41. Belarus History, Belarus Flag, Culture Of Belarus, Economy Of Belarus, History O belarus History, belarus Flag, culture of belarus, Economy of belarus, History of belarus, Flag of belarus, People of belarus, Information on belarus, http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/belarus1.html

To provide information on Belarus, Maps of World offers map of Belarus, details of its flag, its people, its economy, its culture and other such details Maps of World People of Belarus The people of Belarus were greatly influenced by the Soviet rule, the traces of which can be still found among them - like over 90 percent of the population speak only Russian, while the native Belarusian language remains confined to the rural areas alone. The Belarusians can be broadly divided into five ethnic groups- the people of original Belarusian descent, Russians, Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. Known for their strong family ties, the people of Belarus are also great sports lovers and excel in gymnastics and rowing. Other popular sports include Soccer, basketball, and ice hockey. Arts, Culture and Music of Belarus Belarus is famous for its opera and ballet, which always have the audience asking for more. There are theatres like the Opera and Ballet Theater in Minsk, which holds regular and well-attended performances. Belarus is also famous for musical comedy, which is held at the popular Theater of Musical Comedy Minsk. Besides this, their love for music has many orchestra groups performing every now and then. Drama also plays a central role in the culture of Belarus, with the leading drama theater being the Yanka Kupala Beslarusian State Academic Theater, located in Minsk. Other major theaters include the Gorky Russian Theater in Babruysk, and the Yakub Kolas Belarusian State Academic Theater in Minsk. Apart from all this, there is another theater at Minsk known as Vol'naya Stsena, which focuses on Belarusian drama and classics.

42. Belarusian Review :: Belarusian Culture Kitabs are books written in belarusian language using Arabic script. belarus Forum belarusian culture belarusians Abroad Contents Economy http://www.belreview.cz/rubriques/18.html

home archive search downloads ... contacts Belarusian Culture Kitabs, the Unique Phenomenon of the Belarusian Language in "Encyclopedia of the Belarusian language" Kitabs are books written in Belarusian language using Arabic script . They were written mostly in the 16th century by the Tatars who lived in Belarus, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, since 14-15th centuries and have gradually forgotten their native language. In order to preserve their religion they had to translate Koran and other sacred Islamic books into Belarusian language, but preserving the Arabic script. Rubriques Belarus' Forum Belarusian Culture Belarusians Abroad Contents ... Thoughts and Observations New Articles Warsaw in Diplomatic Fight With Minsk Over Ethnic Group 15th World Press Freedom Day "White Revolution" stirring in Belarus ( Washington Times, ... The Frozen Country, Or The War Of Generations - Belarusian-style Readers' Favorites Kitabs, the Unique Phenomenon of the Belarusian Language in "Encyclopedia of the Belarusian language" Vaclav Havel - in Defense of Jakub Kolas Humanities Lyceum The Exchange Rate Policy for Belarus Putin Doctrine: Immediate Threat to Belarus ... Andrej Ramazszeuski , All right reserved

43. Culture: Belarus : Selected Internet Resources (Portals To The World, Library Of Selected Internet Resources belarus. Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, indepth information about the nations and other http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/belarus/resources/by-culture.html

The Library of Congress Global Gateway Portals to the World Belarus Find in Portals Web Pages Global Gateway Pages All Library Web Pages Culture: Belarus Created and maintained by the European Division Collections and Services Directorate LonelyPlanet World GuideDestination BelarusCulture (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/europe/belarus/culture.htm) In English. Belarus Miscellany (http://www.belarus-misc.org) A comprehensive collection of online and print information about Belarus in English and Belarusian. Belarus Inside! (http://eka.8m.com/main%5Fen.html) Some thoughts about life in Belarus in English. Suggest a Link Selected European Internet Resources European Reading Room Library of Congress ... Belarus June 20, 2005 Ask a Librarian

44. Herald Of The BLA. 1996/2. Extracts From The History Of Book Printing In Belarus EXTRACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF BOOK PRINTING IN belarus. RUSSIAN In the XVIth Century the new stage of development of belarusian culture, associated with http://kolas.bas-net.by/engl/H96-2/e_prn.htm

