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2025 in Belarus
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Events of the year 2025 in Belarus.
Incumbents
- President – Alexander Lukashenko
- Prime Minister – Roman Golovchenko (until 10 March); Aleksandr Turchin (since 10 March)
Events
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Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis
January
- 26 January – 2025 Belarusian presidential election: President Alexander Lukashenko is reelected for a seventh term with 87.6% of the vote.[1]
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 –
- 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]
October
- 13 October – At least 88 people are arrested nationwide on suspicion of involvement with the OSINT military monitoring group Belarusian Hajun that tracked Russian and Belarusian military activity in the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[22]
- 22 October – Imprisoned journalist Andrzej Poczobut is awarded the Sakharov Prize for his reporting.[23]
- 27 October – After multiple air balloon incidents, Lithuania closed its border with Belarus for a period of at least one month, until November 30.[24][25]
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Holidays
- 1-2 January – New Year's Day
- 7 January – Christmas (Orthodox)
- 8 March – International Women's Day
- 29 April – Radonitsa Day
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 9 May – Victory Day
- 3 July – Independence Day
- 17 September – National Unity Day
- 7 November – October Revolution Day
- 25 December – Christmas (Catholic)
Deaths
- 22 July – Edvard Zaikouski, 72, archaeologist[28]
See also
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