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its provisions. It was emphasized that the Budapest memorandum of 1994 has a particular importance for our country. This document contains trilateral security assurances provided in connection with the Belarusian accession to the NPT and voluntary refusal of Belarus from the right to possess with nuclear weapons. Budapest Memorandum registered in the UN as an international treaty.
1968:'s secret protocol, Western Byelorussia, which was part of Poland, is included in the BSSR. Similarly to the times of German occupation during World War I, Belarusian language and Soviet culture enjoyed relative prosperity in this short period. Already in October 1940, over 75% of schools used the Belarusian language, also in the regions where no Belarus people lived, e.g. around 2187:
Russia, with several spectacular exceptions, were not returned to Belarus after 1945. During the immediate postwar period, the Soviet Union first rebuilt and then expanded the BSSR's economy, with control always exerted exclusively from Moscow. During this time, Belarus became a major center of manufacturing in the western region of the USSR. Huge industrial objects like the
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was reduced as a result of the 1930 elections. Since the early 1930s, the Polish government introduced a set of policies designed to Polonize all minorities (Belarusians, Ukrainians, Jews, etc.). The usage of Belarusian language was discouraged and the Belarusian schools were facing severe financial
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In particular, it was pointed out that Belarus considers the NPT as a fundamental legally binding international instrument in the framework of the existing architecture of international security. The Belarusian party is in favor of further strengthening the Treaty and balanced implementation of all
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and destroyed all the food supplies. The country suffered particularly heavily during the fighting and the German occupation. Minsk was captured by the Germans on 28 June 1941. Following bloody encirclement battles, all of the present-day Belarus territory was occupied by the Germans by the end of
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regime, burning down some 9,000 Belarusian villages, deporting some 380,000 people for slave labour, and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians more. Local police took part in many of those crimes. Almost the whole, previously very numerous, Jewish populations of Belarus that did not evacuate
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In such circumstances, a vibrant Ruthenian culture flourished, mostly in the major cities of present-day Belarus. Despite the legal usage of the Ruthenian language, which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, literature was mostly non-existent, apart
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The Belarusian economy was completely devastated by the events of the war. Most of the industry, including whole production plants were removed either to Russia or Germany. Industrial production of Belarus in 1945 amounted for less than 20% of its pre-war size. Most of the factories evacuated to
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emerged. Hiding in the woods and swamps, the partisans inflicted heavy damage to German supply lines and communications, disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps and transports and ambushing German soldiers. Not all anti-German partisans were
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debris that drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia. Large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of roughly 200,000 people. About 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus. The
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in 1945 when Roosevelt and Stalin agreed that the veto would not prevent discussions by the Security Council. Roosevelt agreed to General Assembly membership for Ukraine and Byelorussia while reserving the right, which was never exercised, to seek two more votes for the United
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in 1240, leaving a geopolitical vacuum in the region. The East Slavs had splintered into a number of independent and competing principalities. Due to military conquest and dynastic marriages, the western principalities of Rus' in modern Belarus were acquired by the expanding
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took place on 8 January 1922, and the territory was annexed to Poland. Żeligowski later in his memoir which was published in London in 1943 condemned the annexation of Republic by Poland, as well as the policy of closing Belarusian schools and general disregard of Marshal
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were built in the country. The increase in jobs resulted in a huge immigrant population of Russians in Belarus. Russian became the official language of administration and the peasant class, which traditionally was the base for Belarusian nation, ceased to exist.
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were dramatic: about 50,000 km (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
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was a short-lived political entity, which was the last attempt to restore Lithuania in the historical confederacy state (it was also supposed to create Lithuania Upper and Lithuania Lower). The republic was created in 1920 following
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The Lithuanians' smaller numbers in this medieval state gave the Ruthenians (later Belarusians and Ukrainians) an important role in the everyday cultural life of the state. Owing to the prevalence of East Slavs and the
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was launched, Minsk was re-captured on 3 July 1944, and all of Belarus was regained by the end of August. Hundred thousand of Poles were expelled after 1944. As part of the Nazis' effort to combat the enormous
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granted the Orthodox clergy an autonomy previously enjoyed only by Catholic clergy. The privilege was enhanced in 1531, when the Orthodox church was no longer responsible to the Catholic bishop and instead the
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problems. In spring of 1939, there already was neither single Belarusian official organisation in Poland nor a single exclusively Belarusian school (with only 44 schools teaching Belarusian language left).
