2016 in Belarus

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)