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The banning of Russia and Belarus from the Olympics has drawn comparisons to the athletic boycott of apartheid South Africa. According to Olympic historians David Wallechinsky and Bill Mallon , the decision can be considered a turning point when compared to past leniency over the state-sponsored doping programme in Russia or the attempted ...
The incorporation of Western Belarus to the USSR radically affected the state of protection of the state border with Lithuania by parts of the Belarusian District. After the accession of Western Belarus to the BSSR on October 15, 1939, the border detachments of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the BSSR was tasked to ...
A minoria católica romana do país, que forma cerca de 10% da população do país, [82] e se concentra na parte ocidental do país, especialmente em torno de Hrodna, e é formada por uma mistura de bielorrussos e da minoria polonesa e lituana do país. Cerca de 1% da população pertence à Igreja Greco-Católica Bielorrussa. [83]
Since 1998, Belarus has had its own diplomatic mission in NATO. 2004. Belarus formally announced its accession to the NATO process on 19 January 2004, and in January 2006 Belarus and NATO approved the first package of partnership documents, containing 21 objectives (9 common objectives, 7 ground forces, 5 air forces) and an evaluation document.
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Belarus is the world's 74th-largest economy by GDP. , Belarus ranks 53rd from 189 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index, and appeared in the group of states with "very high development". With an efficient health system, it has a very low infant-mortality rate of 2.9 (compared to 6.6 in Russia or 3.7 in the United Kingdom ).
Belarus (average) 0.808: 3 Grodno Region: 0.805 4 Brest Region: 0.800 High Human Development 5 Vitebsk Region: 0.799 6 Mogilev Region: 0.797 References
