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502 relations: Abkhazia, Administrative centre, Afghanistan, Alaksandar Milinkievič, Aleksander Gieysztor, Ales Adamovich, Alexander III of Russia, Alexander Lukashenko, All-Belarusian People's Assembly, Alyaksandr Kazulin, Amnesty International, Anatoly Bogatyrev, Andrei Arlovski, Andrei Sannikov, Asia, Association football, Athens, Atlantic Council, Australian Open, Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Avant-garde, Źmitrok Biadula, Żeligowski's Mutiny, Babruysk, Baku Initiative, Balts, Battle of Grunwald, Battle on the Nemiga River, BBC News Online, Belarus (tractor), Belarus Democracy Act of 2004, Belarus Governorate, Belarus men's national ice hockey team, Belarus national football team, Belarus–China relations, Belarus–European Union border crisis, Belarus–European Union relations, Belarus–Lithuania border, Belarus–Poland border, Belarusian Agrarian Party, Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Belarusian Central Council, Belarusian cuisine, Belarusian Democratic Republic, Belarusian economic miracle, Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarusian language, ... Expand index (452 more) »
- Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
- Member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- Member states of the Eurasian Economic Union
- States and territories established in the 980s
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
Administrative centre
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Belarus and Afghanistan are landlocked countries, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Alaksandar Milinkievič
Alaksandar Uładzimieravič Milinkievič (translit, translit, born 25 July 1947) is a Belarusian politician.
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Aleksander Gieysztor
Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian.
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Ales Adamovich
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Adamovich (translit, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Адамо́вич; 3 September 1927 – 26 January 1994) was a Soviet Belarusian writer, screenwriter, literary critic and democratic activist.
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Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.
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Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, currently the longest in Europe.
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All-Belarusian People's Assembly
The All-Belarusian People's Assembly, or ABPA, is the highest organ of state power of the Republic of Belarus.
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Alyaksandr Kazulin
Alyaksandr Kazulin (Аляксандр Уладзіслававіч Казулін, Александр Владиславович Козулин, born 25 November 1955 in Minsk) is the former leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party and one of the candidates who ran for the office of President of Belarus on 19 March 2006.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Anatoly Bogatyrev
Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (Анатоль Васільевіч Багатыроў, Анатолий Васильевич Богатырё́в; – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music.
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Andrei Arlovski
Andrei Arlovski (born 4 February 1979) is a Belarusian-American professional mixed martial artist and actor, who is currently a free agent.
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Andrei Sannikov
Andrei Olegovich Sannikov (or Andrei Sannikau, Андрэй Алегавіч Саннікаў, Андрей Олегович Санников, born 8 March 1954) is a Belarusian politician and activist.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council is an American think tank in the field of international affairs, favoring Atlanticism, founded in 1961.
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Australian Open
The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held annually at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
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Autocracy
Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat.
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
Źmitrok Biadula
Samuil Jafimavič Płaŭnik (translit; שמואל בן חיים פּלאַווניק; 23 April 1886 – 3 November 1941), better known by the pen name Źmitrok Biadula (Зьмітрок Бядуля), was a Soviet and Belarusian poet, prose writer, translator, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement.
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Żeligowski's Mutiny
Żeligowski's Mutiny (bunt Żeligowskiego, also, Želigovskio maištas) was a Polish false flag operation led by General Lucjan Żeligowski in October 1920, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania.
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Babruysk
Babruysk or Bobruysk (Babrujsk,; Бобруйск,; Bobroysk) is a city in Mogilev Region, Belarus.
Baku Initiative
The Baku Initiative is an international initiative of the European Union.
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Balts
The Balts or Baltic peoples (baltai, balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages.
Battle of Grunwald
The Battle of Grunwald, Battle of Žalgiris, or First Battle of Tannenberg, was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
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Battle on the Nemiga River
The Battle on the Nemiga River (Бітва на Нямізе; Битва на реке Немиге) was a battle of the Kievan Rus' feudal period that occurred on March 3, 1067 on the Niamiha River.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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Belarus (tractor)
Belarus («Белару́с», earlier «Белару́сь») is a series of four-wheeled tractors produced since 1950 at Minsk Tractor Works, MTZ (Мінскі трактарны завод; Ми́нский тра́кторный заво́д, МТЗ) in Minsk, Belarus.
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Belarus Democracy Act of 2004
The Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 is a United States federal law that authorizes assistance for political parties, non-governmental organizations, and independent media working to advance democracy and human rights in Belarus.
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Belarus Governorate
Belarus Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire established on December 12, 1796.
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Belarus men's national ice hockey team
The Belarusian men's national ice hockey team (Зборная Беларусі па хакеі з шайбай; Сборная Беларуси по хоккею с шайбой) is the national ice hockey team that represented Belarus.
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Belarus national football team
The Belarus national football team (Zbornaja Biełarusi pa futbole; Sbornaya Belarusi po futbolu) represents Belarus in men's international football, and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus.
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Belarus–China relations
Relations between Belarus and the People's Republic of China have been generally positive, with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko advocating that Belarus should take an approach of "understanding China, learning from China, and approaching China.".
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Belarus–European Union border crisis
In August 2021, the government of Belarus began coordinating an influx of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, to the borders of Lithuania, Poland and Latvia.
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Belarus–European Union relations
Mutual relations between the Republic of Belarus and the European Union (EU) were initially established after the European Economic Community recognised Belarusian independence in 1991.
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Belarus–Lithuania border
The Belarus–Lithuania border is an international border almost in length between the Republic of Belarus (CIS member) and the Republic of Lithuania (EU member).
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Belarus–Poland border
The Belarusian–Polish border is the state border between the Republic of Poland (EU member) and the Republic of Belarus (Union State).
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Belarusian Agrarian Party
The Belarusian Agrarian Party (Belorusskaja agrarnaja partija; Bielaruskaja ahrarnaja partyja) was an agrarian socialist political party in Belarus.
