Society

Activists protest against a restaurant near the mass graves - the site of executions of Belarusians during Stalin's repressions.

The culture minister proposes Brest residents to come up with a new name for Khalturin street.

"This is history, traditions and memory for me even though I am half Belarusian by origin,” Yuliya Mamedava said.

President's aide in Hrodna region Siarhei Rauneyka was detained when receiving $200 000 as a bribe.

Workers discovered Jewish grave stones at a Minsk metro construction site in the center of Belarusian capital city.

The executions were revealed accidentally when two other death-row convicts were appealing the verdict in the Supreme Court.

Ideology officials say it is premature to rename the city's library after Francysk Skaryna. It currently bears the name of Lenin.

Check out how over one ton of explosives destroyed the damaged bridge in this impressive video.

Russian human rights lawyer Elena Tonkacheva is allowed to stay in Belarus for one year.