The Herald of the BLA 1996 N 2 EXTRACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF BOOK PRINTING IN BELARUS RUSSIAN Natalya Beryezkina , PhD (History) natalyb@kolas.bas-net.by In the XVIth Century the new stage of development of Belarusian culture, associated with the formation of Belarusian nationality, and expansion of humanistic and enlightenment tendencies started. The development of various kinds of arts, especially architecture, annalistic art and literature became more active. In 1523 the Belarusian poet-humanist Mikola Gusovski (1470-1533) published in Krakov the poem "Song about aurochs", a patriotic piece of art of enormous artistic power, the genuine hymn of Belarusian land. Francisk Skorina, the first Belarusian book-printer, was an outstanding worker of Belarusian and Slav culture, an enlightener, humanist, scientist, writer, thinker, whose creative work had a great impact on the development of Belarusian language, literature, book-printing. F. Skorina was born in Polotsk, a large center of trade and crafts, and, also, a cultural center of Belarus at that time. No exact data on the date of his birth is known. In the year 1506 Skorina graduated from the Krakov University with a bachelor degree. In the autumn of 1512 Skorina arrived to the world-known Paduan University where he brilliantly passed the examination for the Doctor of Medicine degree.

45. Herald Of The BLA. 1996/1. CSL Of The NAS Of Belarus JAKUB KOLAS CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF belarus The Institute of belarusian culture was reorganized into the Academy of http://kolas.bas-net.by/engl/H96-1/e_csl.htm

The Herald of the BLA 1996 N 1 JAKUB KOLAS CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF BELARUS RUSSIAN Web-address: http://csl.bas-net.by HISTORY The library was established on February 16,1925 at the Instituteof the Belarusian Culture and possessed initially just several hundred books, provided as a gift by the scientists of the Institute. A portion of the initial stock included the books, assigned by the "Free Economic Society", by a poet Janka Kupala, and also the valuable collection of the famous historian M. V. Dovnar-Zapolsky. Since the beginning of 1926 the book exchange relations with the scientific institutions of the Ukraine, Latvia, Luthuania and West Belarus. Were established about 100 institutions of the USSR and 74 ones of Poland, Germany, France, the USA and other countries became the book exchanging partners of the library in 1928. The Institute of Belarusian Culture was reorganized into the Academy of Sciences, and the library with the stock of nearly 30,000 units became the Library of the Academy of Sciences. Before the World War II the private collections of Ya.P. Gromov ( one of the students of A. Einstein ), V.S. Dokturovsky (a botanists), B.I. Epimakh-Shipillo (Professor of Petersburg University, the initiator of the " Zaglyanye Sontsa i u Nashe Akontsa " ["The Sun will also Look into our Small Window"] Belarussian Publishing House) were given to the library stocks as well as a portion of book collection from the Nesvizh Estate of Radzivills.

46. Timeline: Belarus / Culture / Russian London RussianLondon.com Internet Newspaper Russian London Subscription to Russian Newspapers and Magazines in the UK Russian Britain Directory FreeLove http://www.russianlondon.com/uknews/culture/23900/

sl="1.3"; News Business Culture Sport ... Entertainment Ice fishing on Lake Vyacha, north of Minsk Timeline: Belarus - The Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic is proclaimed. - The Treaty of Riga divides Belarus between Poland and Soviet Russia. - The Belarusian SSR becomes founding member of the USSR. Stalin's purges - Belarus suffers from the purges against intellectuals and political opponents ordered by Stalin. More than one-hundred thousand people are executed in Belarus, thousands more sent to labour camps in Siberia. - Nazi Germany invades during the course of World War II. More than one million people are killed during the occupation, including many Jews. The capital, Minsk, is severely damaged. Belarusian, Polish veterans at the Lenino World War II battle site - The Soviet Red Army drives the Germans out of Belarus. - At the end of the war, much of western Belarus - previously belonging to Poland - is amalgamated into the Soviet Republic. - A policy of 'Russification' is pushed through. - Belarus is heavily affected by the fall-out from the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in neighbouring Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people receive high radiation doses. Around 20% of agricultural land is contaminated and rendered unusable. - Belarusian Popular Front formed as part of nationalist revival prompted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of 'openness'. Details emerge of the full extent of the executions during the Stalin period.