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Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (Беларуская аўтакефальная праваслаўная царква, Bielaruskaja aŭtakiefaĺnaja pravaslaŭnaja carkva BAPC), sometimes abbreviated as B.A.O. Church or BAOC, is an independent Eastern Orthodox church, unrecognized by the mainstream Eastern Orthodox communion.
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Belarusian Central Council
The Belarusian Central Council (Biełaruskaja centralnaja rada; Weißruthenischer Zentralrat) was a puppet administrative body in German-occupied Belarus during World War II.
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Belarusian cuisine
Belarusian cuisine (Biełaruskaja kuchnia) refers to the culinary traditions native to Belarus.
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Belarusian Democratic Republic
The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; Biełaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, БНР), also known as the Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I. The Council proclaimed the Belarusian Democratic Republic independent in its Third Constituent Charter on 25 March 1918 during the occupation of contemporary Belarus by the Imperial German Army.
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Belarusian economic miracle
The Belarusian economic miracle was a period of significant economic growth, urbanisation, and social change in Belarus during the late 20th century and early 21st century.
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Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church, or the Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church, is one of the 23 Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular churches that are in full communion with the Holy See.
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Belarusian history in the Russian Empire
The Belarusian history within the Russian Empire is associated with the history of Belarus from the Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the October Revolution when the present-day Belarus' lands were made part of the Russian Empire.
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Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Belarus, a close ally of Russia, has supported its eastern neighbour in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Belarusian language
Belarusian (label) is an East Slavic language.
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Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"
The Belarusian Left Party "A Just World" (Biełaruskaja partyja levych "Spraviadlivy sviet") is a former left-wing political party in Belarus that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.
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Belarusian Orthodox Church
The Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC; translit, translit) is the official name of the exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus.
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Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union
The Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union or the Hramada (Biełaruskaja Sialanska-Rabotnickaja Hramada, Białoruska Włościańsko-Robotnicza Hromada) was a socialist agrarian political party created in 1925 by a group of Belarusian deputies to the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic that included Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Symon Rak-Michajłoŭski (be), Piotra Miatła (be), and the founder of Hramada Pavieł Vałošyn (be).
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Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie", BNF) was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1980s and 1990s whose goals were national revival of Belarus, its democratization and independence from the Soviet Union.
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Belarusian resistance during World War II
The Belarusian resistance during World War II opposed Nazi Germany from 1941 until 1944. Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The term Belarusian partisans may refer to Soviet-formed irregular military groups fighting Germany, but has also been used to refer to the disparate independent groups who also fought as guerrillas at the time, including Jewish groups (such as the Bielski partisans and Fareynikte Partizaner Organisatsye), Polish groups (such as the Home Army), and nationalist Belarusian forces opposed to Germany.
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Belarusian ruble
The ruble, rouble or rubel (rubieĺ, rubl'; abbreviation: руб or р. in Cyrillic, Rbl in Latin (plural: Rbls); ISO code: BYN) is the currency of Belarus.
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Belarusian Social Sporting Party
The Belarusian Social Sporting Party (BSSP; Byelorusskaya sotsial'no-sportivnaya partiya; Bielaruskaja sacyjaĺna-spartyŭnaja partyja) was a political party in Belarus that supported the government of President Alexander Lukashenko.
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Belarusian Telegraph Agency
The Belarusian Telegraph Agency or BelTA (Беларускае Тэлеграфнае Агенцтва, Белорусское Телеграфное Агентство, БелТА) is the state-owned national news agency of the Republic of Belarus.
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Belarusians
Belarusians (biełarusy) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus.
Belarusians in Poland
The Belarusian minority in Poland (Biełarusy w Polščy; Białorusini w Polsce) is composed of 47,000 people according to the Polish census of 2011.
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Belsat TV
Belsat (Белсат; Biełsat; stylised as B☰LSAT) is a Polish free-to-air terrestrial and satellite television channel aimed at Belarus.
Bereza Kartuska Prison
Bereza Kartuska Prison (Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej, "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was operated by Poland's Sanation government from 1934 to 1939 in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship (today, Biaroza, Belarus).
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Białowieża Forest
Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus.
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Białystok
Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.
Biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
Bicameralism
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.
Black Ruthenia
Black Ruthenia (Ruthenia Nigra), or Black Rus' (translit; Juodoji Rusia; Ruś Czarna), is a historical region on the Upper Neman, including Novogrudok, Grodno and Slonim.
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Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.
BPF Party
The BPF Party (Partyja BNF; Partiya BNF) is a banned political party in Belarus.
Bread and salt
Bread and salt are offered to guests in a ceremony of welcome in cultures around the world.
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Brest Fortress
Brest Fortress (Брэсцкая крэпасць,; Twierdza brzeska, Bresto tvirtovė, Брестская крепость), formerly known as Brest-Litoŭsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus.
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Brest, Belarus
Brest, formerly Brest-Litovsk and Brest-on-the-Bug, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the Polish town of Terespol, where the Bug and Mukhavets rivers meet, making it a border town.
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Buffer state
A buffer state is a country geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers.
Byelorussian collaboration with Nazi Germany
During World War II, some Belarusians collaborated with the invading Axis powers.
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Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).
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Caesium
Caesium (IUPAC spelling; cesium in American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Cs and atomic number 55.
Caesium-137
Caesium-137, cesium-137 (US), or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Belarus and Canada are member states of the United Nations.
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Capital punishment in Belarus
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Belarus.
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Catherine the Great
Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Church in Belarus
The Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
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Censorship in Belarus
Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws.
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Central European mixed forests
The Central European mixed forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0412) is a temperate hardwood forest covering much of northeastern Europe, from Germany to Russia.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
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Cimmerians
The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.
Collective farming
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise".
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Collective Security Treaty Organization
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002.
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Come and See
Come and See (Idi i smotri; Idzi i hliadzi; meaning ‘go and see’) is a 1985 Soviet anti-war tragedy film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, is an independent U.S. government agency created by Congress in 1975 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) commitments.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.
