The Minsk Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ilya Aleksievich signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ilya Aleksievich commits to Minsk for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Minsk
Daouda Natama and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Minsk training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilya Aleksievich is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
Molodechno watching Pavel Tarletskiy
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Minsk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
Minsk come up short against Molodechno
Molodechno left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Alexandr Ksenofontov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Konstantin Kuchinskiy
Still no offer on the table, and Konstantin Kuchinskiy’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Minsk are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Vadzim Rios: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
In brief
- Transfer targets Minsk try to borrow Danila Godyaev
- Transfer targets Minsk ask about Daniil Veselov
- Looking ahead Vladislav Yatskevich goes back to face Smorgon