Events from the year 2016 in Belarus
Incumbents President: Alexander Lukashenko Prime Minister: Andrei Kobyakov
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
Deaths
29 March – Nil Hilevich, poet (b. 1931).
9 June – Stepan Bondarev, Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general (b. 1923) 26 June – Sergei Cortez, composer (b. 1935). 26 June – Rostislav Yankovsky, actor (b. 1930) 16 July – Oleg Syrokvashko, footballer (b. 1961) 20 July – Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian-born Russian journalist (b. 1971) October – Svetlana Penkina, actress (b. 1951) 17 December – Leanid Marakou, journalist and historian (b. 1958)
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