News from Belarus
53,344 news articles from publishers in Belarus, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is charter97.org with 8,228 articles, 15.4% of the total, followed by news.by, vbrest.by. By language it splits into Russian (47,792), Belarusian (2,824), English (922) and 1 more. Daily volume averages about 614 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 762 on 2026-10-21.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=BY&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=BY&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Belarus articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=BY&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22T23:03 | Оставляют ежевику на месте малинника и теряют саженец к осени | www.belnovosti.by |
2026-10-22T23:00 | Создатель популярной игры покончил с собой во время стрима на Twitch | smartpress.by |
2026-10-22T23:00 | Технические работы у БЖД в ночь на 23 октября. Где купить билет, пока сайт недоступен | www.belnovosti.by |
2026-10-22T22:34 | Белорусам посоветовали брать отпуск в январе или мае, чтобы отдыхать дольше | www.belnovosti.by |
2026-10-22T22:05 | Кліфф Рычард заявіў, што вывучае рэггі для новай версіі песні «Гасподзь — мой пастыр» для каляд | radiounet.fm |
2026-10-22T21:59 | В Минске 23 октября станет прохладнее, временами будет дождь | minsknews.by |
2026-10-22T21:41 | Реализацию молодежных проектов и культурные связи обсудили представители делегаций регионов Бел | minsknews.by |
2026-10-22T21:34 | Олег Корзун — членам Белорусского добровольного пожарного общества: «Ваша работа важна и ценна» | minsknews.by |
Who publishes it
The 25 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
charter97.org | 8,228 | 15.4% | query |
news.by | 7,835 | 14.7% | query |
vbrest.by | 5,434 | 10.2% | query |
belta.by | 4,138 | 7.8% | query |
www.belnovosti.by | 4,118 | 7.7% | query |
minsknews.by | 2,972 | 5.6% | query |
ctv.by | 2,651 | 5.0% | query |
gomel1142.info | 1,742 | 3.3% | query |
newgrodno.by | 1,729 | 3.2% | query |
belsat.eu | 1,667 | 3.1% | query |
smartpress.by | 1,470 | 2.8% | query |
www.gs.by | 1,402 | 2.6% | query |
zelwa.by | 1,372 | 2.6% | query |
myfin.by | 1,364 | 2.6% | query |
autosalon.by | 1,095 | 2.1% | query |
www.ecopress.by | 1,006 | 1.9% | query |
www.budakosh.by | 908 | 1.7% | query |
vb.by | 888 | 1.7% | query |
mogilev.media | 854 | 1.6% | query |
realt.by | 502 | 0.9% | query |
radiounet.fm | 468 | 0.9% | query |
tuzin.fm | 428 | 0.8% | query |
betonmobile.by | 304 | 0.6% | query |
domovita.by | 262 | 0.5% | query |
esoligorsk.by | 250 | 0.5% | query |
Languages published in Belarus
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
Domain zones used by Belarus publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| by | Belarus | 39,920 | 74.8% |
| org | organisations | 8,228 | 15.4% |
| info | information | 1,742 | 3.3% |
| eu | European Union | 1,667 | 3.1% |
| fm | fm | 896 | 1.7% |
| media | media | 854 | 1.6% |
| com | global commercial | 37 | 0.1% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-10-22 | 540 | |
2026-10-21 | 762 | |
2026-10-20 | 661 | |
2026-10-19 | 458 | |
2026-10-18 | 566 | |
2026-10-17 | 551 | |
2026-10-16 | 685 | |
2026-10-15 | 687 | |
2026-10-14 | 805 | |
2026-10-13 | 889 | |
2026-10-12 | 915 | |
2026-10-11 | 722 | |
2026-10-10 | 667 | |
2026-10-09 | 925 |
Combine with other filters
# Belarus, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=BY&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Belarus, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=BY&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Belarus, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=BY&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"