47. YANKA KUPALA STATE UNIVERSITY OF GRODNO, BELARUS Specializations English Language, German Language, History of belarus, World History, Theory and History of World culture, belarusian culture, http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceeed/un/be/be033.htm

European Directory On-Line Engineering MBA Science Search: EuroEducation ... Student Holidays Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus Rector Professor Sergei Maskevich Address 22 Ozheshko Street Grodno 230023, Belarus Tel. No. Fax No. E-mail address root@grsu.grodno.by Website address http://www.grsu.grodno.by Programmes Physics and Engineering Mathematics Biology and Ecology Linguistics History and Culture Law Economics and Management Physical Culture Psychology and Pedagogics Intensive Courses of Russian/Belarusian Languages Master Programmes Postgraduate Studies Type of programmes Full-time and part-time Length of programmes Full-time: 5 years Part-time: 6 years Master programmes: 1 year Postgraduate Studies: 3 years Date of commencement 1 September Class size 5-25 (depends on the programme) Accommodation Available. Halls of Residence or private sector accommodation Fees Overseas students: 1000-1700 USD per year Fees depend on the programme Admission requirements See below Student profile National/Overseas Students: 8500/45 Contact for application Dr. Yury Vaitukevich

48. History Of Belarus belarus has its own language, culture, heritage and, of course, history, Thus, in attempting to destroy belarusian culture, the Russians closed the http://www.hf.uib.no/Andre/vesti/belohist.htm

NOTES FROM THE HISTORY OF BELARUS -from ancient times to the present moment- Translated and compiled by Jauhen Reshatau , Minsk - Meadville, 1994 Editing by Peter Kasaty , December 1995 Document design by Dmitry Zelenko Contents Introduction Primordial Belarus - from Forest Tribes to the Decline of Polatsk The Development and Flourishing of Great Lithuania Belarus after Vitaut: Its Golden Age and Decline ... Sources There is no more happiness in this world, brothers, than if a man has intelligence and education. Only then will he manage to live in wealth and only then, praying God, will he deserve Heaven, for once having enriched his mind with science, he will develop his heart and love his people. Kastus Kalinouski Introduction The Republic of Belarus is one of what is called for convenience the former Soviet republics. This country is relatively new to most of the world, and people in the West as a rule only know what rare comments in modern history textbooks can tell them. These comments are mostly related to the years after the 1917 revolution in Russia. However, the independence of Belarus is not occassional and even not the first in its history. Belarus has its own language, culture, heritage and, of course, history, as does any other country of the world. The reason why Belarus is still generally unknown to the world is that most of its historical facts were hidden or artificially assimilated with Russian and Soviet histories. The current situation in Belarus does not encourage a lot of information about the republic to be disseminated. I myself have learned most of the facts a relatively short time ago, when true historic evidence of Belarus past became available. I hope that these notes will be helpful for all interested people who are eager to find out more about the history of this old and original country.

49. ABM Belarus Today A Personal Essay All of these reasons have made Belarusian culture especially rich. It will be a very, very bad sign for Belarusian culture when Belarusian television http://misc.home.by/bel-essay.htm

This File Last Updated: 1998/07/04 Belarus Today: A Personal Essay Go to the A Belarus Miscellany Topic List July, 1998 Prefatory comments In response to the many questions put forth to me about Belarus, this essay is an attempt at a reply to those interested folks. I apologize for not having time to answer each query in a personal, specific, and timely manner. This essay is also an attempt at trying to make sense of the post-Soviet era, and to try to summarize the current very difficult times in Belarus. Please remember this essay is only one person's point of view. It is a personal summary from the point of view of someone who feels a close connection with and who is very interested in, Belarus, its history, its people, its culture, and their future, but who is a citizen of a democratic country. Being a citizen of a democratic country who tries to be an informed citizen and voter (an awesome challenge in the '90's), I am aware of imperfections and the problems such a system can have, and the need for the active participation of its citizens if such a system is to remain healthy and thrive. Needless to say, there is much to worry about in any democracy. Of course, these notes are solely my personal opinions. The citizens of the Republic of Belarus must come to their own decisions. But because of over 50 years of isolation and the continuing isolation that results in a lack of information access, lack of transition to civil society and democratic institutions, their ability to make the difficult transition is on indefinite hold. But no country, no people, can continue to live in isolation and still be able to participate in such things as the global economy, the information age, and so forth.

