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Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) and with a population of 9.2 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into seven regions. Minsk is the capital and largest city.
Between the medieval period and the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917, different states arose competing for legitimacy amid the Civil War, ultimately ending in the rise of the Byelorussian SSR, which became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922. After the Polish-Soviet War, Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland. Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were reintegrated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland, and were finalized after World War II. During World War II, military operations devastated Belarus, which lost about a quarter of its population and half of its economic resources. The republic was home to a widespread and diverse anti-Nazi insurgent movement which dominated politics until well into the 1970s, overseeing Belarus' transformation from an agrarian to industrial economy. In 1945, the Byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union.
The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus declared independence on 25 August 1991. Following the adoption of a new constitution in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko was elected Belarus's first president in the country's first and only free election after independence, serving as president ever since. Lukashenko heads a highly centralized authoritarian government. Belarus ranks low in international measurements of freedom of the press and civil liberties. It is also the only European country that continues to use capital punishment. It has continued a number of Soviet-era policies, such as state ownership of large sections of the economy. In 2000, Belarus and Russia signed a treaty for greater cooperation, forming the Union State. (Full article...)
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Siarhei Mikhalok (born January 19, 1972, Belarusian: Сяргей Міхалок, Russian: Серге́й Михалок, Sergey Mikhalok) is a Belarusian rock musician and actor. He was the frontman of the ska punk band Lyapis Trubetskoy that he dissolved on September 1, 2014. He was the frontman of the band Brutto, now leads Drezden.
Born into a family of a Soviet military man in Dresden, East Germany. The family was originally from Minsk. He grew up in Siberia. (Full article...)General images
The 2015 Minsk Victory Day Parade on Victors Avenue. Victory Day (9 May) celebrations are a major part of cultural life in the capital. (from Culture of Belarus)
Mass murder of Soviet civilians near Minsk, 1943 (from History of Belarus)
Position of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Eastern Europe until 1434 (from History of Belarus)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th century. The territory of modern-day Belarus was fully within its borders. (from History of Belarus)
Belarusian dudar (duda player), 1904 postcard (from Culture of Belarus)
Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka (from Culture of Belarus)
The flag of the People's Republic of Belarus in 1918 and of the Republic of Belarus in 1991-1995 (from History of Belarus)
Braslaw Lakes (from List of national parks of Belarus)
Signatures on the Budapest Memorandum for security assurances to Belarus in exchange for national denuclearization (from History of Belarus)
Mass protests in Minsk against policies by the central Soviet authorities in April 1991 (from History of Belarus)
View of Novogrudok, by Napoleon Orda (from History of Belarus)
Traditional Belarusian shirt (from Culture of Belarus)
Church of the Saviour's Transfiguration in Zaslawye (1577) (from History of Belarus)
The Principality of Polotsk within Kievan Rus' in the 11th century (from History of Belarus)
View of Polotsk in 1912 (from History of Belarus)
Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature (from Culture of Belarus)
The territory claimed by the People's Republic of Belarus, 1918 (from History of Belarus)
Union of Lublin of 1569, oil on canvas by Jan Matejko, 1869, 298×512 cm, National Museum in Warsaw (from History of Belarus)
Pahonia, the Coat of Arms of the People's Republic of Belarus in 1918 and of the Republic of Belarus in 1991-1995 (from History of Belarus)
Jews in the Minsk Ghetto, 1941 (from History of Belarus)
Traditional Jewish life continued in Pinsk (Western Belarus) until WWII. (Photo by Alter Kacyzne, 1924) (from History of Belarus)
Map of Kievan Rus', 11th century (from History of Belarus)
Foreign occupation of the Commonwealth during The Deluge and Khmelnytsky Uprising (from History of Belarus)
Vladimir I and princess Rogneda of Polotsk (painting of 1770) (from History of Belarus)
50 years of Soviet Belarus — a Soviet postage stamp of 1969 (from History of Belarus)
Second battle of Polotsk (1812), as depicted by Peter von Hess (from History of Belarus)
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A view of Hrodna, circa 1575 or later
A view of Lake Osveya
2002 postage stamps of Belarus
![Image 4The Fiddler, 1912–1913, by Marc Chagall, a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin[2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Image-Chagall_Fiddler.jpg/101px-Image-Chagall_Fiddler.jpg)
The Fiddler, 1912–1913, by Marc Chagall, a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin[2]
![Image 5White storks on their nest in Belarus, 2009. The Stork is the national symbol of Belarus.[1]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/BY_stork1_2009.jpg/80px-BY_stork1_2009.jpg)
White storks on their nest in Belarus, 2009. The Stork is the national symbol of Belarus.[1]
Decorated bales of hay on the road to Turov
A view of the Berestye Archeological Museum in Brest, Belarus
A relief map of Belarus (1997)
Members of the orchestra performing at the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus in 2013
A view of the historic center of Minsk, a Belarusian heritage monument
A winter panorama view of Grodno Zoo, 2012
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- ^ Kopka, D. (2011). Welcome to Belarus: Passport to Eastern Europe & Russia. Passport Series. Milliken Publishing Company. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7877-2770-3. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ^ Harshav, Benjamin. Marc Chagall and his times: a documentary narrative. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford University Press; 1 edition. August 2003. ISBN 0804742146.
