The following lists events in the year 2017 in Belarus.

Incumbents

* President: Alexander Lukashenko * Prime Minister:

Andrei Kobyakov Andrei Vladimirovich Kobyakov ( be, Андрэй Уладзіміравіч Кабякоў, ''Andrei Uladzimiravich Kabyakow''; russian: Андрей Владимирович Кобяков; born 21 November 1960) is a Belarusian politician. He ...

Events

February

*19 February - 2000 people spread the march of the

2017 Belarusian protests The 2017 Belarusian protests were a series of demonstrations and street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko that broke out in late February 2017. Protesters mobilized against a tax levied against the unemployed in Belarus. Demonstrat ...

from the capital of Minsk to other cities in Belarus against a 2015 tax law.

March

*25 March - Despite bans on protests, hundreds protest in Minsk against a so-called "social parasites" tax on the unemployed.

Deaths

*28 January –

Alexander Tikhanovich Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich ( be, Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Ціхановіч; 13 July 1952 – 28 January 2017) was a Soviet and Belarusian pop singer, former member of the ensemble Verasy. He was named Honored Artist and P ...

, pop singer (b. 1952). *2 August – Alexander Gerasimenko, politician and diplomat (b. 1946)

References

{{Year in Europe, 2017 2010s in Belarus Years of the 21st century in Belarus Belarus Belarus