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 Belarus Sights
Belarus has its sights, and they are not all remnants of the Soviet Era, although there are plenty of those too.
Belarus is filled with churches, museums, and plenty of non-Lenin statues.
This hill, topped by four bayonets, was built from the scorched earth of the nine "Hero Cities" of the USSR and battlegrounds of WWII in honour of the Red Army.
www.world66.com /europe/belarus/sights   (374 words)

  
 Liberation of Belarus
Bloody and fierce deffensive and offensive battles of the Soviet Army, unprecedented firmness and heroism of partisans, self-denying labour of women, teenagers and even little children in the rear are accounted for the Radical Turn in the Great Patriotic War and in WWII.
Over 1600 generals, officers and soldiers were awarded the honourable title of the Hero of the USSR for courage and heroism revealed in the battles with the Germans on the Belorussian land.
As a result of the offensive operation “Bagration” the whole territory of Belarus, the greatest part of Lithuania, a considerable part of Latvia, East Poland were liberated from the aggressors, the Red Army approached the border of Eastern Prussia.
www.belarusembassy.org /humanitarian/liberation.htm   (1346 words)

  
 '2002 miracle on ice' — Belarus upsets Sweden - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
Belarus had been outscored 22-6 in three previous final round losses, and it's a poor country competing in its second-ever Olympics with only one top-level pro.
For Belarus, the win is by far the biggest moment in the former Soviet republic's sports history.
The shot will be played on Belarus television in the future as often as Eruzione's improbable goal against the Soviets has been repeated in the United States the past 22 years.
deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001302,00.html   (632 words)

  
 The BEING HAD Times: Media, Union State, WTO, EU radio, PACE blasts Belarus, Milinkevich in Europe
Belarus is the only CIS state that buys natural gas from Russia at a record low price of 45 US dollars per 1,000 cubic meters at the time when the price for Ukraine, for example, has been upped to 230 dollars.
Belarus is the only European country that is not a member of the Council of Europe, the body that acts as the primary guardian of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Belarus is the only European country that is not a member of the Council of Europe.Authorities this year enacted a law criminalizing behavior deemed critical of the state.
bhtimes.blogspot.com /2006/01/media-union-state-wto-eu-radio-pace.html   (5863 words)

  
 History of Belarus
The displeasure of the Belarusan gentry with the divisions of Rzecz Pospolita and the breach of the Polish Constitution of 1815 by the Russian Empire led to the outbreak of a national liberation uprising in November 1830.
Belarus as well as the other Soviet republics of the former USSR had gone through all the stages of the creation of mythical communism and suffered enormous cultural, spiritual and human losses.
The final legal act that pronounced Belarus a new democratic state in Eastern Europe was the new Constitution of the Republic of Belarus adopted by the Supreme Soviet on the 15th of March 1994.
www.belarusguide.com /as/archiv/web_pages/novik/history.htm   (2531 words)

  
 History of Belarus by Ahien Reshatau
Due to their works, the foundation for the further education and renascence of Belarus was laid, and the country entered the 20th century ready for a new wave in the movement for liberation.
Belarus was, as usual, the place of heaviest battles; it was occupied by the Germans very soon after the war started.
Belarus, which carried its language through centuries of interdictions, was not able to resist this ideological attack.
www.belarusguide.com /history1/history.html   (11767 words)

  
 BACKGROUND Belarus
Independent Belarus Belarus Following the August 1991 coup d'état in Moscow and declarations of independence by Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine, the Supreme Soviet in Minsk declared the independence of Belarus on August 25, 1991, by giving its Declaration of State Sovereignty the status of a constitutional document and renaming the country the Republic of Belarus.
Some 70 percent of the radiation spewed was carried by the wind to Belarus, where it affected at least 25 percent of the country--especially the Homyel' (Gomel' in Russian) and Mahilyow (Mogilëv in Russian) voblastsi (sing., voblasts'), or counties, in the south and southeast, and 22 percent of the population.
Belarus has instituted a pronatal policy to counteract women's reluctance to have children, but difficult economic conditions and fear of birth defects caused by environmental pollution continue to be major causes of the decline in the birthrate.
www.district87.org /staff/gordonr/russia/belarus.htm   (10814 words)

  
 Hero of Belarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Similar titles to the Hero of Belarus include the Russian Hero of the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian Hero of Ukraine.
The title was created by the Belarus Supreme Soviet on April 13, 1995, with the passage of Resolution N 3726-XII, titled "System of State Awards for the Republic of Belarus." Alongside the Hero of Belarus title, the resolution authorized the creation of medals, orders, and titles that can be presented by the Belarusian government.
Unlike the Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor and the Hero of the Russian Federation titles, there is no engraving on the reverse of the star.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hero_of_Belarus   (1773 words)

