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Belarus Today [a] (Russian: Беларусь Сегодня) is a state run publisher in Belarus; it controls numerous media entities such as their current namesake publication Belarus Today. [1] [2] It was named Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya previously.
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million.
Zviazda (Звязда, 40,000 copies) , the largest state-controlled Belarusian language newspaper.; Novy Chas (Новы Час, 7,000 copies [2]) ; Nasha Slova (Наша Слова, 7,000 copies [2]), newspaper about culture and history, published by the Francishak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society
Belarus was once a major center of European Jews, with 10% of the population being Jewish. But since the mid-20th century, the number of Jews has been reduced by the Holocaust, deportation, and emigration, so that today it is a very small minority of less than one percent. [270] The Lipka Tatars, numbering over 15,000, are predominantly Muslims.
Belarusian culture is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians (the merger of Slavic newcomers with Baltic natives); the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions ...
Belarus said on Wednesday that police had fired live rounds at protesters in the city of Brest and arrested more than 1,000 people nationwide, intensifying a crackdown that has prompted the ...
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko welcomed Wagner forces into the country
Belarus 2 (Belarusian: Беларусь 2) is a state-owned television channel in Belarus. It is an educational and entertainment service created in 2003 by Belteleradio, which until 2011 carried the name LAD (ЛАД). The channel broadcasts in both Belarusian and Russian languages.