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Communist Party of Belarus
The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; Kamunistyčnaja Partyja Bielarusi) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Belarus.
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Communist Party of Byelorussia
The Communist Party of Byelorussia (CPB; translit; translit) was the ruling communist party of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1922, that existed from 1917 to 1991.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
Constitution of Belarus
The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus (Канстытуцыя Рэспублікі Беларусь; Конституция Республики Беларусь) is the ultimate law of Belarus.
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Constitutional Court of Belarus
The Constitutional Court of Belarus is one of the top-tier courts in the eastern European country.
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Continental climate
Continental climates often have a significant annual variation in temperature (warm to hot summers and cold winters).
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Copyright infringement
Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.
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Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.
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Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
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Council of the European Union
The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.
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Council of the Republic (Belarus)
The Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (Савет Рэспублікі Нацыянальнага сходу Рэспублікі Беларусь; Совет Республики Национального собрания Республики Беларусь) is the upper house of the parliament of Belarus.
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Cultural hegemony
In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm.
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Curzon Line
The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I. Based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton, it was first proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, to the Supreme War Council as a diplomatic basis for a future border agreement.
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
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Darya Domracheva
Darya Uladzimirauna Domracheva (Дар’я Уладзіміраўна Домрачэва; born 3 August 1986) is a retired Belarusian biathlete and coach who competed in the Biathlon World Cup from 2006 to 2018.
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Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was a formal document issued by the Supreme Soviet of Belarus to assert its independence from the Soviet Union.
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Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures.
Defense of Brest Fortress
The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941.
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Delfi (web portal)
Delfi (occasionally capitalized as DELFI) is a news website in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania providing daily news, ranging from gardening to politics.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Digital media
In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Dnieper
The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Dnieper–Donets culture
The Dnieper–Donets culture complex (DDCC) (ca. 5th—4th millennium BC) is a Mesolithic and later Neolithic archaeological culture found north of the Black Sea and dating to ca.
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Drang nach Osten
Drang nach Osten ('Drive to the East',Ulrich Best,, 2008, p. 58, Edmund Jan Osmańczyk, Anthony Mango, Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements, 2003, p. 579, or 'push eastward',Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki, Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945, 1996, p.
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Druzhba pipeline
The Druzhba pipeline (нефтепровод «Дружба», Ropovod Družba); also has been referred to as the Friendship Pipeline and the Comecon Pipeline) is one of the world's longest oil pipelines and one of the largest oil pipeline networks in the world. It began operation in 1964 and remains in operation today.
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Dzyarzhynskaya Hara
Dzyarzhynskaya Hara (Dziaržynskaja hara) is the highest point in Belarus.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) is a joint initiative of the European Union, together with its member states, and six Eastern European countries.
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Economy of Belarus
The economy of Belarus is an upper-middle income mixed economy.
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Eurasian Economic Community
The Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC or EurAsEC) was a regional organisation between 2000 and 2014 which aimed for the economic integration of its member states.
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Eurasian Economic Union
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU or EEU)EAEU is the acronym used on the.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Council
The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body (directorial system) that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union.
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European Neighbourhood Policy
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a foreign relations instrument of the European Union (EU) which seeks to tie those countries to the east and south of the European territory of the EU to the Union.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union.
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FC BATE Borisov
FC BATE Borisov (ФК БАТЭ Борисов, FK BATE Borisov; ФК БАТЭ Барысаў, BATE Barysaw) is a Belarusian professional football team from the city of Barysaw.
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Five-year plans of the Soviet Union
The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Пятилетние планы развития народного хозяйства СССР, Pyatiletniye plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s.
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Flag of Belarus
The state flag of Belarus (Sciah Biełarusi) is a red-green bicolour with a red-on-white ornament pattern placed at the hoist (staff) end.
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Flax
Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae.
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Francysk Skaryna
Francysk Skaryna (alternative transcriptions of his name: Francišak Skaryna or Francisk Skaryna; Franciscus Scorina, language Скарына; Pranciškus Skorina; Franciszek Skaryna, František Skorina; 1470 – 1551/29 January 1552) was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom (ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.
Generalized System of Preferences
The Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, is a preferential tariff system which provides tariff reduction on various products.
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Generalplan Ost
The (Master Plan for the East), abbreviated GPO, was Nazi Germany's plan for the genocide, extermination and large-scale ethnic cleansing of Slavs, Eastern European Jews, and other indigenous peoples of Eastern Europe categorized as "Untermenschen" in Nazi ideology.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II
The German invasion of the Soviet Union started on 22 June 1941 and led to a German military occupation of Byelorussia until it was fully liberated in August 1944 as a result of Operation Bagration.
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Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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God's Playground
God's Playground: A History of Poland is a history book in two volumes written by Norman Davies, covering a 1000-year history of Poland.
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Gomel
Gomel (Гомель) or Homyel (Homieĺ) is a city in Belarus.
Gomel Region
Gomel Region or Homieĺ Region, also known as Gomel Oblast or Homyel Voblasts (Homieĺskaja voblasć; Gomelskaya oblast), is one of the regions of Belarus.
Government-in-exile
A government-in-exile (GiE) is a political group that claims to be the legitimate government of a sovereign state or semi-sovereign state, but is unable to exercise legal power and instead resides in a foreign country.
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Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.
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Grand Slam (tennis)
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year.
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Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
Great Russia
Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' (Великая Русь, Velikaya Rus', Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya, Великороссия, Velikorossiya), is a name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia.
Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Grodno
Grodno (Гродно; Grodno) or Hrodna (Гродна) is a city in western Belarus.
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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HC Dinamo Minsk
Hockey Club Dinamo Minsk or HC Dinamo Minsk, (Дина́мо-Минск; Дынама-Мінск, Dynama-Minsk) is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus.
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Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.
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Hemiboreal
Hemiboreal means halfway between the temperate and subarctic (or boreal) zones.