50. The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Of The Republic Of Belarus Physical culture and Sports. Citizens of the Republic of belarus have the right to go in for physical culture and sports. To have this right ensured, http://www.mfa.gov.by/eng/index.php?d=belarus&id=40

51. GlobalEDGE (TM) | Country Insights - History Of Belarus globalEDGE Country Insights Profile of belarus from an international business in part owing to the strong flowering of belarusian culture during the http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/CountryHistory.asp?CountryID=38&RegionID=2

52. Belarus - Political Parties In Belarusian culture it is named Cross of Yaryla . Yaryla was the name of solar deity in ancient Slavs panteon, the cross itself is considered to be http://fotw.fivestarflags.com/by-polit.html

Belarus - Political Parties Last modified: by dov gutterman Keywords: belarus adradzhennye Links: FOTW homepage search write us mirrors ... Pro Russian-Belarussian Unification See also: Belarus Belarusian Christian-Democratic Union by Zach Harden , 16 March 2001 White flag with red cross is an official flag of Belarusian Christian-Democratic Union (adopted 1991) and Unity of Belarusian Students (swallow-tailed flag, officially adopted in 1992) Victor Lomantsov , 16 May 2000 Belarusian Freedom Party by Zachary Harden , 9 Febuary 2003 Flags from Belarus in German TV news (ARD and ZDF) - One flag was a new one, I didn't see it before. A tricolore with vertical white-red-black-stripes. Do anybody know this flag and its meaning ? J. Patrick Fischer , 10 September 2001 The Belarusian Resistance must be very similar than Belarusian Nationalist Mouvement, or even part of it. The official flag used by Belarusian Resistance is exactly like the Belorussian Nationalist Mouvement www.rubon.org Santiago Tazon , 23 January 2003 In Belarus, the tricolore with horizontal white-red-black stripes is a flag of belarusian ultra-conservatuve illegal party called "Belarusian Freedom Party". As explained by a member of this political party: "This is the traditional white-red-white flag of Belarus with the black stripe which symbolize the people who were killed during the soviet occupation of the country, and it will be changed for the white stripe only when Belarus will be really liberated from the soviet past"

53. SYSTEM OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN BELARUS and Russia – belarusian musical culture (including musical education as an the laws of the Republic of belarus on culture, education and languages. http://www.bgam.edu.by/bgam_en/mus-edu.htm

SYSTEM OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN BELARUS The version for listing Dr. Elena Gorokhovik (Dept. of Music History) On the borderline of the XX and XXI centuries the European community proved to be a witness of a remarkable historical phenomenon: on the territory of the former USSR there emerged a series of independent countries. The Republic of Belarus is one of the above-mentioned states. It is geographically situated at the very center of Europe, has been identified as a state for many centuries, has its own history, including prolific humanistic and enlightenment traditions as well as its own cultural background. The system of musical education in Belarus has a long-lasting historical path closely related with all the complex of musical traditions of this region. Because of its location – situated in-between Europe and Russia – Belarusian musical culture (including musical education as an integral part of it), has been influenced by a wide scope of different cultural elements: beginning with musical teaching in Orthodox monasteries and Jesuit Collegiums through the traditions of court musicianship of famous Belarusian-Polish noble families and up to the present with civil music education in regional cities of the country. The modern history of music education in Belarus gets its start at the very beginning of the XX century, when the first professional music institutions of a new type (public conservatories and music colleges) were founded in Minsk, Mogilyev, Vityebsk, Gomel and Bobruisk. The first public elementary music schools were opened at the same time. In 1932, on the base of a reorganized Minsk Music Technicum, the Belarusian State Conservatory was opened. In 1935, under the auspices of the Conservatory, was arranged a special Department for talented children – a prototype of today’s Republic Gymnasium-College of Music, a true cradle of hundreds of professionals in the realm of music.

