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Spectators are in for a grandiose sports spectacle with the use of modern technologies and artistic solutions: LED screens, thousands of pieces of lighting equipment, massive choreographic numbers and musical compositions that charge athletes for victory.

More than 1200 people will take part in the ceremony: dancers, volunteers, young performers and already famous artists, famous athletes.

Hoisting the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus will be entrusted to Belarusian athletes – two-time Olympic champion in rowing Ekaterina Karsten, Olympic champion in trampolining Ivan Litvinovich and Olympic champion in canoeing Alexander Maseykov. The flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States will be hoisted by Olympic champions in athletics Yanina Provalinskaya-Korolchik and Yulia Nesterenko and Olympic champion in handball Andrey Barbashinsky.

The start of the ceremony is at 16:30.