Maria from Romania won the Grand Prix of the 7th international junior song contest Vitebsk 2009. Apart from a special prize and diploma, the winner gets $5,000.

Pope Benedict XVI may soon meet with Patriarch of Moscow and the whole Russia Kirill, Alexander Lukashenka said in Rome on Tuesday, summing up his visit to Vatican and Italy.

A Russian Language Centre will be created in a Changde university (China) with the help of teachers from Belarusian State University.