Belarus ICT Week: 19–25 October 2026

26/10/2026

Belarus's internet infrastructure faced a brief emergency restriction after critical PHP vulnerabilities were disclosed worldwide, while two major crypto exchanges, Bitget and MEXC, announced they would stop serving Belarusian users. Beltelecom announced tariff increases from November, and rabota.by data showed record competition for IT jobs in several regions. An investigation linked a stake in Belarus's Wildberries operator to the family of Dzmitry Lukashenka, and the e-government system continued to expand with new digitized services and planned self-service signature terminals.

IT Sector

The High-Technologies Park hosted a presentation of resident IT companies' digital solutions for Belarus's energy sector, bringing together Energy Ministry officials, energy enterprises and about fifteen HTP-resident firms. Deputy Energy Minister Kanstantin Anoshanka said the ministry was interested in cooperation to raise productivity and improve customer service, the HTP press service reported.
Sources: belta, 19 Oct

Bamboo Group, one of the oldest and largest Belarusian-founded IT companies registered in Estonia, reported a fall in sales and its worst loss in roughly a decade for the past fiscal year, close to its 2020 pandemic-era loss. Revenue fell by almost a quarter to just over 1.9 million euros, the lowest level since 2016, a Telegram business channel reported citing company filings.
Sources: businessejby, 23 Oct

Crypto & Fintech

Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitget and MEXC announced they would stop serving users in Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. Bitget added Belarus to its list of prohibited jurisdictions and required users to withdraw funds by 21 October, after which it began closing open positions and restricting account access; MEXC said it would end services for Belarusian and Russian users without specifying the regulatory reason, Euroradio and Zerkalo reported.
Sources: euroradio, 20 Oct · zerkalo, 20 Oct

Infrastructure

State enterprise BelGIE's quarterly ranking of mobile network quality for the third quarter of 2026 placed operator A1 first, with the company scoring highest in the overall rating and most individual categories. Evaluators noted improvements in voice call quality, data transmission, mobile internet availability, website loading speed and video streaming stability, according to BelGIE data cited on Telegram.
Sources: tg_belvestnik, 20 Oct

Beltelecom announced it would raise tariffs for home and business customers from 1 November, covering local and long-distance telephony, byfly internet access and service packages. The monthly fee for the "Domosed Start" package rises from 17.80 to 18.50 rubles and for "Domosed XXL" from 19.75 to 20.70 rubles, the company said on its website.
Sources: reform, 19 Oct

E-Government

More than 70 digitized services for vehicle owners are now available on the E-Pasluha portal, the National Centre for Electronic Services said. They include vehicle registration and deregistration, driving licence issuance and exchange, and a new service for transmitting data on vehicles that have passed technical inspection.
Sources: belta, 25 Oct

Belarus is developing self-service terminals that will let citizens and businesses obtain an electronic digital signature without visiting a registration point, the head of the National Centre for Electronic Services' certification authority, Uladzimir Basko, said. The project, which resembles an ATM, is in its final testing stage and targets individuals, entrepreneurs and company heads.
Sources: nashaniva, 21 Oct

E-Commerce & Online Business

An investigation by the Bureau outlet found that a 10% stake in the company operating Wildberries in Belarus, IMVBRB, is held by businessman Dzmitry Kurnasenka, whose business ties lead to the family of Dzmitry Lukashenka. Wildberries is used by more than 85% of surveyed Belarusians according to the trade ministry, and IMVBRB's 2025 revenue exceeded 9 billion Belarusian rubles, Euroradio reported.
Sources: euroradio, 20 Oct

Belarus is drafting a law to regulate online marketplaces, a deputy head of MART's trade department, Iryna Shpak, said on state television STV. She said the law was intended to protect consumers and small business and to give companies such as Wildberries an address for complaints, including in connection with drone attacks on its facilities.
Sources: belsat, 25 Oct

Media & Platforms

Webcom Group data presented in Belarus showed more than three million Belarusians use Telegram monthly, with 73% of them reading news there, and advertising investment in the platform's ad accounts up 300% since the start of the year. The country has more than 15,000 active channels, and 86% of the global Telegram audience is aged 18 to 54.
Sources: nashaniva, 22 Oct

Cybersecurity

Belarusian hosting provider hoster.by said a state agency ordered temporary restriction of external traffic to Belarusian websites overnight on 22 October after two critical PHP vulnerabilities, dubbed PHP2Shell and rated 9.2 out of 10, were disclosed by security researchers. Restrictions were lifted by 10:00 once hosting clients updated their PHP software, the provider said.
Sources: zerkalo, 22 Oct

Belarusian users reported a possible leak of passport data from insurer Belgosstrakh after personal accounts on its website became inaccessible. A Threads user said client data appeared available through a Telegram lookup service; Belgosstrakh had not confirmed a breach at the time of reporting, Zerkalo said.
Sources: zerkalo, 22 Oct

Policy & Regulation

Belarus's interior minister said information security had been elevated to a strategic national priority under September amendments to Presidential Directive No. 1, which for the first time names it a key state area alongside law enforcement, the ministry said at a briefing covered by pro-government Telegram channels.
Sources: tg_first_frontier, 23 Oct

Figures & Surveys

Rabota.by data cited by Belarusian media showed competition for IT jobs reaching record levels, with an average of 31.4 CVs per vacancy nationwide in September. Minsk region had 26.3 candidates per opening, while regional competition was far higher: Hrodna region reported up to 106 candidates per vacancy, a threefold increase over the year.
Sources: charter97, 19 Oct · zerkalo, 24 Oct

Themes

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