16 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}Maxline Vitebsk won 1–0 over FK Slutsk on Sun
Predicted lineups are available for the match a few days in advance while the actual lineup will be available about an hour ahead of the match
This is the first time the teams are playing against each other
Have scored 5 goals in their last 2 matches
16 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT?Maxline Vitebsk won 1–0 over FK Slutsk on Sun
16 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 1 goals in their last 5 matches
FK Slutsk is playing home against Maxline Vitebsk at City Stadium
11 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}Neman Grodno won 2–1 over FK Slutsk on Fri
The current head to head record for the teams are Neman Grodno 11 win(s)
Have scored 3 goals in their last 5 matches
11 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT?Neman Grodno won 2–1 over FK Slutsk on Fri
11 Apr 2025 17:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 7 goals in their last 5 matches
Neman Grodno is playing home against FK Slutsk at Neman Stadium on Fri
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Belarus' leading food industry companies will present their products at the Gulfood exhibition in Dubai, BelTA learned from the Belinterexpo exhibition enterprise at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Share on FacebookShare on VKShare on TwitterThe Taste of Nature exposition of Belarusian manufacturers will be on display at Gulfood on 13-17 February
Belarus' leading food industry companies will exhibit meat and dairy products as well as new products
The dairy industry will be represented by Bellakt
The meat industry will be represented by Veles-Meat
Slonim Meat Processing Plant and Agrocombinat Dzerzhinsky
The new products to be featured at the expo will include Bellakt Opti Active baby food
the Bela Bovino soft cheeses and curd creams from Molochny Mir
cheese with truffle and other cheeses from Slutsk Cheese-Making Plant
soft cheese similar to Italian ricotta by Primemilk and many more
The organizer of the Belarusian exposition is the Belinterexpo exhibition enterprise at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The event is supported by the Agriculture and Food Ministry of Belarus
the Embassy of Belarus in the United Arab Emirates
and the UAE chambers of commerce and industry
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On April 26, 2011 – the 25th anniversary of the world’s largest nuclear disaster at Chernobyl – I joined a delegation of Belarusians and Americans on the tarmac at Minsk-2 International Airport to welcome the arrival of a cargo plane bearing $6.2 million in pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for the survivors of Chernobyl. I was struck with the sense that there was no place on earth that I would rather have been at that moment.
I was there as communications intern for CitiHope International (CHI), a humanitarian relief organization. Other attendees included representatives from CitiHope, Nadezhda Express (our Belarusian partner), U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus Department of Humanitarian Activity, and Counterpart International.
Olga Aleinikova, head doctor at Republican Children’s Onco-Hematology Center, spoke at the event. CitiHope has been assisting her efforts since 1990 when she asked for help in obtaining needed medical supplies. She reports that survival rates for her patients have risen from 5% to 74%. The medicines delivered at this time were sent to this hospital as well as to the national organ transplant center and 10 district hospitals, providing treatment for nearly 7,000 patients.
The disastrous public health effects of Chernobyl are ongoing in Belarus, where entire communities absorbed over 70% of the nuclear fallout and 20% of the land remains contaminated.
Over the past 20 years, CitiHope has assisted the Belarusian Ministry of Health with more than $245 million worth of medicines and supplies for the nation’s hospitals.
I first traveled to Belarus in 2005 on a volunteer youth mission with CitiHope, and returned to the country in 2009 to serve a month-long field internship in Minsk with CHI and Nadezhda Express. I made many dear friends, especially my beloved host family, Dr. Mikhail Sobol, CHI Belarus country director, and his wife, Luidmila.
Hannah Smock ’10 (L-R), Luidmila Sobol (host mother), and Natasha Povarich, close friend of the Sobols at Povarich’s dacha.
My experiences in Belarus strongly influenced my studies at Lafayette, and my experiences at Lafayette helped prepare me for my work with CitiHope. My desire to return to Belarus prompted me to study the Russian language, and my decision to study Russian led me to become an international affairs/Russian and East European studies double major, pursuing a deeper understanding of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the region.
Studying Russian prepared me to speak the language in both home-stay and business settings during my internship, funded by the College’s Office of Career Services. Volunteering at a home for abandoned and disabled children led me to write an honors thesis on children in the state-run residential care system in post-Soviet Russia, under the guidance of Professor Joshua Sanborn.
When a yearlong paid internship position in CHI’s program development office in Washington, D.C. became available after I graduated, I jumped at the chance and was hired. I help find new program opportunities for CitiHope in Belarus, handle communications, and provide administrative support to my colleagues in other regions of the world.
CitiHope, founded in 1985, is involved in many other parts of the world including sending supplies to hospitals in several African nations, conducting nutrition programs in Malawi and Ethiopia, running a health and nutrition program in the Dominican Republic, and improving access to health services for those displaced by ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan. Paul Moore II, vice president/COO and son of founder Rev. Paul Moore Sr., spoke at Lafayette during ISA Extravaganza 2011.
While I don’t get to speak Russian as often as I would like, I relish every chance to participate in staff calls with Russian-speaking colleagues in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. If I am able to realize my goal of continuing to work alongside the Belarusian people to help create a healthier future for the survivors of Chernobyl, then I hope to be speaking Russian and returning to Belarus much more in the years to come.
