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Bank and Public Holidays for Belarus

Belarus bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2013, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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01 Dec 2012 Belarus 2013 Public Holidays Announced (The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The government of Belarus has released the list of official public holidays in Belarus for the upcoming calendar year 2013. • 03 Jun 2012 Belarus Public Holiday July 2 (Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has issued a decree declaring Monday, July 2, 2012, as a one-off non-working bridge public holiday in Belarus on account of the upcoming Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus annual non-working public holiday on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. • 09 Apr 2012 Belarus Public Holiday April 23 (Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has issued a decree declaring Monday, April 23, 2012, as another one-off non-working bridge public holiday in Belarus on account of the upcoming Radunitsa non-working public holiday on April 24, 2012. • 01 Mar 2012 Belarus Public Holiday March 9 (Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has issued a decree declaring Friday, March 9, 2012, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Belarus. • 29 Dec 2011 Belarus 2012 Public Holidays Announced (Belarusbank-Minsk) The government of Belarus has released the list of official public holidays in Belarus for the calendar year 2012. • 01 Mar 2011 Belarus Declares March 7 and May 2nd Public Holidays (Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus has issued a resolution declaring Monday, March 7, and Monday, May 2, 2011, as a one-off, non-working public holidays in Belarus. • 27 Jan 2011 Belarus 2011 Public Holidays Announced (Belarusbank-Minsk) The government of Belarus has released the list of official public holidays in Belarus for the calendar year 2011. • 30 Apr 2010 Belarus Declares Exceptional May 10 Public Holiday (Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus-Minsk) The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus has issued a resolution declaring Monday, May 10, 2010, as a one-off, day in lieu, non-working public holiday in Belarus, to compensate the fact that this year's, May 9th, 65th anniversary of the Great Victory over fascism falls on a Sunday. • 29 Dec 2009 Belarus 2010 Public Holidays Announced (Belarusbank-Minsk) The government of Belarus has released the list of official public holidays in Belarus for the calendar year 2010. • 19 Dec 2008 Belarus 2009 Public Holidays Announced (Belarusbank-Minsk) The government of Belarus has released the list of official public holidays in Belarus for the calendar year 2009. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Belarus public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Public holidays in Belarus are regulated by paragraph 18 of article 84 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus. The actual list of official public holidays in Belarus is specified in Article 3 of the Presidential Decree of March 26, 1998 N 157, Celebrations In The Republic Of Belarus, as amended most recently by the 1998 Assembly decrees, orders and decrees of the President of the Government of the Republic of Belarus, 1999, N 3, st.56 (our thanks to Heikki Oja, of the Helsinki University Almanac Office for his translation of the official Russian text). • Independence Day: The third of July is the anniversary the 1944 liberation of Minsk in World War II. Before a November 1996 referendum, this date was officially observed as the Day of the Liberation of Belarus from the German Invaders, and Independence Day was celebrated on July 27. But then, in 1990 Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union, and a 1996 referendum was passed bringing forward the Independence Day public holiday to July 3. • Constitution Day (March 15) was only observed officially in 1994 and 1995, and is now a non-event. • October Revolution Day (November 7) occurs in the month of November of the Gregorian calendar, which begins roughly in the middle of the month of October of the Orthodox calendar (hence the reference to October in this Public Holiday's name). • Bridge Holidays are beginning to be observed but no official sources have been found to confirm this yet. • Belarus International Codes BY and BLR (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .by (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Belarus information and news: National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (Belarus central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Belarus maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Belarus), and Wikipedia (includes Belarus commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Belarus, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Belarus, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Belarus. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Belarus, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Belarus, before planning any trip to Belarus. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.