[7]

May

  • 7 May – President Lukashenko issues pardons to 42 imprisoned opposition activists.[8]
  • 19 May – Lithuania files a case at the International Court of Justice against Belarus accusing it of organising the trafficking of migrants into its territory.[9]

June

  • 21 June – Opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky and 13 other political prisoners are released from prison and deported to Lithuania following a pardon as a result of negotiations with Trump's envoy in Minsk.[10]

July

  • 23 July – Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law allowing Belarusian citizens living as permanently residents in Russia to vote in local elections and run for local office.[11]
  • 25 July – Journalist Danil Palianski is convicted and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on charges of treason and revealing state secrets.[12]

September

  • 3 September – Andrei Podnebenny, a Russian political prisoner sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment by a Belarusian court in 2022 on charges including extremism, arson and vandalism, dies in custody at a jail in Mogilev.[13]
  • 4 September – A Polish Carmelite monk is arrested in Lyepyel on charges of spying on military drills involving Russia.[14]
  • 8 September – The Czech Security Information Service announces the dismantling of an espionage network operating across several European countries and run by the Belarusian KGB following a joint operation by the Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary, prompting the expulsion of a Belarusian diplomat in Prague.[15]
  • 11 September – The United States lifts sanctions against the Belarusian flag carrier Belavia following the release of 52 political prisoners by the Belarusian government. The prisoners are deported to Lithuania; however, opposition leader Mikola Statkevich refuses to be deported and is returned to prison.[16]
  • 12–16 September – The Zapad 2025 joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise is held, prompting Poland to close its border with Belarus.[17]
  • 16 September –
    • Lukashenko issues pardons to 25 people convicted on charges of extremism.[18]
    • Journalist Ihar Ilyash is sentenced to four years' imprisonment on charges of extremism.[19]
  • 19 September – Belarus expels a Czech diplomat in retaliation for the expulsion of a Belarusian diplomat from the Czech Republic on 8 September.[20]
  • 27 September – The International Paralympic Committee lifts the partial suspension of Russia and Belarus from competition that had been imposed following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[21]
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