In Belarus, do norms for a work event include informal bar drinks and snacks in the evening? [closed]

As far as my experience goes, you can expect to see Happy Hour-style discounts on workdays during business time (e.g. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 3PM to 6PM there would be different kinds of Happy Hour discounts on various kinds of drinks).

The rationale here, venues are completely empty after lunches has ended but before evening began. So they hope to capture at least some stray traffic.

This is rarely seen in the evenings because that's the time you can charge the full price, go into black. Still there can be some seasonal/weekday offerings on a narrow set of inventory.

This will apply to the part of Eastern Europe that's ex-USSR.

In Poland, it's quite populart in student cities, and it's targeted mainly for students. Normally beer is discounted, and it's typically from late afternoon until evening (for example 16-19), so that it doesn't match well people that work (and who can afford full prices) but matches well students (who have much more tight budget).

With regards to a business practice.

I don't think it is commonplace that an event will end with food and drinks in the office.

• If it is an event with a lot of loosely-related guests (such as a product announcement) you will expect to have a break with food and non-alcoholic drinks. You will not expect food and drinks after the event, on assumption that guests have their own things to do.
• If it is an event with two parties (such as contract negotiation), I expect that members of hosting party will invite members of guest party to a local bar they know for an informal part of the meeting (getting to know each other better over drinks).

This, again, mostly applies to ex-USSR part of Eastern Europe.