br23 blog - minsk, belarus

Is it just me or geographical mix-ups with Belarus are now happening more and more often? New Dehli TV (India) reports from Paris:
“Bhupathi and Xavier Malisse of Belarus registered an easy 6-2, 6-2 victory over Gilles Muller of Luxemburg and Christophe Rochus of Belarus to move into the second round of the clay court event.” […]

As you can see, Eurosport editors put up the national white-red-white flag (!) next to the name of the Belarusan tennis player Anastassia Yakimova who was playing against Belgian star Henin-Hardenne today on the main court of Roland Garros. The white-red-white flag was banned by Alexander Lukashenka in 1996. Since then he forbid using it […]

It’s a historical victory over Switzerland. For the first time since Belarus gained independence our national ice hockey team has made it to the quarter finals of the world championship. We are playing Finland (Suomi) after tomorrow. What do we know about Finland, except Nokia? We know that they literally call us “White Russia” with […]

• Belarus bids bye-bye to Kazakhstan
“If Belarus keeps playing this well, they sure won’t take other teams by surprise anymore. The men from Minsk have made it to the Qualifying Round for the second straight year. With a 7-1 rout of Kazakhstan Wednesday night at Riga Arena, Belarus wrapped up the second seed in Group […]

The next week promises to be very busy and hectic (but hopefully, fun). Instead of sorting out papers and preparing some documents I’m watching Olympics on Eurosport, glancing at the live tennis scores on DavisCup.com and blocking all thoughts about the upcoming week.
1) In Davis Cup 1/8 finals, Belarus tennis team impressed everybody in Minsk […]

A Belarusian girl bathes in icy water at a lake in Minsk, Belarus (January 19, 2006). (© all photos by Reuters/Vasil Fedasenka.)

A woman holds her child as they make their way to get out off the ice cold water of a lake on the eve of Russian Orthodox Epiphany in Minsk, Belarus, late Wednesday, Jan. […]

Being an avid tennis fan I’m happy that tennis season finally kicked off, so every night I watch live reports from “down under.” The best match so far was Roger Federer’s battle with Tommy Haas, today, a real pleasure to watch. And before that Federer easily won against Belarus’ Max Mirnyi:
• Regal Roger Rolls Past […]

For all the NHL and hockey fans in my audience:
The biggest success of Belarus ice hockey national team came in Salt Lake City at the Olympic Games (2002) when they beat Sweden 4:3 in quater final and reached semis. The game was pretty tough, and the score was tied at 3:3 just two and a […]

So, the tennis season is basically over. Max Mirnyi of Belarus had an average and somewhat boring year, finishing 34th in the world and making $1.1 million dollars (a total of $6.2 million), the only highlight of the year being his doubles grand slam victory at the French Open. And our starlet Victoria Azarenka was […]

Species: fresh-water catfish (also known as silurus or wels catfish)
Length: 212 cm
Weight: 60 kg.
The lucky fisherman is Eduard Žukoŭski, a dentist from Minsk.