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There is a public debate in Belarus regarding the appropriate date to be considered Independence Day. [2] Since the early 1920s, various Belarusian political movements and the Belarusian diaspora have been celebrating Independence Day on 25 March as the anniversary of the 1918 declaration of independence by the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
Freedom Day (Belarusian: Дзень Волі, romanized: Dzień Voli; Russian: День Воли, romanized: Den' voli) is an unofficial holiday in Belarus celebrated on 25 March to commemorate the declaration of independence by the Belarusian Democratic Republic by the Third Constituent Charter on that date in 1918.
Passed on July 27th, 1990, the declaration started the process of Belarus' eventual independence on August 25th, 1991. It effectively renamed the Byelorussian SSR to the Republic of Belarus and established the basis for all state symbols, such as the national flag and coat of arms, the national anthem, and the national colors.
1-2 January – New Year's Day; 7 January – Christmas (Orthodox) 8 March – International Women's Day; 29 April – Radonitsa Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 9 May – Victory Day; 3 July – Independence Day; 17 September – National Unity Day; 7 November – October Revolution Day; 25 December – Christmas (Catholic)
Emigration sticker with the Pahonia for Independence Day, 1948. The Third Constituent Charter (Belarusian: Трэцяя Ўстаўная грамата, romanized: Treciaja Ŭstaŭnaja hramata) is a legal act adopted by the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic on 25 March 1918 in Minsk (in Malin's house), according to which the Belarusian People's Republic was proclaimed an independent ...
A seven-question referendum was held in Belarus on 24 November 1996. [1] Four questions were put forward by Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, on changing the date of the country's independence day, amending the constitution of Belarus, changing laws on the sale of land and the abolition of the death penalty.
The parliament of the republic proclaimed the sovereignty of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus gained independence on 25 August 1991. Following the adoption of a new constitution in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko was elected Belarus's first president in the country's first and only free election after ...
Belarus received independence on 25 December 1991. A day later the Soviet Union ceased to exist. However, the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Republic of Belarus of 1978, was retained after independence.