The international company Emporis, which collects data on real estate objects around the world, has presented a ranking of cities with the most impressive skyline. When compiling a rating of megalopolises with the most exciting urban horizons, the company's specialists took into account the number of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings in the city, the structure ...
With promises of marriage, repayment of debts with interest, and tearful assurances, the fraudster siphoned off impressive sums from her victims. The “femme fatale” enriched herself even while serving her sentence in a penal colony, having significantly succeeded in the epistolary genre. In the age of the Internet, a woman quite successfully acted the old fashioned way...
“Last year, we had 8,9 marriages registered per thousand people. This is one of the highest indicators in Europe,” said Marina Artemenko, Deputy Head of the Department of Population, Gender and Family Policy of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians...
In Minsk, a young man stole a Winnie-the-Pooh children's pet car worth about 15 million rubles from a shopping center. The theft of the toy got into the lens of the video camera. The video shows how a guy in a blue tracksuit, talking on a cell phone, walks up to the pet mobile. Having "saddled" the "bear", the suspect ...
The country, famed for its watches and chocolate, has been named the happiest state in the world, according to a new study. Switzerland tops the third annual World Happiness Index, compiled by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Iceland, Denmark, Norway follow Switzerland ...
The American film “Number 44,” about a Soviet intelligence officer investigating the murders of children, has been withdrawn from distribution in Belarus, said Vasily Koktysh, general director of the Belarusian company “Kinovideoprokat.” According to him, this happened due to the decision of the Russian distributor, the Central Partnership company, to ban the film from showing...
The decree of President Lukashenko “On the Prevention of Social Dependency,” popularly nicknamed the “decree on parasites,” encouraged Belarusian users of social networks to create specific groups and communities. The “Party of Parasites,” created, as commentators write, on Facebook, by Monday evening had gained 1700 likes and…
In the Belarusian Mogilev, traffic police officers chased a horse-drawn carriage because the driver violated the traffic rules: he started moving along the sidewalk a little earlier than the green light came on. The inspectors tried to stop the cart and bring the driver to justice, but they could not do this: he did not react to the demands of the police and drove around ...
The multimedia blog My Grandmother, the Regime and Me, in which women from six countries tell their journalistic grandchildren about their lives under dictatorship, has won the 2015 CNN Journalist Award, which will be presented in London on March 24. A Belarusian woman also took part in the project...
In Belarus, all anonymizers (services that provide Internet users with anonymous access to the network) that allow them to bypass restrictions and access sites banned in the country will be blocked. “The state inspection, when identifying Internet resources, means of ensuring anonymity (proxy servers, anonymous networks such as Tor and others), allowing...