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Belarus

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1 How many square miles is Belarus in area?

2 What is the native name for Belarus

3 Which is the largest city in Belarus?

4 What are people from Belarus known as?

5 What is the national anthem of Belarus?

6 The currency of Belarus is the ________ (BYR).

7 Groups such as the ________ (OSCE) declared the election "un-free" because of the opposition parties' poor results and media bias in favor of the government.

8 Belarus has historically leaned to different religions, mostly Orthodox, ________ (mostly in western regions), different denominations of Protestantism (especially during the time of union with Protestant Sweden).

9 The population density of Belarus: How many people are there per square kilometre?

10 Belarus has increased cooperation with ________, strengthened by the visit of President Lukashenko to China in October 2005.

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • before the 2004 Russiaā€“Belarus gas dispute, Gazprom sold natural gas to Belarus at Russian domestic prices?
  • Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history, including the January Uprising?
  • only five people have been decorated Hero of Belarus, the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus?
  • the 17th century Biaroza monastery in Biaroza, Belarus, has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town?
  • the first poet in the Russian language, Symeon of Polotsk, was ethnically Belarusian?
  • romanization of Belarusian, the transliteration of Belarusian-language text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet, is distinct from writing in Łacinka, the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus?
  • Kapyl, a town in modern Belarus, was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574?
  • Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
  • Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?
  • Anatoly Malofeyev was a first secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the Soviet Union era and Belarusian parliament speaker?
  • Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
  • Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus?
  • Belarus contains large, but undeveloped reserves of oil shale?
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