title: 2017 in Belarus
text: # 2017 in Belarus
  
  The following lists events in the year 2017 in Belarus.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Alexander Lukashenko
  * Prime Minister: Andrei Kobyakov
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * 19 February - 2000 people spread the march of the 2017 Belarusian protests 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, pop singer (b. 1952).
  * 2 August – Alexander Gerasimenko, politician and diplomat (b. 1946)
  