The festive ceremony has been held in Minsk today.
Archive
Activists locked in jail for 31 thousand hockey periods during championship
16:24 08.05.2014
Opposition activists and football fans will have to spend 10 times more time in jail than our national team has ever played.
Belarus border guards explain denial of entry for Swedish fan
14:13 08.05.2014
"Crude treatment of teddy bears" is behind Belarus' decision to deny entry to Swedish rights activist Martin Uggla.
Russian company hands out St George's ribbons in Minsk (photo)
13:40 08.05.2014
The controversial ribbons are handed out at the fuel stations owned by Russian oil company TНК-ВР.
Donetsk: 1 million ballots for independence referendum destroyed
09:13 08.05.2014
Unknown men destroy ballot papers designed for independence referendum planned by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Belarus restricts foreign beers
08:42 08.05.2014
Foreign beer will disappear from some shops for the period of the ice hockey championship.
US withdraws trade preferences for Russia
08:09 08.05.2014
The preferences were in place under the US Generalized System of Preferences for developing countries.
Political prisoner Andrei Haidukou released from Vistebsk prison
07:58 08.05.2014
The administration of the colony Vitsba-3 has done everything to prevent people from welcoming Haidukou near the prison gate.