History of Belarus
The lands of Belarus during the Middle Ages became part of Kievan Rus' and were split between different regional principalities, including Polotsk, Turov, Vitebsk, and others.
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History of the Jews in Belarus
The history of the Jews in Belarus begins as early as the 8th century.
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Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
House of Representatives (Belarus)
The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus is the lower house of the parliament of Belarus, while the upper house is the Council of the Republic.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human rights in Belarus
The government of Belarus is criticized for its human rights violations and persecution of non-governmental organisations, independent journalists, national minorities, and opposition politicians.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place.
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Human trafficking
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.
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Huns
The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
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Hybrid warfare
Hybrid warfare is a theory of military strategy, first proposed by Frank Hoffman, which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare, and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare, regime change, and foreign electoral intervention.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held at the E Center in West Valley City and Peaks Ice Arena in Provo, Utah.
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Ice Hockey World Championships
The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European Championships, the precursor to the World Championships, were first held in 1910.
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Imperial German Army
The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.
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Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army or Russian Imperial Army (Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Independence Day (Belarus)
Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus (Дзень Незалежнасці Рэспублікі Беларусь, День Независимости Республики Беларусь), also known as Republic Day or Liberation Day is a public holiday, the independence day of Belarus and is celebrated each year on 3 July.
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Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations.
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Inna Zhukova
Inna Zhukova (Іна Іванаўна Жукава; Инна Ивановна Жукова: Inna Ivanovna Zhukova, born on September 6, 1986, in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast.
Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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International Institute for Strategic Studies
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is an international research institute or think tank focusing on defence and security issues.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International rankings of Belarus
The following is a list of international rankings of.
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International reactions to the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and protests
The following is a list of the official reactions to the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and the surrounding 2020 Belarusian protests.
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International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Following the full declaration of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022, institutions such as the United States, the European Union, and other Western countries introduced or significantly expanded sanctions covering Russian President Vladimir Putin, other government members and Russian citizens in general.
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International Security Assistance Force
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a multinational military mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014.
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Invasion of Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in Belarus
A continuous presence of Islam in Belarus began in the 14th century.
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ISO 4217
ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.
Ivan III of Russia
Ivan III Vasilyevich (Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505.
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Jamestown Foundation
The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank.
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Jan of Czarnków
Jan(ko) of Czarnków (Jan(ko) z Czarnkowa) (ca. 1320–1387), of Nałęcz coat of arms, was a Polish chronicler, Deputy Chancellor of the Crown and Archdeacon of Gniezno.
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January Uprising
The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland. Belarus and Japan are member states of the United Nations.
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Klemens Piłsudski (5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State (1918–1922) and first Marshal of Poland (from 1920).
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Jerome Horsey
Sir Jerome Horsey (c. 1550 – 1626), of Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, was an English explorer, diplomat and politician in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell Fontelles (born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Judicial independence
Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government.
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Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.
Kingdom of Poland
The Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie; Latin: Regnum Poloniae) was a monarchy in Central Europe during the medieval period from 1025 until 1385.
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Kirill Mazurov
Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov (Kiryła Trafimavič Mazuraw, Кири́лл Трофи́мович Ма́зуров; 25 March 1914 – 19 December 1989) was a Soviet partisan, politician, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1956 until 1965, when he became a member of the Politburo of the CPSU.
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Kirill of Turov
Cyril of Turov, alternately Kirill of Turov (Kürīllǔ Turovsǐkij, Kiryła Turawski, Kirill Turovskiy; 1130–1182) was a bishop and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Koinonia
Koinonia is a transliterated form of the Greek word κοινωνία, which refers to concepts such as fellowship, joint participation, partnership, the share which one has in anything, a gift jointly contributed, a collection, a contribution.
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.
Konstanty Kalinowski
Konstanty Kalinowski, or Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski (–), was a Belarusian-Polish writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary.
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Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008.
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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
Krystsina Siarheyeuna Tsimanouskaya (born 19 November 1996) is a Belarusian-born Polish sprinter.
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Kyiv Post
The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
Landlocked country
A landlocked country is a country that does not have any territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins. Belarus and landlocked country are landlocked countries.
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Latin Church
The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Belarus and Latvia are countries in Europe, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Lebensraum
Lebensraum (living space) is a German concept of expansionism and ''Völkisch'' nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s.
Leonid Kravchuk
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Леонід Макарович Кравчук,; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994.
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LGBT rights in Belarus
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Belarus face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing.
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Lipka Tatars
The Lipka Tatars (Lipka – refers to Lithuania, also known as Lipkas, Lithuanian Tatars; later also – Polish Tatars, Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, Belarusian Tatars, Lipkowie, Lipcani, Muślimi, Lietuvos totoriai) are a Turkic ethnic group who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.
List of Belarus-related topics
An enlargeable map of the Republic of Belarus This is a list of topics related to Belarus.
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List of Christian denominations
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.
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List of cities and towns in Belarus
This is a list of cities and towns in Belarus.
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List of countries and dependencies by area
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area.
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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita
The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.
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List of countries by income equality
This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients.
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List of European countries by area
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe.
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List of European countries by population
This list of European countries by population comprises the 51 countries and 5 territories and dependencies in Europe, broadly defined, including Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and the countries of the Caucasus.
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List of prime ministers of Belarus
This is a list of prime ministers of Belarus since the Belarusian declaration of independence in 1918.
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List of UFC champions
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champions are fighters who have won UFC championships.
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List of urban-type settlements in Belarus
Urban-type settlements are a type of populated place in Belarus.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Belarus and Lithuania are countries in Europe, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.
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Lithuanians
Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.
Little Russia
Little Russia (Malorossiya; Malorosiia), also known in English as Malorussia, Little Rus' (Malaya Rus; translit), Rus' Minor (from translit), and the French equivalent Petite Russie, is a geographical and historical term used to describe Ukraine.
Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.
