News of Minsk and Minsk region

Minsk's Maskouski District Court sentences Dankoff Club owner to 8 years in prison and confiscation of property.

Motorists carried out a protest action against a new 'car tax' in Minsk's central street on Friday night.

An Iveco truck driver loses controls of his vehicle on Minsk-Vilnius highway some 50 km off Belarus capital in the evening of December 21.

Motorists respond to calls in social networks to hold a Stop Tax protest in downtown Minsk on Friday.

Minsk's Central District Court judge Victoria Shabunya on December 20 sentenced Maxim Vinyarski to 15 days of administrative detention.

Motorists in Belarus are called via social networks to hold protest actions on Friday against the car tax.

The police in Minsk step up preparations for the 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship to be hosted by Belarus capital next May.

The incident occurred on Thursday morningon the sidelane from Minsk belt road's internal circle in Hromau Street.

The 33-year-old Minsker already stood trial for drunk driving. It ended with a Br 4 million fine then.