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In total, Belarus lost a quarter of its pre-war population in World War II including practically all its intellectual elite. About 9,200 villages and 1.2 million houses were destroyed. The major towns of
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in Moscow, Belarus declared full independence from the USSR by granting the declaration of state sovereignty a constitutional status that it did not have before. On 8 December 1991, Shushkevich met with
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the territories of Belarus would witness the struggle of various national and foreign factions. On 3 December 1918 the Germans withdrew from Minsk. On 10 December 1918 Soviet troops occupied Minsk. The
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in 1480. On the other hand, further unification of the mostly Orthodox Grand Duchy with mostly Catholic Poland led to liberalization and a partial solving of the religious problem. In 1511, King and
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as compared to 46 representatives from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. However, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania retained significant autonomy, and was governed by a separate code of laws called the
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With time, the ethnic pattern did not evolve much. Throughout their existence as a separate culture, Ruthenians formed in most cases the rural population, with power held by the local
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lost over 80% of their buildings and city infrastructure. For the defence against the Germans, and the tenacity during the German occupation, the capital Minsk was awarded the title
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clans being the most notable), whose personal fortunes and properties often surpassed those of the royal families and were huge enough to be called a state within a state.
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movement. This led to a series of conflicts and rebellions against the local authorities. The first of such happened in 1595, when the Cossack insurgents under
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were destroyed. To fight partisan activity, the Germans had to withdraw considerable forces behind their front line. On 22 June 1944 the huge Soviet offensive
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The frontiers between Poland, which had established an independent government after World War I, and the former Russian Empire were not recognized by the
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nomads (in Ukraine) already living there, their early ethnic integrations contributed to the gradual differentiation of the East Slavs. These East Slavs,
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on 1 September cited more than 450 documented cases of torture and ill-treatment of detainees, as well as reports of sexual abuse and rape. Several
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were created until 1919 when they were banned again by the Polish military administration. At the end of World War I, when Belarus was still
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This period of political breakdown and reorganization also saw the rise of written local vernaculars in place of the literary and liturgical
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The Principality of Polotsk repeatedly asserted its sovereignty in relation to the other centers of Rus', becoming a political capital, the
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federation as a Central and East European bloc that would be a bulwark against Germany to the west and Russia to the east, carried out a
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Strangers at Home: Memorialisation of the Armia Krajowa in Belarus, Iryna Kashtalian, Imre Kertész Kolleg's Cultures of History Forum
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On 27 July 1990, Belarus declared its national sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the Soviet Union. Around that time,
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recognized the Soviet Union's western borders on 15 March 1923. The Soviets terrorised Western Belarus, the most radical case being
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allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Soviet authorities immediately evacuated about 20% of the population of Belarus,
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Björn Wiemer. "Dialect and language contacts on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 15th century until 1939".
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and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, were arrested by authorities. In summer of the same year, Belarusian authorities organized the
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Belarusian Historical Review. Independent Academic Journal dedicated to history of Belarus (Belarusian and English versions)
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Construction of Orthodox churches in some parts of present-day Belarus had been initially prohibited, as was the case in
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to become an influential player in European politics and the largest multinational state in Europe. While present-day
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in presidential elections which were again described as falsified by most EU countries and organizations such as the
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Signatures on the Budapest Memorandum for security assurances to Belarus in exchange for national denuclearization
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in elections described as undemocratic by Western observers. At the same time, the west began criticizing him as
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policies (especially in the 1930s), while the Soviet Belarus was one of the original republics which formed the
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and executed Polish magistrates there. Other such clashes took place in Mogilev (1606–10), Vitebsk (1623), and
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into Ukraine in 1920. This met with a Red Army counter-offensive that drove into Polish territory almost to
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enacted in early 1994 paved the way for the first democratic presidential election on 23 June and 10 July.