  
 IIHF - NEWS
Belarus was 0-3 with 22 goals allowed in losses to Russia, Finland and the USA.
Belarus now heads for a semifinal matchup with either Canada or Finland on Friday at the E Center.
Belarus grabbed a 3-2 lead 2:47 into the third, when Andrei Kovalev intercepted a Mattias Öhlund giveaway near the Swedish blueline and used Lidström as his screen to fire a shot along the ice between Salo's pads.
www.iihf.com /news/1newsog10003.htm   (1017 words)

  
 The Jewish Virtual History Tour - Belarus
The first record of Jews in Belarus is in the 14th century,C.E.
At that time, Belarus was a region of Poland-Lithuania, and was referred to as Belorussia.
Belarus victims of the Holocaust receive compensation from the Swiss Fund for Needy Victims of the Holocaust.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Belarus.html   (2645 words)

  
 PGSA - Poles in Belarus
For centuries Belarus was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a portion of Belarus was part of Poland up until the late 1930's.
According to the last poll held in 1989, there were 413,000 Poles in Belarus, but many question the objectivity of this poll, held while Belarus was still under the Communist regime, and believe that the actual number is much higher.
I always thought that revival of Polish genealogy in Belarus should be an integral part of the larger cause of restoring recognition of the Polish presence in the region.
www.pgsa.org /Inter/belarus.htm   (1108 words)

  
 Belarus News and Analysis | "Bald Hero" in Belarus and Ireland
TEHRAN, Sep. 09 (ISNA)-The "Bald Hero" puppet show directed by Fahimeh Mirhusseini is to participate in the Belarus and Ireland's puppets theater festivals.
This puppet show which is preformed by "The Apple Tree" puppet theater group is scheduled to be shown in Belarus puppet theater festival this week and then will be off to Ireland's festival.
This show before this had participated in various festivals.
www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/092006/58.html   (65 words)

  
 Kazakhstan Votes RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Lukashenka became a media hero and subsequently boasted of being invited as an expert by the Soviet Cabinet of Ministers in Moscow to participate in the preparation of documents on agricultural policies at the end of the perestroika championed by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.
To appease the public's thirst for blood in the aftermath of Lukashenka's speech, the communist nomenklatura in the Supreme Soviet found a scapegoat in democratically minded speaker Stanislau Shushkevich and voted him out of office for not accounting for some $100 during the construction of his dacha.
Unlike Ukraine, the opposition is not represented in the Belarus parliament or in local governments, Maksymiuk said.
www.rferl.org /specials/belarus_votes/bios/Lukashenka.aspx   (1245 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Minsk Citizens Celebrate City Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Belarus' capital was granted the title for heroic resistance it put up against Nazi invaders during WWII.
On Thursday, commissions of the Russian and Georgian defence ministries will resume their effort to coordinate deeds of conveyance and acceptance of property belonging to Russian military bases in Vaziani and Gudaut, a member of the Russian defence ministry delegation told RIA Novosti in a telephone interview.
Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia who is currently touring Belarus, on Tuesday consecrated the church in the corrective labour colony in the town of Mozyr.
newsfromrussia.com /cis/2001/07/01/9071.html   (1582 words)

  
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 Belarus hist
Belarus is a new country in Eastern Europe.
Nowadays the monuments to Tadeusz Kasciuszka, national hero of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, the USA, honorable citizen of France, can be seen in Washington, Chicago, Miluokes, Klivlend in the USA and also in France and Poland.
Belarus is a country of well-developed cultural relations.
www.skiptonps.vic.edu.au /history/belhis2.htm   (1803 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
However, the international and domestic reactions that Kazulin's protest generated indicate the effort was not made in vain.
On December 8 -- the same day some 500 people in Belarus went on a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with the fasting Kazulin -- the UN human rights rapporteur on Belarus, Adrian Severin, expressed his "deepest concern" over the opposition leader's health condition.
A day later a statement issued by the German Embassy in Belarus on behalf of the European Union called on the Belarusian government to "promptly release" Kazulin.
www.rferl.org /reports/pbureport   (1554 words)

  
 Everbrite's Guide to Belarus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The insurance certificate issued by a foreign insurance company should be valid on the territory of Belarus during the period of stay and should cover the insurance cases established by the Law of the Republic of Belarus.
Belarus Travel is another tour company with lots of good information about things to do and places to visit.
The foundation was laid with a symbolic handful of earth from Minsk, from every Hero City of the former USSR, from the sites of major battles on the territory of the USSR during WW II and from thousands of Belarusian villages, towns and cities terrorized by the German invaders.
members.aol.com /imershein/belarus2.html   (2672 words)