Liubov Charkashyna
Liubov Viktorovna Charkashyna (Любоў Віктараўна Чаркашына; Любовь Викторовна Черкашина, born December 23, 1987) is a retired Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast.
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Local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.
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Lucjan Żeligowski
Lucjan Żeligowski (17 October 1865 – 9 July 1947) was a Polish-Lithuanian general, politician, military commander and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II.
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Maksim Haretski
Maksim Haretski (18 February 1893 – 10 February 1938; Максі́м Іва́навіч Гарэ́цкі, Макси́м Ива́нович Горе́цкий), also known as Maksim Harecki and Maksim Goretsky, was a Belarusian prose writer, journalist, activist of the Belarusian national renewal, folklorist, lexicographer, and professor.
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.
Marl
Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.
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Marsh
In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.
Maryna Arzamasova
Maryna Aliaksandrauna Arzamasova (née Katowich, Марына Аляксандраўна Арзамасава (Катовіч), Марина Александровна Арзамасова; born 17 December 1987) is a Belarusian middle-distance runner.
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Max Mirnyi
Maksim "Max" Mikalaevich Mirnyi (Максім Мікалаевіч Мірны,; Максим Николаевич Мирный,; born 6 July 1977) is a Belarusian former professional tennis player.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Medieval literature
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).
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Melitina Staniouta
Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta (Меліціна Дзмітрыеўна Станюта, Мелитина Дмитриевна Станюта; born 15 November 1993) is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast.
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Middle High German literature
Middle High German literature refers to literature written in German between the middle of the 11th century and the middle of the 14th.
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Milk War
The Milk War was a trade conflict between Russia and Belarus in June 2009.
Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
Mir Castle Complex
The Mir Castle Complex (Mirski zamak; Мирский замок; Zamek w Mirze; Myriaus pilies kompleksas) is a historic fortified castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belarus.
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Modern paganism
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.
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Mogilev
Mogilev, also transliterated as Mahilyow (Mahilioŭ,; Mogilyov,; Mogilev), is a city in eastern Belarus.
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities including the largest such as Kiev (50,000 inhabitants) and Chernigov (30,000 inhabitants).
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Moscow Time
Moscow Time (MSK, moskovskoye vremya) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg.
Most favoured nation
In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation (MFN) is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.
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Motion of no confidence
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.
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MSN
MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.
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Music of Belarus
Belarus is an Eastern European country with a rich tradition of folk and religious music.
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My Belarusy
The "State Anthem of the Republic of Belarus" (Dziaržawny himn Respubliki Bielaruś), better known as "" (Мы, беларусы, My, Bielarusy; "We, Belarusians"), is the national anthem of Belarus.
Nasha Niva
Nasha Niva (Naša Niva, lit. "Our field") is one of the oldest Belarusian weekly newspapers, founded in 1906 and re-established in 1991.
National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus
The National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus (Nacyjanalny schod Respubliki Bielaruś; Natsionalnoye sobran'ye Respubliki Belarus') is the bicameral parliament of Belarus.
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National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB; Нацыянальны банк Рэспублікі Беларусь; Национальный банк Республики Беларусь) is the central bank of Belarus, located in Minsk.
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National Democracy (Poland)
National Democracy (Narodowa Demokracja, also known from its abbreviation ND as Endecja) was a Polish political movement active from the second half of the 19th century under the foreign partitions of the country until the end of the Second Polish Republic.
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National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
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Neman
The Neman, Niemen or Nemunas is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.
Nesvizh Castle
Nesvizh Castle or Nyasvizh Castle (Niasvižski zamak; translit; zamek w Nieświeżu; Nesvyžiaus pilis) is a residential castle of the Radziwiłł family in Nyasvizh (Nesvizh), Belarus.
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Net migration rate
The net migration rate is the difference between the number of immigrants (people coming into an area) and the number of emigrants (people leaving an area) divided by the population.
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Nicholas I of Russia
Nicholas I (–) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland.
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Nightingale (ballet)
Nightingale is a ballet created in 1939 by Aleksey Yermolayev and Fedor Lopukhov to music by Mikhail Kroshner.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
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Norman Davies
Ivor Norman Richard Davies (born 8 June 1939) is a British and Polish historian, known for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom.
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Belarus and Norway are countries in Europe and member states of the United Nations.
November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire.
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Nuclear fallout
Nuclear fallout is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave has passed.
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Oblast
An oblast (plural oblasts, oblasti, or rarely oblasty; Russian and oblast'; voblasc'; oblast; oblys; oblus) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
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Oium
Oium was a name for Scythia, or a fertile part of it, roughly in modern Ukraine, where the Goths, under a legendary King Filimer, settled after leaving Gothiscandza, according to the Getica by Jordanes, written around 551.
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Okrestina
Okrestina Detention Centre, Akrestsina Detention Centre, officially, the Criminal Detention Centre of the Minsk Executive Committee’s Main Internal Affairs Directorate (Цэнтра ізаляцыі правапарушальнікаў ГУУС Мінгарвыканкама, Центр изоляции правонарушителей ГУВД Мингорисполкома), is a pre-trial detention centre in Minsk, Belarus.
Old Prussian language
Old Prussian is an extinct West Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages, which was once spoken by the Old Prussians, the Baltic peoples of the Prussian region.
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Ombudsman
An ombudsman (also), ombud, ombuds, bud, ombudswoman, ombudsperson, or public advocate is a government employee who investigates and tries to resolve complaints, usually through recommendations (binding or not) or mediation.
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Outline of Belarus
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Belarus: Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pannonian Avars
The Pannonian Avars were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins.
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Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.
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People's Coalition 5 Plus
The People's Coalition 5 Plus (Narodnaja Kaalicyja Piaciorka Plus) was a political alliance in Belarus, that opposed the regime of president Alexander Lukashenko.
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Personal union
A personal union is a combination of two or more monarchical states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. Belarus and Poland are countries in Europe, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Poles in Belarus
The Polish minority in Belarus (Polacy na Białorusi; Paliaki w Bielarusi) numbers officially 288,000 according to 2019 census.
