IIHF World Championship 2014 in Minsk

Foreign beer will disappear from some shops for the period of the ice hockey championship.

Human rights defender Martin Uggla from Sweden on May 7 was not allowed to enter Belarus in order to watch a wold ice hockey championship match.

Two national teams – France and Italy – arrived at the National Airport Minsk on Tuesday evening.

Ivan Kubrakov, head of public safety at Minsk City Police Department, tells media there will be no marches by Russian fans on May 9 in Minsk.

Opposition activists get locked for duration of world ice hockey championship in Minsk.

The co-leader of the youth organization registered in the Czech Republic left his friends’ place on the evening of May 4 and did not reach home.

The police in Minsk on May 5 detained Mikola Dzemidzenka from the Czech Republic-based youth pressure group Young Front.

Russian fan club Russia Unites does not plan to organize a rally in Minsk on Victory Day when the world ice hockey championship kicks off on May 9.

The Jewish community in Minsk will not be able to commemorate the Ghetto victims in a mass ceremony on May 9 when the world cup kicks off.