2016 in Belarus
Incumbents
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).[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)
gollark: ... hi?
gollark: Can you just write binaries onto it through the shell they give you? Small ones.
gollark: This is, well, homelab-*adjacent* at least, so I figure I might get some help here: how can I copy my ebooks from Amazon Kindle (the service, I lost my actual physical Kindle) to Calibre? I can access them in the "cloud reader" thing and the Android app (on a rooted device, and also one old enough that it seems okay with storing some app data on SD cards), but have no idea how to import the files stored on there.
gollark: The Gallery app often works okay?
gollark: Apparently Doge Linux exists: https://sourceforge.net/projects/doge-linux/
References
- "Nil Hilevich Passed Away". charter97.org. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- "Сomposer Sergey Cortes Died". Charter 97. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
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