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In western Belarus, under Polish control until World War II, Byelorussia became commonly used in the regions of Białystok and Grodno. [10] Upon the establishment of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920, the term Byelorussia (its names in other languages such as English being based on the Russian form) was only used officially.
German troops in Lyntupy (Vitebsk Region) in 1916. During the First World War (1914-1918), the territory of Belarus became the scene of active hostilities. Since the beginning of the war in Baranovichi, and since August 8 (21), 1915 - in Mogilev, the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander was located.
The modern Republic of Belarus exists since then. Belarusians in Minsk protest against the government, 23 August 2020. More than two million people were killed in Belarus during the three years of German occupation in 1941–44, around a quarter of the region's population, [50] or even as high as three million killed or thirty percent of the ...
A United Nations panel of human rights experts called on Belarus to release the Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of the country's most respected rights group, who has been behind bars for three ...
The effects of the Chernobyl accident in Belarus were dramatic: about 50,000 km 2 (or about a quarter of the territory of Belarus) formerly populated by 2.2 million people (or a fifth of the Belarusian population) now require permanent radioactive monitoring (after receiving doses over 37 kBq/m 2 of caesium-137). 135,000 persons were ...
Belarus, like Russia, came to be seen as an enemy of freedom, democracy and peace. “Of course, we advocate for as much military support for Ukraine as possible,” Kavaleuski told Yahoo News.
The 58 signatories include literature prize winners Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, J.M. Coetzee, Herta Müller, and peace prize laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Oscar Arias, Jody Williams ...
The October Revolution and the Establishment of Belarusian Statehood, [1] Belarusian-Bolshevik conflict, [2] Conflict between the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress and Oblispolkom, [3] Bolshevik coup d'état in Belarus [4] — political and military confrontation between units in favour of the Great Belarusian Rada and subordinated to the Central Belarusian Military Rada (CWBR) on the one ...