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2 days ago · Belarus, landlocked country of eastern Europe. Until it became independent in 1991, Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union (the larger two being Russia and Ukraine ).
20 hours ago · The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were a series of mass political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko.
2 days ago · The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has a new member – Belarus. Minsk on Thursday joined the grouping dominated by China and Russia during the 24th SCO summit in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. Belarus joined India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as the 10th member of the bloc.
2 days ago · Belarus - Soviet Socialist Republic, Emergence, History: Belarusian nationalist and revolutionary stirrings had been evident at least since the Russian Revolution of 1905, when peasants joined the uprising against the monarchy.
2 days ago · Belarus - Soviet Union, WWII, Independence: The Belarusian region has a long history of human settlement. Archaeology has provided evidence of Upper Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) cultures, and Neolithic (New Stone Age) remains are widespread.
3 days ago · belarus. Citizens and civil society critical of the Belarussian authorities face worsening repression, arbitrary detention, ill-treatment and harassment, nearly four years since widespread public...
2 days ago · The National Historical Archives of Belarus was founded in 1919 as an archival repository of the Mogilev Archival Bureau, and it was then located in the city of Mogilev. In 1924, the repository was reorganized as a district archives, and in 1927 as the Mogilev Historical Archives.
