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	Belarus - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Belorussian is an East Slavic language, a subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Except for certain small areas allocated to Poland, the 1939 political boundaries of the Belorussian SSR were confirmed by the terms of the treaty between Poland and the USSR in 1945.
		In January 2000 the Belorussian currency was redenominated, with 1,000 old roubles replaced with one new rouble; this had followed the introduction of 1 million and 5 million rouble notes the previous year.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761553191__1/Belarus.html (4843 words)

	Belarus - HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The population of the Belorussian SSR was jolted into national awareness in the late 1980s with the occurrence of one disaster and the discovery of another.
		The territory of the Belorussian SSR was enlarged in both 1924 and 1926 by the addition of Belorussian ethnographic regions that had become part of Russia under the Treaty of Riga.
		The Belorussians lost their last seat in the Polish Sejm in the general elections of 1935, and the legislation that guaranteed the right of minority communities to have their own schools was repealed in November 1938.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/belarus/HISTORY.html (3651 words)

	Belarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Although the tsarist government regarded the Belorussians as well as the Ukrainians as another branch of Russians, not as a separate nation, the Belorussian language was registered in the first systematic census of the Russian Empire in 1897.
		In the early 1920s, Belorussian language and culture flourished, and the language was promoted as the official medium of the communist party and the government as well as of scholarly, scientific, and educational establishments.
		The Belorussian SSR had imported the bulk of its raw materials, components, and energy from the Soviet Union and exported most of what it produced (much of it for the military-industrial complex) back to the Soviet Union.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/belarus/all.html (17166 words)

	State and Power in Russia
		As chairman of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of Belorussian SSR (December 18, 1920 - March 17, 1924), he was involved in creation of the Soviet Union.
		Chervyakov represented the Belorussian communists at seven party congresses in Moscow, but he never was elected to the party Central Committee.
		Chervyakov was severely criticized at the 16th congress of the Communist Party of Belorussia in June 1937 for insufficient efforts in extermination of "enemies of the people." Expecting his dismissal and further imprisonment, Aleksandr Chervyakov committed suicide in his working room during the break between the congress' meetings on June 16, 1937.
	state.rin.ru /cgi-bin/persona_e.pl?id=10693&id_subcat=7&r=0 (336 words)

	Belarus History
		In the 13th century, Belorussian lands were added to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		In 1920 the eastern region of Belarus became the Belorussian SSR (part of the Soviet Union) and the western region was occupied by Poland after the Polish Soviet war.
		The end of the USSR was hastened by the strife of the Belorussian workers.
	www.angelfire.com /bc3/classybutsassy/belarus.htm (172 words)

	Belarus - World War and Revolution
		The Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belorussian SSR) was established on January 1, 1919, by force of arms.
		For the next two years, Belorussia was a prize in the PolishSoviet War, a conflict settled by the Treaty of Riga in March 1921.
		The Belorussian SSR was incorporated into the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union was founded in December 1922.
	countrystudies.us /belarus/8.htm (710 words)

	Belarus - MSN Encarta
		In December 1922 the Belorussian SSR, then only a fraction of its former size, became a constituent, founding republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		By the terms of a nonaggression treaty between the USSR and Germany, the Hrodna, Brest, and western part of Minsk provinces were annexed from Poland in September 1939, nearly doubling the size of Belorussia.
		The Belorussian republic was permitted to develop culturally through the 1920s.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553191_8/Belarus.html (1285 words)

	Operation Bagration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During World War II, Operation Bagration was the general offensive by Soviet forces to clear the Nazis from Belorussian SSR, which resulted in the destruction of the German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat for the Wehrmacht during the war.
		The operation was named after 18th-19th century Russian general Pyotr Bagration, who died at the Battle of Borodino.
		The capital of Belorussian SSR, Minsk, was taken on July 3, trapping fifty thousand Germans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Bagration (852 words)

	Soviet Union
		The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
		Revolutionary activity in Russia began with the Decembrist Revolt, uncovered in 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries.
		One republic, Karelo-Finnish SSR, was disbanded in 1956.
	soviet-union.ask.dyndns.dk (4275 words)

