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 | | Belarus [formerly Belorussia or White Russia] is part of a region that is wedged between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and like its neighbors, present-day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine, can look back on a turbulent past. |
 | | For centuries, the borders of Belarus kept shifting; Minsk, its capital, about 260 km [160 miles] from the Polish border, was founded in 1067 as Menesk, became part of Lithuania in 1326, was later ceded to Poland, then to Russia in 1793. |
 | | In November 12th 1997, Police in Belarus have detained the country's agriculture minister, Vasily Leonov, and the head of its main farming enterprise Vasily Starovoitov on suspicion of embezzlement and corruption. |
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