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Polish Land Forces
The Land Forces are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.
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Polonization
Polonization or Polonisation (polonizacja)In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі рухна беларускіхі літоўскіхземлях.
Polotsk
Polotsk (Полоцк) or Polatsk (Polack) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
President of Belarus
The president of the Republic of Belarus (Prezident Respubliki Bielaruś; Prezident Respubliki Belarus') is the head of state and head of government of Belarus.
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.
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Prime Minister of Belarus
The prime minister of the Republic of Belarus is the deputy head of government of Belarus.
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Principality of Minsk
The Principality of Minsk was an appanage principality of the Principality of Polotsk and centered on the city of Minsk (today in Belarus).
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Principality of Moscow
The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.
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Principality of Polotsk
The Principality of Polotsk (obsolete spelling: Polock; Polackaje kniastva; Polocensis Ducatus), also known as the Duchy of Polotsk or Polotskian Rus', was a medieval principality.
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Pripyat (river)
The Pripyat or Prypiat is a river in Eastern Europe.
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Prix Benois de la Danse
The Benois de la Danse is a ballet competition held annually in Moscow.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Pyotr Masherov
Pyotr Mironovich Masherov (né Mashero; – 4 October 1980) was a Soviet partisan, statesman, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1965 until his death in 1980.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.
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Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states.
Rapeseed
Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of erucic acid.
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
Redenomination
In monetary economics, redenomination is the process of changing the face value of banknotes and coins in circulation.
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Regions of Belarus
At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six regions and one capital city.
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Reichskommissariat Ostland
The Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.
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Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.
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Republic of Central Lithuania
The Republic of Central Lithuania (Republika Litwy Środkowej), commonly known as the Central Lithuania, and the Middle Lithuania (Litwa Środkowa,, translit), was an unrecognized short-lived puppet state of Poland, that existed from 1920 to 1922.
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Republican Party of Labour and Justice
The Republican Party of Labour and Justice (RPTS; Respublikanskaya partiya truda i spravedlivosti; RPTS; Respublikanskaja partyja pracy i spraviadlivaści; RPPS) is a political party in Belarus founded by Ivan Antonovich in 1993.
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Republican Scientific Medical Library
The Republican Scientific Medical Library (RSML) plays a role in providing scientists and specialists, research institutions and medical and preventive treatment facilities, educational establishments and other healthcare facilities of the Republic of Belarus with information and library services.
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Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (r) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Rice University
Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Roman Dmowski
Roman Stanisław Dmowski (Polish:, 9 August 1864 – 2 January 1939) was a Polish politician, statesman, and co-founder and chief ideologue of the National Democracy (abbreviated "ND": in Polish, "Endecja") political movement.
Roman Golovchenko
Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko (born 10 August 1973) is a Belarusian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Belarus since 4 June 2020.
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Roman Protasevich
Roman Dmitriyevich Protasevich or Raman Dzmitryevich Pratasevich (born 5 May 1995) is a Belarusian blogger and political activist.
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Rostelecom
Rostelecom (Ростелеком) is Russia’s largest provider of digital services for a wide variety of consumers, households, private businesses, government and municipal authorities, and other telecom providers.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rule of law
The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.
Rurikids
The Rurik dynasty, also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. The Rurikids were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' and its principalities following its disintegration.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. Belarus and Russia are countries in Europe, member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and member states of the United Nations.
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
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Russian ruble
The ruble or rouble (rublʹ; symbol: ₽; abbreviation: руб or р. in Cyrillic, Rub in Latin; ISO code: RUB) is the currency of the Russian Federation.
Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Russians in Belarus
According to the 2019 census, there are 706,992 ethnic Russians in Belarus (Russkie v Belorussii; Ruskija w Biełarusi), which accounts for approximately 7.5 percent of the population of Belarus.
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Russification
Russification (rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language.
Ruthenia
Ruthenia is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Kievan Rus'.
Ruthenian language
Ruthenian (ру́скаꙗ мо́ва or ру́скїй ѧзы́къ; see also other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly those spoken from the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Ryanair Flight 4978
Ryanair Flight 4978 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Athens International Airport, Greece, to Vilnius Airport, Lithuania, operated by Buzz, a Polish subsidiary of the Irish airline Ryanair.
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Rye
Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.
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Samogitia
Samogitia, often known by its Lithuanian name Žemaitija (Samogitian: Žemaitėjė; see below for alternative and historical names) is one of the five cultural regions of Lithuania and formerly one of the two core administrative divisions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania alongside Lithuania proper.
Samogitian language
Samogitian (žemaitiu kalba or sometimes žemaitiu rokunda, žemaitiu šnekta or žemaitiu ruoda; žemaičių tarmė, žemaičių kalba), often considered a dialect of Lithuanian, is an Eastern Baltic language spoken primarily in Samogitia.
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Sarmatic mixed forests
The Sarmatic mixed forests constitute an ecoregion within the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature classification (ecoregion PA0436).
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Separation of powers
The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.
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Serfdom
Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems.
Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk
The International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", also known as Slavic Bazaar, is an annual festival held in Vitebsk, Belarus under the auspices of the Belarusian Government since 1992.
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Slavs
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.
Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia (SSRB; Sacyjalistyčnaja Savieckaja Respublika Biełaruś; Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Belorussiya / SSRB) was an early republic in the historical territory of Belarus for only one month in 1919 after the collapse of the Russian Empire as a result of the October Revolution.
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Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia
The Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia (SSR LiB), alternatively referred to as the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and White Russia or simply Litbel (Lit-Bel), was a Soviet republic that existed within the parts of the territories of modern Belarus and Lithuania for approximately five months during the Lithuanian–Soviet War and the Polish–Soviet War in 1919.
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South Ossetia
South Ossetia, officially the Republic of South Ossetia–State of Alania, is a partially recognised landlocked state in the South Caucasus. Belarus and South Ossetia are landlocked countries.
