Tag: Belarus
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War: Russia, Belarus form military alliance
Following concerns that Minsk the Capital of Belarus is being dragged into the Ukraine conflict to fight alongside Moscow, the two neighbouring countries started a joint air force According to Minsk’s defence ministry “joint tactical flight drills of aviation units” from Belarus and Russia had started.
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UKRAINE WAR: Russian troops withdraw from northern Ukraine into Belarus, Russia
The British Ministry of Defence confirmed this on Friday
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Ukraine invasion: Olympic medalist who fled Belarus forced into exile again
After bolting to Ukraine to escape political persecution in her native Belarus, Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia never thought she would again be forced to flee. She was forced this time to flee to save her family from the Russian attack.
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FIFA sanctions Belarus, orders its clubsides and national teams to play home games on neutral ground
For being a Russia ally the European country of Belarus has been hit with a sanction by FIFA. On Thursday, UEFA in a statement stated that Belarussian clubs and national teams competing on the continent would play their home games on neutral grounds following the Russia -Ukraine crisis. Authoritarian Belarus and Russia are closely linked…
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Ukraine ceasefire talks begin
Talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials began on the Belarusian border on Monday, Moscow said, as Russia’s diplomatic and economic isolation deepens four days after invading Ukraine.
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20-Year-Old Nigerian footballer drowns in Belarus
Nigerian footballer Kelvin Odenigbo has been found dead after the 20-year-old drowned in a lake in Belarus. His Belarusian club FC Vitebsk confirmed the sad incident, explaining that he drowned in Lake Beloye. “The football club “Vitebsk” reports that on June 5, 2021, on the lake “Beloye”, in the area of the tourist base “Verasy”,…
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European country continues league amid coronavirus
Football is suspended in the UK and across most of world because of the coronavirus pandemic – but the game rolls on in Belarus. The Belarusian Premier League rarely gets a mention in normal circumstances yet it is attracting attention from foreign fans as one of the few places around the globe – and the…
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45 ex-Niger Delta militants graduate from two universities in Belarus
…as 3 clinch first class No fewer than 45 student delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, in the course of the week, graduated from two universities in Belarus. Three of them clinched first class honors in Information Technology from the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. While a total of 29 majored in various…