54. Home : Country Focus : Belarus : Society And Culture Country Focus belarus Society and culture belarusian Heritage Comprehensive info on belarusian culture and society, including cities, maps, http://www.slavophilia.com/pages/Country_Focus/Belarus/Society_and_Culture/

Home Search Options Home : Country Focus : Belarus : Society and Culture Country Focus : Belarus : Society and Culture Home Add a Site Modify a Site What's New ... Advertising info Inside Home Translation/Interpretation Services Software Dictionaries Slavophilia Forums Reserve your hotels/hostels worldwide Categories: Children Diaspora Genealogy Religion ... Women Links: Belarusian Heritage - Comprehensive info on Belarusian culture and society, including cities, maps, architecture, traditional clothing, heraldry and more. (En) - (Added: 9-Mar-2000) [Rate It] You can post your questions, suggestions, ideas, news on Slavophilia Bulletin Board Join Slavophilia Forums Send comments, suggestions and corrections to webmaster@slavophilia.com

55. Home : Country Focus : Belarus : Society And Culture : Diaspora Country Focus belarus Society and culture Diaspora. Country Focus belarus Society and culture Diaspora. Home Add a Site Modify a Site http://www.slavophilia.com/pages/Country_Focus/Belarus/Society_and_Culture/Diasp

Home Search Options Home : Country Focus : Belarus : Society and Culture : Diaspora Country Focus : Belarus : Society and Culture : Diaspora Home Add a Site Modify a Site What's New ... Advertising info Inside Home Translation/Interpretation Services Software Dictionaries Slavophilia Forums Reserve your hotels/hostels worldwide Links: Anglo-Belarusian Society - An organisation for those who is interested in the Belarusian culture. Information about main activities happening in London, UK. - (Added: 10-Dec-2004) [Rate It] Belarusians in Britain - An umbrella web site for the Belarusian organisations in the United Kingdom. - (Added: 9-Dec-2004) [Rate It] You can post your questions, suggestions, ideas, news on Slavophilia Bulletin Board Join Slavophilia Forums Send comments, suggestions and corrections to webmaster@slavophilia.com

56. Belarus Now: Information And Analytical Bulletin; Politics. Economics. Finances. FAMOUS BELARUSIAN POET EMIGRATES. In the article Vladimir Neklyaev openly stood up for the Belarusian language, values of the Belarusian culture, http://www.open.by/belarus-now/cont/1999/0622/news/1.html

NEWS 22 June 1999 BREAKING NEWS FAMOUS BELARUSIAN POET EMIGRATES Seeking refuge from persecution by Belarusian authorities When being on private trip to Warsaw, Chairman of the Union of Belarusian Writers Vladimir Neklyaev announced his decision to stay in the West. He said the decision was due to political reasons. Last time the authorities have been extensively hounding the leader of Belarusian writers, especially after the latter published in Narodnaya Volya the article "Antipodes and Ethiopians". In the opinion of Mr Neklyaev, he could soon found himself behind the bars. In the article Vladimir Neklyaev openly stood up for the Belarusian language, values of the Belarusian culture, and ventured to unmask the mechanism of the authorities' pressure on outstanding cultural leaders. The article revealed the role of First Deputy PM Vladimir Zametalin in this hounding campaign. Mr Neklyaev's numerous efforts to find the ways of co-operation with the authorities faced their rough intrusion in the sphere of culture in order to subordinate the Belarusian culture and make it even more controllable than during the Soviet era. The leader of Belarusian writers faced a hard moral challenge. The authorities viewed him as a "minister of literature", appointed and cherished by them (the poet was awarded a National Prize in Literature) but who had ventured for an open rebellion. Thus they probably decided to put a hard hand to those "putrid intellectuals". The decision taken by Vladimir Neklyaev is symptomatic. On the one hand, it shows the authorities switch from hounding political opposition members, businessmen and their own top executives to repressions against cultural leaders. On the other hand, the rebellion action by the chairman of the Belarusian Writers' Union is an open challenge thrown down by Belarusian intellectuals to the regime. So, the old appeal of a Russian Communist writer "Whose side you are on, masters of culture?" appears to be topical in Belarus.

