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Events from the year 2016 in Belarus

• President: Alexander Lukashenko
• Prime Minister: Andrei Kobyakov

• 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

• 29 March – Nil Hilevich, poet (b. 1931).^[1]

• 9 June – Stepan Bondarev, Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general (b. 1923)
• 26 June – Sergei Cortez, composer (b. 1935).^[2]
• 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)