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Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Дзень Незалежнасці Рэспублікі Беларусь, Russian: 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.
However, this has not resulted in a fundamental change of the actual language policy in Belarus. [14] In the Belarusian population censuses of 1999 and 2009 respondents were asked about their native language and about the language they usually speak at home. In 1999 85.6% of the citizens with Belarusian nationality declared Belarusian, 14.3% ...
In Poland, the Belarusian language is declared as a "language spoken at home" by about 40,000 inhabitants [16] According to a study done by the Belarusian government in 2009, 72% of Belarusians speak Russian at home, while Belarusian is actively used by only 11.9% of Belarusians (others speak a mixture of Russian and Belarusian, known as ...
Russia under the czars and in the era of the Soviet Union imposed its language, symbols and cultural institutions on Belarus. But with the demise of the USSR in 1991 , the country began to assert its identity, and Belarusian briefly became the official language, with the white-red-white national flag replacing a version of the red hammer and ...
3 July: Independence Day: Дзень Незалежнасцi (Dzień Niezaležnasci) Adopted in 1996, in commemoration of the Red Army's 1944 liberation of Minsk during the Minsk Offensive: 7 November: October Revolution Day: Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі (Dzień Kastryčnickaj revalucyi) 25 December: Christmas Day
Corps of Drums of the Minsk Suvorov Military School [4] [5]; Cadets from specialized military high schools (25 from the MES, 30 from the MVD and 50 from the army) [6]; Color guard carrying the Flag of Belarus, the Flag of the USSR, the Victory Banner, and the banners of the 1st Belarusian Front, the 2nd Belarusian Front, the 3rd Belarusian Front and the 1st Baltic Front.
Source: [2] [3] 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)
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...