Sovereignty
Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.
Soviet annexation of Western Belorussia
On the basis of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, capturing the eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic.
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Soviet Armed Forces
The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
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Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.
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Soviet partisans
Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland.
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Soviet ruble
The ruble or rouble (p) was the currency of the Soviet Union.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Sovietization
Sovietization (sovyetizatsiya) is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modeled after the Soviet Union.
Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko (May 5, 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher.
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Stanislav Shushkevich
Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich (15 December 1934 – 3 May 2022) was a Belarusian politician and scientist.
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State ownership
State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party.
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State-owned enterprise
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.
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Statutes of Lithuania
The Statutes of Lithuania, originally known as the Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, were a 16th-century codification of all the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its successor, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Stew
A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy.
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Struve Geodetic Arc
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc.
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Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
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Supreme Council of Belarus
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus (Вярхоўны Савет Рэспублікі Беларусь) was the unicameral legislature of Belarus between 1991 and 1996.
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Supreme Court of Belarus
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is the highest-tier court inside of Belarus and acts as the final "court of review." Its general tasks include the oversight of lower-tier courts and it can render justice in areas of general civil and criminal law.
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Supreme Soviet
The Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian.
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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Sviatlana Hieorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya (born 11 September 1982) is a Belarusian political activist.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. Belarus and Syria are member states of the United Nations.
Tata Communications
Tata Communications Limited (previously known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited) is an Indian telecommunications company.
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Tatars
The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.
Telephone numbers in Belarus
Belarus began using its own country code +375 in 1995, replacing the +7 international country code inherited from the Soviet Union.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The tennis tournaments at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were staged at the All England Club in Wimbledon, from 28 July to 5 August.
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Term of office
A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office.
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Teutonic Order
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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The Economist Democracy Index
The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Week
The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.
The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Polish–Lithuanian national sovereignty until 1918.
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy David Snyder (born August 18, 1969) is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
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Treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, which followed months of negotiations after the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917, was signed at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus).
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Tsar
Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.
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Types of tennis match
Traditionally, tennis is played between two people in a singles match, or two pairs in a doubles match.
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Uładzimir Žyłka
Uladzimir Zhylka (Уладзімір Жылка; 27 May 1900, in Makaszy near Nesvizh, Russian Empire – 1 March 1933) was a Belarusian poet.
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UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. Belarus and Ukraine are countries in Europe, member states of the United Nations and republics.
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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Ukrainians
Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.
Ukrainians in Poland
Ukrainians in Poland (Ukraintsi Polshchi; Ukraińcy w Polsce) have various legal statuses: ethnic minority, temporary and permanent residents, and refugees.
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Uladzimir Karatkievich
Uladzimir Karatkievich (Уладзімір Сямёнавіч Караткевіч; Владимир Семёнович Короткевич) (26 November 1930 – 25 July 1984) was a Belarusian romantic writer.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Union of Brest
The Union of Brest took place in 1595-1596 and represented an agreement by Eastern Orthodox Churches in the Ruthenian portions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to accept the Pope's authority while maintaining Eastern Orthodox liturgical practices, leading to the formation of the Ruthenian Uniate Church, which currently exists as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church.
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Union of Krewo
In a strict sense, the Union of Krewo or Act of Krėva (also spelled Union of Krevo, Act of Kreva; unia w Krewie; Krėvos sutartis.) comprised a set of prenuptial promises made at Kreva Castle on 14 August 1385 by Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, in regard to his prospective marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
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Union of Lublin
The Union of Lublin (Unia lubelska; Liublino unija) was signed on 1 July 1569 in Lublin, Poland, and created a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest countries in Europe at the time.
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Union State
The Union State of Russia and Belarus, officially also referred to as Union State, is a supranational union consisting of Belarus and Russia, with the stated aim of deepening the relationship between the two states through integration in economic and defence policy.
United Civic Party
The United Civic Party (UCP; Abjadnanaja hramadzianskaja partyja; AHP; Obyedinonnaya grazhdanskaya partiya; OGP) is a banned liberal-conservative and liberal political party in Belarus.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. Belarus and United Kingdom are countries in Europe and member states of the United Nations.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. Belarus and United States are member states of the United Nations.
University of Eastern Finland
The University of Eastern Finland (Itä-Suomen yliopisto) is a university in Finland founded in 2010 with campuses in Joensuu and Kuopio.
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Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019.
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Vasil Bykaŭ
Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Василь Влади́мирович Быков; 19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II.
Vasil Kiryienka
Vasili Vasilyevich Kiryienka (Васіль Васілевіч Кірыенка; Łacinka: Vasil Vasilevič Kiryjenka; born 28 June 1981) is a Belarusian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2020 for the OTC Doors,,, and squads.
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Victoria Azarenka
Victoria Fiodaraŭna Azarenka (born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player.
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Victory Day (9 May)
Victory Day День Победы, Deň Pobedy Дзень Перамогі Dzěň Pěramohi Ғалаба куни, Gʻalaba kuni/Ğalaba Kuni Жеңіс Күні, Jeñis Küni გამარჯვების დღე, Gamarjvebis dğe Qələbə Günü Ziua Victoriei Жеңиш майрамы Ceñiş Mayramı Рӯзи Ғалаба, Rúzi Calaba Հաղթանակի օրը, Haqtanaki orë Ýeňişlar Harçlaarsiň is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945.
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Viktar Hanchar
Viktar Hanchar, or Viktar Hančar (Віктар Ганчар, Виктор Гончар, Viktor Gonchar, September 7, 1957 – disappeared September 16, 1999) was a Belarusian politician who disappeared and was presumably murdered in 1999.
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Viktor Khrenin
Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin (born 1 August 1971) is a Belarusian senior military officer and the current minister of defense since 2020.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič (Вінцэнт (Вінцук) Дунін-Марцінкевіч; Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz; February 8, 1808 – December 21, 1884) was a Polish-Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school theatre.