57. ABM -- Belarusian Music           Whether or not it is culture, even belarus has Rock n Roll! See also The World Rock for belarus! (Part of the Malady Front, youth political organization http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/belarus.old/bel-mus.htm

This File Last Updated: 1999/10/09 Belarusian Music - Recordings Go to the A Belarus Miscellany Topic List Go to the Belarusian Recordings Topic List A General Caveat. . . . Go to Downloadable (Belarusian) Music on the Internet Search the A Belarus Miscellany Web site Specific caveat about Belarusian-produced cassettes: They are often very good recordings, yet the (physical) tape material and cassette itself may be of poorer quality than you are used to. Also, I have never seen those little plastic tabs broken outthat protect against accidental erasurenor does the cassette itself have a label affixed to either side. However, the audio cassettes may be the only format in which the particular recording is available. They are very inexpensive, as are Belarusian-produced CDs if you can find the latter. This situation will improve (and the prices will go up), as Belarus increases its participation in international intellectual property right protection agreementswhich they have announced they would (early 1998). Unless noted otherwise in the following, all singing (and/or speaking) is done in Belarusian (and more than likely, it is the Soviet, Russified

58. ABM -- The Belarusian Diaspora           Chairperson of the Society of Belarusian culture in Lithuania Fyodor Nyunko. See articles about. Belarusian Government Allocates 7.2 Billion Rubels for http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/belarus.old/bel-diasp.htm

This File Last Updated: 2000/08/05 Go to the A Belarus Miscellany Topic List Search the A Belarus Miscellany Web site The World Alliance of Belarusians, Batskawshchyna (Fatherland) Books about the Belarusian Diaspora (United Kingdom; Great Britain, etc.) Belarusian-American Organizations (USA) Belarusian-American Institutions (USA) Belarusian-Canadian Organizations Belarusian-Canadian Periodicals ... Belarusian-Russian Organizations French Association and Periodical about Belarus: Perspectives Biélorussiennes See also the entry about the International Association for Belarusian Studies , at the Natzianalni Navykova-Asvetni Tzentr imya F. Skarini , Mensk, Belarus. See also the section related to Belarusian Genealogy See also the section related to Religion The following is the beginning of a list, by country, of Belarusian organizations outside of the Republic of Belarus. Each of the countries on the following list has at least one Belarusian organization. If you have information about any such organization, please contact me Australia On the Web: Belarusians in Adelaide (New, in late 1999)

59. Belarus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia culture. Main article culture of belarus. See also. belarusian language Music of belarus belarusians, list of belarusians belarusian media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus

Belarus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Belarus (disambiguation) Republic of Belarus Flag Coat of Arms Motto none Anthem My Belarusy Capital Minsk ... Independence From the Soviet Union July 27 August 25 Area negligible (183 sq. km)¹ Population est. census Density 49/km² ( GDP PPP estimate $70,524 million ( Currency rouble BYR Time zone ... Plans to introduce the Russian rouble The Republic of Belarus is a landlocked nation in Eastern Europe . It shares borders with Russia Ukraine Poland Lithuania , and Latvia Minsk is the nation's capital, and important cities include Brest Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homyel') and Vitebsk Through much of its history, what now is Belarus was a territory belonging to Lithuania Poland , and Russian Empire , eventually becoming a republic in the Soviet Union in 1922 as the Byelorussian SSR . The republic officially declared its independence on , following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since Alexander Lukashenko has been the President of the nation amidst allegations of human rights violations and an autocratic rule. As a consequence, Belarus has been excluded from joining the Council of Europe . The country also continues to suffer from the effects of nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident , alltough the accident took place in neighboring Ukraine . Culturally, Belarus has had problems in the past due to the Soviet plan of

60. Www.foodprog.com - About Belarus IV. culture Belarusian culture developed most notably from the mid19th century. Belarusian culture nevertheless made great strides in the 19th century, http://www.foodprog.com/history.htm

Introduction Land and Resourses The People of Belarus History I. INTRODUCTION Belarus, officially Respublika Belarus (Republic of Belarus), landlocked republic in east central Europe, bordered by Russia to the east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and the Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania to the northwest. Belarus has a generally flat terrain with many forests, lakes, and marshes. Nearly 80 percent of its people are ethnic Belarusians, and about three-quarters of its population live in urban centers. Belarus has a centrally planned economy dominated by state-controlled heavy industry. Its government is a presidential republic in which the executive is the chief authority. The capital and largest city is Minsk, located in the center of the country. Since medieval times Belarusian territory was under foreign rule, and in the 18th century it was annexed by the Russian Empire. Belarus was established in 1919 as the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), which in 1922 became one of the four founding republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In August 1991 Belarus declared its independence, contributing to the collapse of the USSR in December. [top] II. LAND AND RESOURCES

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