12 February – Three people detained in Belarusian prisons, including an American national and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Andrey Kuznechyk, are released from custody and sent to Lithuania following diplomatic intervention by the US.[2]
March
10 March – President Lukashenko appoints Aleksandr Turchin as prime minister.[3]
17 March – A Japanese resident of Gomel is convicted and sentenced by the Minsk City Court to seven years' imprisonment for spying for Japanese intelligence.[4]
25 March – President Lukashenko is inaugurated for a seventh term in office.[5]
31 March – An American national is arrested for illegally entering Belarus after being discovered inside an empty train car that had arrived in Maladzyechna from Lithuania.[6]
April
30 April – Youras Ziankovich, a dual US-Belarusian national imprisoned for allegedly plotting to overthrow and assassinate President Lukashenko, is released.[7]
May
7 May – President Lukashenko issues pardons to 42 imprisoned opposition activists.[8]
19 May – Lithuania files a case at the International Court of Justice against Belarus accusing it of organising the trafficking of migrants into its territory.[9]
June
21 June – Opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky and 13 other political prisoners are released from prison and deported to Lithuania following a pardon as a result of negotiations with Trump's envoy in Minsk.[10]
July
23 July – Russian president Vladimir Putin signs a law allowing Belarusian citizens living as permanently residents in Russia to vote in local elections and run for local office.[11]
25 July – Journalist Danil Palianski is convicted and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on charges of treason and revealing state secrets.[12]
September
3 September – Andrei Podnebenny, a Russian political prisoner sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment by a Belarusian court in 2022 on charges including extremism, arson and vandalism, dies in custody at a jail in Mogilev.[13]
4 September – A Polish Carmelite monk is arrested in Lyepyel on charges of spying on military drills involving Russia.[14]
8 September – The Czech Security Information Service announces the dismantling of an espionage network operating across several European countries and run by the Belarusian KGB following a joint operation by the Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary, prompting the expulsion of a Belarusian diplomat in Prague.[15]
11 September – The United States lifts sanctions against the Belarusian flag carrier Belavia following the release of 52 political prisoners by the Belarusian government. The prisoners were deported to Lithuania; opposition leader Mikola Statkevich refused to be deported, and soon was returned to prison.[16]
12-16 September – Zapad 2025, a joint Russian-Belarusian military excercise. In response to it, Poland completely closed the Polish-Belarusian border.
16 September – Lukashenko issues pardons to 25 people convicted on charges of extremism.[17]
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