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Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.
Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.
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VSNL International Canada
VSNL International Canada or Tata Communications (Canada) ULC (formerly Teleglobe) is an international telco carrier.
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Vyacheslav Kebich
Vyacheslav Frantsevich Kebich (10 June 1936 – 9 December 2020) was a Belarusian politician and the first Prime Minister of Belarus from 1991 to 1994.
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Władysław II Jagiełło
Jogaila (1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło,He is known under a number of names: Jogaila Algirdaitis; Władysław II Jagiełło; Jahajła (Ягайла).
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Western Belorussia
Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (translit; Zachodnia Białoruś; translit) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.
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White Ruthenia
White Ruthenia (Biełaja Ruś; Ruś Biała; Belaya Rus'; Bila Ruś) is one of the historical divisions of Kievan Rus' according to the color scheme, which also includes Black and Red Ruthenia.
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Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Press Freedom Index
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World War II casualties of the Soviet Union
World War II losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000 both civilian and military from all war-related causes, although exact figures are disputed.
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Yakub Kolas
Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Яку́б Ко́лас, – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, Константи́н Миха́йлович Мицке́вич) was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator.
Yanka Kupala
Yanka Kupala (Янка Купала; – 28 June 1942), was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (Іван Дамінікавіч Луцэвіч, Иван Доминикович Луцевич), a Belarusian poet and writer.
Yaroslav the Wise
Yaroslav I Vladimirovich (978 – 20 February 1054), better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054.
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Yiddish
Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
Yiddish dialects
Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness.
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Yotvingians
Yotvingians (also called: Sudovians, Jatvians, or Jatvingians; Yotvingian: Jotvingai; Jotvingiai,; Jātvingi; Jaćwingowie, Яцвягі, Sudauer) were a Western Baltic people who were closely tied to the Old Prussians.
Zarubintsy culture
The Zarubintsy, Zarubyntsi or Zarubinets culture was a culture that, from the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD, flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper and middle Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Southern Bug river.
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.by
.by is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belarus.
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.бел
.бел (abbreviation of translit) is an approved internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) for Belarus.
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12th Belarusian Supreme Soviet
The Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus of the 12th convocation is the Belarusian parliament, which was elected in 1990 as the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR of the 12th convocation.
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15min
15min is one of the largest news websites in Lithuania, attracting over one million unique users per month.
1922 Republic of Central Lithuania general election
The general election in the Republic of Central Lithuania was an election to the Vilnius Sejm (parliament) of the Polish-dominated Republic of Central Lithuania on 8 January 1922.
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1991 Belarusian strikes
The 1991 Belarusian strikes, also referred to in Belarus as the April Strikes (translit), were a series of nationwide strikes and rallies in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus).
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1994 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 23 June 1994, with a second round on 10 July.
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1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (De 17.; Dei 17.) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
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1995 Belarusian referendum
A four-question referendum was held in Belarus on 14 May 1995, alongside parliamentary elections.
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1996 Belarusian referendum
A seven-question referendum was held in Belarus on 24 November 1996.
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1st Lithuanian–Belarusian Division
The 1st Lithuanian–Belarusian Division (1., 1.DL-B; 1-ая Літоўска-Беларуская дывізія; 1-oji Lietuvos-Baltarusijos divizija) was a volunteer unit of the Polish Army formed around December 1918 and January 1919 during the Polish–Soviet War.
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1st millennium
The first millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1 to 1000 (1st to 10th centuries; in astronomy: JD &ndash). The world population rose more slowly than during the preceding millennium, from about 200 million in the year 1 to about 300 million in the year 1000.
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2001 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001.
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2004 Belarusian constitutional referendum
A referendum on allowing President Lukashenko to stand in further elections was held in Belarus on 17 October 2004, alongside parliamentary elections.
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2004 Belarusian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 17 October 2004, with a second round of voting in two constituencies on 27 October, and a third round in one on 20 March 2005.
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2004 Russia–Belarus energy dispute
The 2004 Russia–Belarus energy dispute was a commercial and diplomatic dispute between Russia and Belarus that escalated in January 2004.
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2006 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 March 2006.
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2007 Russia–Belarus energy dispute
The Russia–Belarus energy dispute began when Russian state-owned gas supplier Gazprom demanded an increase in gas prices paid by Belarus, a country which has been closely allied with Moscow and forms a loose union state with Russia.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2010 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010.
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2011 Minsk Metro bombing
The 2011 Minsk Metro bombing took place on 11 April 2011 when 15 people were killed and 204 were injured when a bomb exploded within the Minsk Metro, Belarus.
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2012 Belarusian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 23 September 2012.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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2014 IIHF World Championship
The 2014 IIHF World Championship was hosted by Belarus in its capital, Minsk, held from 9 to 25 May 2014.
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2014 Winter Olympics
The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (Сочи 2014), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
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2015 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 11 October 2015.
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2015 UCI Road World Championships – Men's time trial
The Men's time trial of the 2015 UCI Road World Championships is a cycling event that took place on September 23, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26, 27 and 29 August.
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2020 Belarusian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020.
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2020–2021 Belarusian protests
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko.
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2021 IIHF World Championship
The 2021 IIHF World Championship took place from 21 May to 6 June 2021.
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2021 UEC European Track Championships
2021 UEC European Track Championships was the twelfth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, from 5 to 9 October 2021.
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23rd meridian east
The meridian 23° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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33rd meridian east
The meridian 33° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Turkey, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
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51st parallel north
The 51st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 51 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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57th parallel north
The 57th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 57 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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See also
Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
- Armenia
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Russia
- Tajikistan
Member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Member states of the Eurasian Economic Union
- Armenia
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Russia
States and territories established in the 980s
- Belarus
- County of Guînes
- County of Namur
- Duchy of Orléans
- Early Lê dynasty
- Fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of France
- Kingdom of Syunik
- Maghrawa
- Mark an der Sann
- Prince-Bishopric of Liège
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