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Voting procedures and the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council were finalized at the
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among children increased fifteenfold (the sharp rise started in about four years after the accident).
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In the 13th century, the fragile unity of Kievan Rus' disintegrated due to nomadic incursions from
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pro-Soviet. In the largest partisan sabotage action of the entire Second World War, the so-called
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Despite these conflicts, the literary tradition of Belarus evolved. Until the 17th century, the
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consisting of an influx of tens of thousands of immigrants, primarily from Iraqi Kurdistan, to
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Also, with time religious conflicts started to arise. The gentry with time started to adopt
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in 1933 and use of Belarusian language was discouraged as exhibiting anti-soviet attitude.
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resulted in amendments to the constitution that removed key powers from the parliament.
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in 1432–36 — relied on the Eastern Orthodox Ruthenian majority, while most monarchs and
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returned to Belarus, joining Belarusian anti-Soviet units, the "Green Oak" (in Polish,
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The Language Rights of National Minorities in the Second Republic of Poland, 1918–1939
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was marked by numerous attempts to spread Catholicism, mostly through his support for
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in the 15th century. The territory of modern-day Belarus was fully within its borders.
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Since the early days of the occupation, a powerful and increasingly well-coordinated
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Archaeological discoveries show what is now Belarus had human inhabitants during the
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The SS Hunter Battalions: The Hidden History of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-45
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was declared on 31 July 1920. Piłsudski, however, halted the Soviet advance at the
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as a result of the war. Belarus became an independent state in 1991 following the
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Uprawnienia językowe mniejszości narodowych w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918–1939
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was declared. On 17 February 1919 it was disbanded. Part of it was included into
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After the end of War in 1945, Belarus became one of the founding members of the
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the national cultures were repressed due to the policies of de-Polonization and
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The Baltic States: Years of Independence – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, 1917–40
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faith among the population in eastern and southern regions of the state, the
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Under Russian administration, the territory of Belarus was divided into the
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Andrew Savchenko, Belarus: A Perpetual Borderland, page 135, BRILL, 2009,
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in 1861 and the construction of railways in the late 19th century (with
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U.S. no longer recognizes Lukashenko as legitimate president of Belarus
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situated close to the border with Belarus. It is regarded as the worst
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tens of thousands people of many nationalities were killed. Belarusian
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language, a further stage in the evolving differentiation between the
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people, had an economy which included trade in agricultural produce,
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to infiltrate the Soviet rear. In 1944 thirty Belarusians (known as
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against the Nazis occurred in 1942 in Belarus, in the small town of
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Vossoyedineniye uniatov i istoričeskiye sud'bi Belorusskogo naroda
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More than 200,000 ethnic Poles left or were expelled to Poland in
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increasingly came to reflect the opinions of the Roman Catholics.
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Position of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Eastern Europe until 1434
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started to flourish. German administration allowed schools with
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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diversion of 30 July 1943 four German trains with supplies and
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uprisings of the gentry were subdued by the government forces.
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in the 18th century, Belarusian territories became part of the
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in presidential elections again criticized as flawed by most
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family and Russian aristocracy. Belarusian representation in
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was probably formed on the basis of the three Slavic tribes—
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territory, and for the next few years in the newly created
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Index

Belarusian history
a series
History of Belarus
Early Slavs
Kievan Rus'
Principality of Polotsk
Principality of Turov
Golden Horde
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Early Modern
Early elective monarchy
Deluge and decline
Three partitions
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Russian Empire
Belarusian People's Republic
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
West Belarus
Republic of Belarus
Belarus portal
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Belarus
Middle Ages
Kievan Rus'
principalities
Polotsk
Turov

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