	Belarus - Chapter 1. Belarus
		NINETEENTH CENTURY 1839 Tsar Nicholas I abolishes Uniate Church and forces Uniates (three-quarters of Belorussians are members of Uniate Church) to reconvert to Orthodoxy; bans use of name "Belorussia" and replaces it with name "Northwest Territory." 1861 Serfdom is abolished in Russian Empire.
		1990 June Supreme Soviet of Belorussian SSR adopts Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic; Belarusian is declared the official language.
		Supreme Soviet of Belorussian SSR declares independence on August 25 and changes name of country to Republic of Belarus.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-1244.html (528 words)

	netcyclo: Belarus: History
		Official business was conducted in a Slavic language (a predecessor of both Belorussian and Ukrainian) based on Old Church Slavonic (see Glossary), and the law code was based on that of Kievan Rus'.
		Bolshevism did not have many followers among the natives of Belorussia; instead, local political life was dominated by the Socialist Revolutionary Party, the Mensheviks (see Glossary), the Bund (see Glossary), and various Christian movements in which the clergy of both the Russian Orthodox Church and the Polish Catholic Church played significant roles.
		The Belorussian SSR was incorporated into the Soviet Union (see Glossary) when the Soviet Union was founded in December 1922 (see fig.
	www.netcyclo.com /places/polit/nations/belarus/be-his.htm (3557 words)

	Anthems of 15 Union republics
		The music of the anthem of Kazakh SSR was used, with a new lyrics, as the anthem of Kazakhstan until January 2006.
		The current anthem of Azerbaijan and the anthem of Azerbaijan SSR are by the same composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov.
		All of the former SSRs (Soviet Socialist Republics) are represented, along with the famous USSR anthem which was banished for a time under Boris Yeltsin but now (with new lyrics) lives again as the anthem of the Russian Federation.
	www.hymn.ru /15-union-republics/index-en.html (1417 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Belarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In Mar., 1918, the Belarusian National Rada in Minsk proclaimed the region an independent republic; but in Jan., 1919, the Soviet government proclaimed a Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic at Smolensk, and soon the Red Army occupied all of Belarus.
		The eastern and larger part formed the Belorussian SSR when the USSR was formally established in 1922.
		In Sept., 1939, the Soviet army overran W Belarus and incorporated it into the Belorussian SSR.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Belarus.asp (1393 words)

	Belarus Flag,Belarus Map, Belarus Culture : SphereInfo.com
		The stage was set for the emergence of a national consciousness by the industrialization and urbanization of the nineteenth century and by the consequent publication of literature in the Belorussian language, which was often suppressed by Russian, and later Polish, authorities.
		It is ironic, then, that the first long-lived Belorussian state entity, the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belorussian SSR), was created by outside forces-the Bolshevik government in Moscow.
		The population of the Belorussian SSR was jolted into national awareness in the late 1980s with the occurrence of one disaster and the find of another.
	www.sphereinfo.com /belarus (934 words)

	Belarus: History
		Beginning in the 6th century the territory of modern Belarus was settled by East Slavic tribes, the ancestors of the Belorussians.
		After the disintegration of Kievan Rus' in the 13th century, the Belorussian lands were incorporated into the expanding Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		At first the Belorussians exerted a strong religious and cultural influence on the pagan Lithuanians; after the dynastic union of Lithuania and Poland in 1386, however, the Lithuanians converted to Latin Christianity, and the position of the Orthodox Belorussians began to decline.
	longwood.cs.ucf.edu /~MidLink/belarus/belarus.history.html (325 words)

	Lithuania. Page 2(2)
		In general, Belorussians constitute no more than 5% of the entire country, although some Lithuanians have remarked that the Belorussians' best hope for their own national revival lies in those living in Lithuania.
		The remaining two-thirds of the Vilnius territory was attached to the Belorussian SSR.
		The original pledge of the Belorussian delegates stated that in these areas Lithuanians form the majority of the population.
	www.ulfsbo.nu /ussr/lithuania2.html (1396 words)

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		By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Lithuanian SSR from February 24, 1950 Sagatas was granted Soviet citizenship, however, she did not turn in her American passport and continued to maintain contact with the U.S. Embassy.
		In 1926, they came to Polish territory from the USA with their father and after the reunification of the Western Ukraine with Ukraine SSR by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR dated 10 November 1945, they were granted Soviet citizenship.
		After the reunification of the Western Belorussia with the Belorussian SSR, Valentina and Vladimir KAZUN were granted Soviet citizenship.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/tfrussia/tfrhtml/tfrsplit/tfr037.html (4976 words)

