2025 in Belarus

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See also:	History of Belarus List of years in Belarus

Events of the year 2025 in Belarus.

• President – Alexander Lukashenko
• Prime Minister – Roman Golovchenko (until 10 March); Aleksandr Turchin (since 10 March)

Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis

• 26 January – 2025 Belarusian presidential election: President Alexander Lukashenko is reelected for a seventh term with 87.6% of the vote.^[1]

• 12 February – Three people detained in Belarusian prisons, including an American national and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Andrey Kuznechyk, are released from custody and sent to Lithuania following diplomatic intervention by the US.^[2]

• 10 March – President Lukashenko appoints Aleksandr Turchin as prime minister.^[3]
• 17 March – A Japanese resident of Gomel is convicted and sentenced by the Minsk City Court to seven years' imprisonment for spying for Japanese intelligence.^[4]
• 25 March – President Lukashenko is inaugurated for a seventh term in office.^[5]
• 31 March – An American national is arrested for illegally entering Belarus after being discovered inside an empty train car that had arrived in Maladzyechna from Lithuania.^[6]

• 30 April – Youras Ziankovich, a dual US-Belarusian national imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow and assassinate President Lukashenko, is released.^[7]

• 7 May – President Lukashenko issues pardons to 42 imprisoned opposition activists.^[8]
• 19 May – Lithuania files a case at the International Court of Justice against Belarus accusing it of organising the trafficking of migrants into its territory.^[9]

• 21 June – Opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky is released from prison following a pardon.^[10]

• 23 July – Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law allowing Belarusian citizens living as permanently residents in Russia to vote in local elections and run for local office.^[11]

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• 1-2 January – New Year's Day
• 7 January – Christmas (Orthodox)
• 8 March – International Women's Day
• 29 April – Radonitsa Day
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 9 May – Victory Day
• 3 July – Independence Day
• 17 September – National Unity Day
• 7 November – October Revolution Day
• 25 December – Christmas (Catholic)

• 22 July – Edward Zaikouski, 72, archaeologist^[14]

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