Events from the year 2016 in

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Andrei Kobyakov Andrei Vladimirovich Kobyakov (born 21 November 1960) is a Belarusian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Belarus between 2014 and 2018, appointed by president Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transl ...

Events

*15 January – the geostationary telecommunications satellite Belintersat-1 was launched for the Belarusian government's company Belintersat. *5-21 August – Belarus at the 2016 Summer Olympics: 124 competitors in 18 sports. *11 September –

2016 Belarusian parliamentary election Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number) *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen ...

Deaths

*29 March –

Nil Hilevich Nil Symonavich Hilevich (; ; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, a professor in the Belarusian State University, the author of more than 80 books of poetry, publications, and translations, and one of the founders of the F ...

, poet (b. 1931). *9 June –

Stepan Bondarev Stepan Markovich Bondarev (; 9 April 1923 9 June 2016) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general. He fought in World War II as a tank company commander. Postwar, he was commander of the 29th Army and deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military D ...

, Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general (b. 1923) *26 June –

Sergei Cortez Sergei Cortez (, ; 18 February 1935 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian composer. (biography on 75th birthday) Cortez was born in San Antonio, Chile. He lived for most of his early life in Argentina, and emigrated with his parents to Minsk in the ...

, composer (b. 1935). *26 June –

Rostislav Yankovsky Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky (; ; ; 5 February 1930 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian actor. He was born in Odesa on 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. Since 1957, he worked in the Minsk Drama The ...

, actor (b. 1930) *16 July –

Oleg Syrokvashko Oleg Syrokvashko (; ; 3 August 1961 – 16 July 2016) was a Belarusian professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), ...

, footballer (b. 1961) *20 July –

Pavel Sheremet Pavel Grigorievich Sheremet (, , 28 November 1971 – 20 July 2016) was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was imprisoned by the government of Belarus in 1997, sparking an international incident between Belarus and Russia. ' ...

, Belarusian-born Russian journalist (b. 1971) *October –

Svetlana Penkina Svetlana Alexandrovna Mulyavina-Penkina (; Belarusian language, Belarusian: Святлана Аляксандраўна Пенкіна; 6 June 1951 – October 2016) was a Soviet actress. Career Svetlana Penkina graduated from the Minsk Theater ...

, actress (b. 1951) *17 December –

Leanid Marakou Leanid Marakou (; ; April 15, 1958 in Minsk – December 17, 2016) was a Belarusian journalist, writer. Biography Marakou ( Belarusian: Леанід Маракоў, Russian: Леонид Моряков, pseudonyms: Vladimir Moryakov, Anatole ...

, journalist and historian (b. 1958)

References

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