2025 in Belarus
Events of the year 2025 in Belarus.
Incumbents
- President – Alexander Lukashenko
- Prime Minister – Roman Golovchenko (until 10 March); Aleksandr Turchin (since 10 March)
Events
Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis
January
- 26 January – 2025 Belarusian presidential election: President Alexander Lukashenko is reelected for a seventh term with 87.6% of the vote.
February
- 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.
March
- 10 March – President Lukashenko appoints Aleksandr Turchin as prime minister.
- 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.
- 25 March – President Lukashenko is inaugurated for a seventh term in office.
- 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.
April
- 30 April – Youras Ziankovich, a dual US-Belarusian national imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow and assassinate President Lukashenko, is released.
Holidays
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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)