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2 days ago · Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] 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.
- Belarusians
Belarusians (Belarusian: беларусы, romanized: biełarusy) are...
- Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko [c] (also transliterated...
- Minsk
Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск, IPA:; Russian: Минск) is the...
- Emblem
Pahonia on the building of the Vitebsk State Academy of...
- Armed Forces of Belarus
On November 3, 1992, Belarus passed the law "On the Armed...
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in...
- Flag
The state flag of Belarus (Belarusian: Сцяг Беларусі,...
- My Belarusy
"My Belarusy" was originally used as the anthem of the...
- National Assembly
The National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus...
- Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and...
- Belarusians
4 days ago · Belarus is the world's 74th-largest economy by GDP. As of 2018, Belarus ranks 53rd from 189 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index, and appeared in the group of states with "very high development".
4 days ago · Belarusian cultural figures have been persecuted and hundreds of its nationalist organizations have been closed. Experts say Moscow is seeking to implement in Belarus what the Kremlin intended to do in neighboring Ukraine when the war there began in 2022.
5 days ago · The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) had its origins on December 8, 1991, when the elected leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Belorussia) signed an agreement forming a new association to replace the crumbling Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.).
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3 days ago · Belarus, which since 2023 has resumed hosting Russian nuclear weapons, also had single warhead missiles stationed on its territory into the 1990s while a constituent of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 81 single warhead missiles were stationed on newly Belarusian territory, but were all transferred to Russia by 1996.
4 days ago · Overview. Belarus occupies 80,154 square miles (207,600 square kilometers) and is approximately the size of Great Britain or the State of Kansas. It is a landlocked country bounded by Poland on the west; Ukraine on the south; on the northeast by Russia; and on the northwest by Latvia and Lithuania.
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5 days ago · The authoritarian leader made Russian an official language, alongside Belarusian, and did away with the nationalist symbols. Now, with Lukashenko in control of the country for over three decades, he has allowed Russia to dominate all aspects of life in Belarus, a country of 9.5 million people.