	Belarus Transportation and Telecommunications - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		In the former Soviet Union, the central government owned and operated the transportation system of the Belorussian SSR and used it primarily to serve the economic needs of the entire country as determined by the CPSU.
		Because of the Belorussian SSR's generally flat landscape and its location, building a transportation system there did not entail the difficulties of building on rugged terrain, over permafrost, or in remote areas far from industrial centers.
		Railroads were the premier mode of transportation in the Belorussian SSR.
	www.photius.com /countries/belarus/economy/belarus_economy_transportation_and_t~674.html (987 words)

	math lessons - Byelorussian SSR
		The Byelorussian SSR (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Белору́сская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, Belarusian Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка) was one of the four original founding members of the U.S.S.R. in 1922, together with Ukrainian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian SFSR.
		The Byelorussian SSR was created on January 1 1919.
		After the Second World War Belarus was given a seat in the United Nations General Assembly together with the U.S.S.R. and Ukraine, so Belarus became one of the founding members of the UN.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Belorussian_SSR (159 words)

	BACKGROUND Belarus
		Belorussia, Poland, and Catholicism Belarus The Union of Krevo (1385), which joined Poland and the Grand Duchy in a confederation, hinged on Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila's conversion from paganism to Roman Catholicism and his subsequent marriage to twelve-year-old Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
		Early Belorussian Nationalism Belarus It was those memories that Kastus' Kalinowski (1838-64) tried to evoke in his clandestine newspaper Muzhytskaya Prawda (Peasants' Truth), which he published to inspire an uprising in solidarity with the Polish-Lithuanian insurrection against Russia in January 1863.
		Despite the Chornobyl' accident, in 1993 Belarus was still a net exporter of meat, milk, eggs, flour, and potatoes to other former Soviet republics, although its exports were routinely tested for radioactive contamination.
	www.district87.org /staff/gordonr/russia/belarus.htm (10814 words)

	www.foodprog.com - about belarus
		Belarus was established in 1919 as the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), which in 1922 became one of the four founding republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		In August 1991 Belarus declared its independence, contributing to the collapse of the USSR in December.
		In October 1988 the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) was formed, dedicated to the revival of the Belarusian language and to catalyzing the slow progress of de-Stalinization, or the reversal of repressive Stalinist policies, in the Belorussian SSR.
	foodprog.com /history.htm (2143 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Belarus: Background
		The interests of other minorities in the Republic were taken into account in a July 1924 decree that confirmed equal rights for the four principal languages of the republic: Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Yiddish.
		The Belorussian SSR was one of four founding Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, or Soviet Union), established on December 30, 1922.
		Supreme Soviet of Belorussian SSR declared independence on August 25, 1991 and changed name of country to Republic of Belarus.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=14&TID=2 (562 words)

	Belarus
		The last ended with the western part of the region ceded to Poland and the eastern part becoming the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, or Belorussia.
		During the German occupation (1941-44), Belorussia's large Jewish population (dating from the 14th century) was decimated.
		Following the failure of the hard-line coup (1991) against Soviet President Gorbachev, conservative Belorussian leaders were ousted.
	www.slavicfest.com /pages/map/belarus.html (402 words)

	Belarus
		Much of Belarus (formerly the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, and then Byelorussia) is a hilly lowland with forests, swamps, and numerous rivers and lakes.
		West Belarus was ceded to Poland; the larger eastern part formed the Belorussian SSR, and was then joined to the USSR in 1922.
		When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded in 1986, 70% of its radioactivity fell on the Belorussian SSR.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107325.html (921 words)

	Ministry of Defense - Belarus
		Before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 180,000 Soviet troops were stationed in the Belorussian SSR; approximately half answered directly to the General Staff in Moscow rather than to Belorussian Military District commanders.
		This situation changed only in May 1992 when Belarus abolished the Belorussian Military District and subordinated all troops on its soil to its own Ministry of Defense.
		The Belarusian armed forces officially came into existence on January 1, 1993, the day after all service personnel with Belarusian citizenship, which excluded the great majority of the officers, had taken an oath of loyalty to Belarus.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/belarus/mod.htm (1363 words)

	Feature Article - Trumpet America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Belarus was established in 1919 as the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), which in 1922 became one of the four founding republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
		After the defeat of Poland by Germany in 1939, the USSR recaptured western Belarus and added it to the Belorusian SSR, thereby nearly doubling the area of the republic.
		Except for certain small areas allocated to Poland, the 1939 political boundaries of the Belorusian SSR were confirmed by the terms of the treaty between Poland and the USSR in 1945.
	www.trumpetamerica.org /060327ta2210.html (4110 words)

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