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no throngs of crowds sipping beers at the cricket world cup
no flood lights and freshly cut grass for premier league matches
While there's promise of the NRL's return
the majority of professional sport all across the globe has been cancelled
The tiny Eastern European nation is dealing with tens of thousands of coronavirus cases
but restrictions in the country are minimal
making it the only European nation with an active soccer league
It's a fact that curiously came the way of Adelaide man Shane Robinson
"Basically at the beginning [of the pandemic] I got stood down without pay
So me and a few boys were looking for anything to watch
"One of the boys was on a betting website and came across this Belarusian premier league that was still going
We just chose the first team that was playing that night
and it's kind of taken up from there."
Slutsk is a tiny city in Belarus, about 100km south of Minsk. It's got about the same population as Wagga Wagga, and yet within days of Shane's mates discovering the town's soccer team and creating a Facebook group in its honour
more than 1000 members around the world were following along
The group now creates memes and tributes about their favourite team in Belarus
posts blow-by-blow analyses of their matches
and members show off their homemade FK Slutsk merch
We started it as a small group to have a few laughs
find a few ways to watch the games."
It didn't take long for a fan to create a team song
with the rousing chorus of 'We love our Slutsk
we're the greatest team in Belarus"
Hack did, of course, ask Shane to sing some of the song on national radio when he spoke with us yesterday.
In the five weeks since the Facebook group has been up, more than 6000 members have joined in, and their devotion to a team on the other side of the world has grown stronger by the day.
When someone introduced themselves to the group, saying they were born in Slutsk, commenters called the person a "hero" and told them they had "truly won the lottery in life."
Someone else in the group comments, "I'm never watching A league again unless Slutsk join," while another says, "Slutsk isn't just for lockdown, Slutsk is for life."
Shane says that apart from creating an extremely niche, extremely cult following for a tiny team in Belarus - leading the club to hoist Australian flags in their stadium by way of thanks - new fans of FK Slutsk have rallied together to save the club from financial trouble.
"We found out once we created the group that the club was in a bit of financial trouble. So we started a gofundme page and have raised almost $5000 on that.
"For a group of 10 or 15 blokes from South Australia, who thought it might be fun to follow a small team in Belarus, to be really making a difference in saving their club - it's an awesome feeling."
25 Apr 2025 15:45:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}BATE Borisov won 2–0 over FK Slutsk on Fri
The current head to head record for the teams are BATE Borisov 19 win(s)
Have scored 4 goals in their last 5 matches
25 Apr 2025 15:45:00 GMT?BATE Borisov won 2–0 over FK Slutsk on Fri
25 Apr 2025 15:45:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 2 goals in their last 5 matches
BATE Borisov is playing home against FK Slutsk at Borisov Arena on Fri
29 Mar 2025 13:00:00 GMT?.css-1txiau5-AnswerContainer{color:var(--GlobalColorScheme-Text-secondaryText2);}FK Slutsk won 2–0 over FC Smorgon on Sat
The current head to head record for the teams are FK Slutsk 1 win(s)
Have scored 5 goals in their last 5 matches
29 Mar 2025 13:00:00 GMT?FK Slutsk won 2–0 over FC Smorgon on Sat
29 Mar 2025 13:00:00 GMT.InsightsHave scored 1 goals in their last 5 matches
FK Slutsk is playing home against FC Smorgon at City Stadium
Karen and Ciara Rafferty off to work in an orphanage in Grozova
Belarus and then to a baby orphanage in Slutsk
Karen and Ciara Rafferty from Kilcurry are to travel to Belarus next month to help improve the quality of life of the children of that area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident
It is the second successive year that the 25-year-old sisters have gone out with a group from Skerries to try and make life more pleasant for orphans in the region
Both sisters have to fund the cost of their travel and week’s stay
and are looking for local people to donate kitchen equipment
with the likes of ordinary spoons and ladles which just could be not to be found in the orphanage where they worked in last year
The sisters also are seeking clothes and nappies for another orphanage
between which they worked last year and where there are younger orphans
Karen explained that engaging in such voluntary work “was something I always said I’d like to take time out and and perhaps make a difference to someone else’s life.”
She explained that her boy friend Sean Gogarty who is also going on the trip was instrumental in her becoming involved
She learned through him that Gareth McAllister who started the venture from his involvement with Chernobyl Aid was looking for volunteers
Sean works alongside Gareth in the Arch chemical factory in Skerries
Some 24 volunteers are due to make the trip that will leave Ireland on May 8th and tackle the installation of a new heating system in the orphanage that caters for children aged between 4 and 16
Last year the group devoted time to fire and safety in the orphanage
while the two sisters with their professional knowledge and experience provided basic guidelines in health and safety procedures in the kitchen
Karen is a member of the staff at McGeogh’s lounge in Roden Place
while Ciara has switched jobs and is attached to the Ballymascanlon Hotel leisure Centre
They will review how the procedures are being carried out in the orphanage
as well as helping out in the second orphanage which looks after newly born babies to infants up to three year old
but despite this Karen says “I can’t wait to go back for it was a great experience to try and help people who have so little”
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