Belarus ICT Week: 2–8 November 2026

09/11/2026

Minsk City Technopark marked its 15th anniversary while Belarusian IT workers described shrinking pay amid the global tech downturn. State and independent outlets reported new steps in AI-assisted medical diagnostics, crypto-bank regulation and a US sanctions action against an exchange that operated in Belarus. Telecom operators adjusted tariffs and coverage commitments, and Belarusian-linked hacking groups were reported active against targets in Ukraine and Russia.

IT Sector

Minsk City Technopark marked its 15th anniversary. Director Uladzimir Davidovich said the park now has 85 resident companies and more than 250,000 square meters of space, BelTA reported via Zviazda.
Sources: zviazda, 5 Nov

Zerkalo reported that Belarusian IT specialists described shrinking salaries and fewer job offers amid the global tech downturn, citing data showing US tech firms cut 154,445 jobs in 2025, 15% more than in 2024, with planned hiring down 34% and pay in many IT fields down 7 to 10%. Interviewed specialists said conditions now resemble the 2020-2022 slowdown rather than the earlier boom.
Sources: zerkalo, 5 Nov

Artificial Intelligence

Minsk city authorities said artificial intelligence software, piloted since mid-2026, is used in municipal clinics to automatically analyze fluorography scans for lung disease, cutting review time per image to about 60 seconds and flagging anomalies for doctors. Officials described the system as an assistant, with doctors retaining the final diagnosis, according to the Minsk city executive committee, cited by Nasha Niva and Belvestnik.
Sources: nashaniva, 5 Nov · tg_belvestnik, 7 Nov

Uladzimir Pertsou, first deputy head of the Belarusian presidential administration, told a roundtable at the World Internet Conference summit in Minsk that no single country can resolve AI safety, accountability and ethics problems alone, calling for international cooperation on human-centered AI development, BelTA reported.
Sources: belta, 3 Nov

Crypto & Fintech

National Bank chairman Raman Halouchanka said the legal framework for crypto-banks in Belarus is practically complete, alongside a new law regulating leasing activity and legal conditions for secondary leasing and microloans. He said new payment instruments, including the KROK service and the digital Belarusian ruble, are also being developed, according to the National Bank's press service.
Sources: pressnbrb, 4 Nov

The US Treasury's FinCEN cut cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global off from the US financial system over sanctions evasion, saying at least 16 billion dollars in transactions linked to sanctions evasion and cybercrime passed through the platform between May 2021 and May 2026, including 232 million dollars tied to Russian sanctions evasion. Charter97 noted the exchange had also operated in Belarus.
Sources: charter97, 7 Nov

Infrastructure

beCloud deputy general director Yuliya Haurylovich said Gomel has had 5G coverage since early 2026, with peak mobile data speeds reaching 1.5 gigabits per second in some locations, placing the regional center among the top two Belarusian cities for 5G rollout, according to gp.by.
Sources: gp, 5 Nov

State telecom operator Beltelecom cancelled a tariff increase for home internet byfly and Yasna packages that had been announced to take effect from 1 November, saying further changes would be announced in advance, according to the company's statement cited by Euroradio and PrimePress.
Sources: euroradio, 2 Nov · primepress, 2 Nov

Belarus issued its first-ever fine to a mobile operator for poor service quality, deputy communications minister Pavel Tkach said. The unnamed operator was fined 100 base units, or 4,500 rubles, for failing to meet coverage and speed requirements along class M motorways, SmartPress reported.
Sources: smartpress, 3 Nov

E-Government

At a 4 November briefing in Minsk, the National Center for Electronic Services said kindergarten registration has been fully digitized since January 2026, with about 18,000 parents using it, and that applications via the One Stop Shop system grew more than fivefold since 2023 to over 2 million by 1 November. The Justice Ministry said extraterritorial applications rose 61% in 2026 to about 14,000.
Sources: sb, 4 Nov · pozirk, 4 Nov · pozirk, 4 Nov

E-Commerce & Online Business

Reform.news reported that Belarusian sellers on Wildberries received compensation offers for goods destroyed in a July fire at the marketplace's warehouse in Krasnodar, with payouts offered under non-disclosure agreements. Sellers' reactions to the amounts offered varied, with some describing the sums as unsatisfactory, according to sellers cited by the outlet.
Sources: reform, 4 Nov

Cybersecurity

Charter97, citing Dark Reading, reported that FrostyNeighbor, a hacking group linked to Belarusian authorities, attacked a transport-sector manufacturing company in Ukraine in late May, described as the first documented cyberattack attributed to a Belarus-linked group of this kind. Researchers said the group's methods and targets increasingly match Russian intelligence priorities.
Sources: belnewsby, 2 Nov

Belarusian hacktivist group Cyberpartisans BY and pro-Ukrainian group Silent Crow said they hacked Russia's federal statistics service Rosstat on 1 November, claiming to have extracted 23 terabytes of data including records on Russian military losses in the war against Ukraine. Radio Svaboda, citing Russian outlet Verstka, said parts of Rosstat's published Excel statistics remained inaccessible after the breach.
Sources: svaboda, 6 Nov

Technology & R&D

Belarusian State Technological University rector Siarhei Kasperovich said development of unmanned systems is a question of the country's technological sovereignty, opening the third international forum on unmanned aerial vehicles, BPLA-2026, in Minsk on 3 November. The forum ran through 5 November with sessions, a startup competition and drone-piloting contests, sb.by reported.
Sources: sb, 3 Nov · minprom_by, 2 Nov

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