title: 2021 in Belarus
text: # 2021 in Belarus
  
  Events in the year 2021 in Belarus.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Alexander Lukashenko
  * Prime Minister: Roman Golovchenko
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus
  
  * 11 March - Belarus reports their first case of the Lineage B.1.1.7 of SARS-CoV-2, which originated in the United Kingdom.
  * 23 May - Ryanair Flight 4978
  
  ### Scheduled events
  
  * 11 to 12 February - Allbelarusian People's Assembly
  * 21 May to 6 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 IIHF World Championship, not to be co-hosted any more by Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia.
  * 7 to 13 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, to be moved from Minsk.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 12 January – Philaret, Orthodox prelate (born 1935).
  * June – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, agricultural worker and politician (b. 1928).
  