  
 Piano: Belarus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In 1955 the factory have mastered release of new model of piano Belarus.
The renowned musician, Hero Sotsialisticheskog Work, the winner of the Lenin State premium, the national actor of the USSR Svjatoslav Richter has credited this piano the highest estimation: "The Belarus Piano possesses equal both soft sounding and a beautiful timbre in all registers.
The enterprise specialises on release of musical instrument "Belarus", concert cymbals, acoustic guitars, "Melody"; children's musical toys: cymbals!,, xylophones 12 and 15.
www.pianos.co.uk /info/pianos/b/belarus.php   (325 words)

  
 History of Poland
There are seven nations bordering on Poland: Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Germany.
The same goes for the hero of the American War of Independence and the Polish uprising — Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
Now, one more country claims “ownership” of that hero (heroes are always in demand, aren’t they?).
www.kmm-language.com /poland_000009.htm   (1830 words)

  
 Brest (Belarus) - Wikitravel
Border town in the south-west corner of Belarus, near Terespol in Poland.
If you arrive only ten minutes before the train leaves, chances are good that the train will leave without you, not because the queue is too long, but just because the rules are strict.
Walking the grounds of this great fortification is a moving experience that gives a good sense of the privations faced by the forces that were besieged there.
wikitravel.org /en/Brest_(Belarus)   (297 words)

  
 Belarus » Blog Archive » Da Vinci Code to be locked forever in Belarus?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Hey, and we thought that Belarus is an island of tranquility that spared itself from conflicts and religious wars!
There is just a handful of muslims in Belarus, and there were barely any protests or reaction to the whole affair.
Of course, there are religious people in Belarus who are offended by the Da Vinci code.
www.tolblogs.org /belarus/en/?p=85   (579 words)

  
 Belarus Now: Information and Analytical Bulletin; Politics. Economics. Finances. WWW.OPEN.BY; news MPs rushed to help ...
Alexander Lukashenko said in his statement on the comprehensive support of "our Slavs" that it would be thorough, except for sending Belarusian soldiers there as this is prohibited by the Constitution.
The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the President Lukashenko's statement that Belarus is ready to render help to Yugoslavia has been appraised in that country as the strongest moral support ever provided to Yugoslav nations.
The staff of Belarusian Embassy in Belgrade accepts hundreds of calls from Yugoslav citizens who name the President of Belarus "people's hero" of Serbia.
www.open.by /belarus-now/cont/1998/1013/news/2.html   (685 words)

  
 Belarus News and Analysis | September, 2006
29.09.2006 IMF recommends Belarus improve macroeconomic forecast methods
22.09.2006 Belarus: "We are relying on God, not the courts"
01.09.2006 Decision to build NPP in Belarus to be based on public opinion
www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/092006/index.html   (1576 words)

  
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There were no explosions on the territory of Belarus that could provoke an earthquake.
It would have been impossible to conceal such an event.
Such was the commentary of the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency on the information edited by several Mass Media, according to which an explosion in Belarus was one of the most probable reasons for the earthquake (three points of Richter scale) that had taken place at night, January 24, in the north-east of Poland.
www.lycos.com /info/belarus--poland.html   (319 words)

  
 The My Hero Short Film Festival
Slater journeys to Catalina Island to interview her Environmental Hero Jean-Michel Cousteau.
This short animation expresses the heroic nature of balance and companionship in our lives.
My Hero student reporter Andy visits the YouthCan Conference in New York City with his hero Rowena Gerber to present Paul Munsen's Solar Oven Project.
myhero.com /myhero/go/filmfestival/screeningroom.asp   (867 words)

  
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a machinebuilding plant was established in the city of Zhodino, Belarus.
Belarusian Automobile Plant was visited by the President of Belarus who gave to enterprise's director P. Mariev the honorable title "Hero of Belarus".
Materials and specifications are subject to change without notice.
www.zagrosmachine.com /history.htm   (279 words)

  
 National assembly of the Republic of Belarus .: COUNSIL OF REPUBLIC :. Mr. Pavel Mariev
National assembly of the Republic of Belarus.: COUNSIL OF REPUBLIC :.
Structure and composition of the Council of the Republic
Working groups of The National Assembly of Belarus on Cooperation with Parliaments of foreign countries
www.sovrep.gov.by /index_eng.php/.455.1561...1.0.0.html   (134 words)

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