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Uładzimier Arłou in 2010 Uładzimir Arłou's signature. Uładzimir Arłou, known as U. A. Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Аляксеевіч Арлоў, Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Орлов, romanized: Vladimir Aljakseevich Orlov; born 25 August 1953 in Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet. [1]
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.
Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (Belarusian: Заходняя Беларусь, romanized: Zachodniaja Biełaruś; Polish: Zachodnia Białoruś; Russian: Западная Белоруссия, romanized: Zapadnaya Belorussiya) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.
Thereafter, modern Belarus' territory was split between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia during the Peace of Riga in 1921. The latter created the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , which was reunited with Western Belarus during World War 2 and lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union , which was ended by the Belovezh ...
Last weekend Lukashenko pardoned the latest batch of 23 people convicted of "extremist" activity in what state media called a humanitarian gesture, bringing the number of such releases to 250 ...
Classification: People: By nationality: Belarusian also: Countries : Belarus : People For a number of reasons, until the end of the 20th century, people of Belarus were known to the world as representatives of other nations: as Poles , Russians , or Litvins , with rare exceptions.
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 Insulted.Belarus Worldwide Readings Project is a program of dramatic readings that expresses international solidarity with the people of Belarus.Insulted. Belarus is a play by Andrei Kureichik that highlights corruption and cruelty during the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, specifically in the early days of the 2020-2021 Belarusian protests, and depicts the Belarusian people as ...