The following are facts about the country of Belarus that you should know

The following are facts about the country of Belarus that you should know

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The following are facts about the country of Belarus

The following are facts about the country of Belarus that you should know

The etymology of the name belarusian is closely related to the term belaya rus, The name rus itself is often equated with the Latin form of the words russia and ruthenia, so belarusians are often referred to as white russia or white ruthenia.

The first use of the term white russia to refer to belarus occurred in the late 16th century by the englishman sir jerome horsey, known for his close contact with the royal courts of russia.

During the 17th century, tsarist Russia used the term white rus to describe the lands added from the grand duchy of Lithuania. The design of the flag consists of 2 main colors namely red and green accompanied by an ornament pattern placed on the side of the flagpole.

This national flag design was officially introduced in 2012 adapted from a design approved in a referendum in 1995. The design of the flag itself replaces the old flag design of belarus when the country was part of the soviet union Although there is no official interpretation for the color of the flag, the explanation given by president alexander lukashenko is that the red color on the flag symbolizes the freedom and sacrifice of the ancestors of the nation, while the green color symbolizes life.

Almost half or about 40% of the territory of Belarus consists of forests, this fact is also symbolized by the green stripe on the flag of the country.

The country is sometimes referred to as the lungs of europe, because of its countless forests, rivers and lakes. The belarusian national animal is the heaviest land mammal in the entire european continent, that is, the european bison. Bison are the largest land animals found only in the Americas and Europe.

Bison are horned mammals that live in groups, but unlike other groups of animals in general, bison herds usually group by gender and they will meet other groups when the mating season has arrived.

European bison mostly live in not too dense forests as well as on plains that are heavily overgrown with shrubs. The Belarusian ruble is the official currency used in the republic of belarus.

This currency is encoded with BYN. 1 Belarusian ruble if converted to the currency of our country has a value of about 5, 600 rupiah. Belarusian and Russian are considered the official languages of the country, but only about 10% of citizens use belarusian language in daily communication.

Most belarusians speak the trasianka language, which is a mixed language of Belarusian and Russian. The small number of native Belarusian speakers makes belarusian one of the endangered languages, according to UNESCO's list of vulnerable and endangered languages.

Under the rule of the soviet union, belarus was considered the silicon valley of the soviet union, since the country used to make 50% of the computers and computer parts of the soviet union.

Since the 1960s, belarusians have also been a center for software development and are responsible for having coined the term programmnoe obespechenie or software in russian. Despite its name as a republic, the country is considered a dictatorship, especially by the united states and many european countries.

Because since 1994, the country has been ruled by president alexander lukashenko. President Alexander Lukashenko is considered to have increased his presidential power so that he is considered a super president or dictator.

Lukashenko has been criticized by other European countries and the United States for political violence, human rights abuses and fraudulent elections that have been accused of causing him to be in power until now.

Although belarus is located in europe, the index of democracy of this country is very low. Freedom house calls belarus a non-free country. The index of economic freedom lists belarus as an oppressed country.

Reporters without borders listed belarus as a country of low press freedom in europe in 2013 and 2014. One of the economic struggles for belarus was its poor relationship with many european powers as well as the united states.

Travel bans and economic sanctions have been placed in the country in protest of Lukashenko's presidency. Because of that factor, many countries are unwilling to invest or trade with belarusians.

Based on its geographical location. Belarus, is the largest European country, which does not have access to the sea. Because the country is confined by land, the nearest coast of the country is approximately about 200 kilometers and is located on the territory of a neighboring country.

The geographical area of belarus is very flat. The highest mountain in belarus, is the dzyarzhynskaya mountain, with its highest point only about 346 meters above sea level. While the lowest point is in the nyoman river 90 meters above sea level.

Although belarus is a country without natural mountains, it has several mountains.

In the area near the soligorsk region, there are a large number of artificial salt mountains formed during the belarusian salt mining period. These mountains provide a unique view into the mining history of belarus.

The bialowieza forest in belarus is home to 800 european bison, the heaviest terrestrial animals in europe. This forest is included in the list of world heritage sites by UNESCO and the EU natura 2000 special area of conservation.

The country has a total of 88 world heritage sites designated by UNESCO. The belovezhskaya pushcha national park, which is a former ancient forest of Europe, is also one of the unesco world heritage.

This national park is the largest forest in belarus, whose area is three times the territory of the country of andorra.

The city of minsk is the city of eternity This city was once destroyed and on earth scorched on 18 occasions in the upheavals of european history, but it has always risen and rebuilt like the legend of the phoenix.

In the annals of history, on the historical record Minsk city is a green city with more than 844, 000 trees.

The city of minsk is also dubbed the city of heroes. The belarusian national library, dubbed the belarusian knowledge diamond is one of the most iconic buildings in the country. The library holds more than 9 million books and is one of the most visited landmarks of the city of Minsk.

The last DICTATORSHIP Country in Europe, This is the Country of Belarus!

The last DICTATORSHIP Country in Europe, This is the Country of Belarus!

The last DICTATORSHIP Country in Europe, This is the Country of Belarus!

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The last DICTATORSHIP Country in Europe, This is the Country of Belarus!

The last DICTATORSHIP Country in Europe, This is the Country of Belarus!

Countries on the continent are often said to be democratic countries. Countries that uphold freedom and human rights. On the occasion of this article, we will discuss about the country that was dubbed the last dictatorship country in Europe.

The country of belarus or also known as belarus, is the name of one of the countries on the european continent. The official name of the country is the republic of belarus.

The republic of belarus is one of the countries in the eastern european region. Belarus is one of the landlocked countries in the region.

The country borders the russian state in the eastern and northeastern parts, with ukraine in the south, poland in the west, and with lithuania and latvia in the northwest. Based on its area, Belarus is the 13th largest country on the continent.

The area of this country covers an area of 207,600 square kilometers, which if forced to be compared with the area in Indonesia, the area of this country is almost half of the area of the island of Sumatra, with an overall area of 443,065 square kilometers.

Geographically, belarus is an inland country, the country stretches in two ecoregions, namely sarmatic mixed forest and central european mixed forest Administratively, the country is divided into 6 provincial areas or what is called oblast. Namely, the provinces of brest gomel, grodno, mogilev, minsk, and vitebsk.

Provinces in belarus are named after the cities that are the center of its administration. The city of minks is the largest city in belarus, which is also the capital of the country. As the capital, the city of minks has a special administrative status as one of the direct national subordinates because it is not included in the oblast or province.

Perhaps if it is equated with the Indonesian region, the minks city area is included as a special area or special region. Belarus is a republican country with a presidential system of government, the country is ruled by a president and a national assembly. The president of belarus has a five-year term.

Under belarus' 1994 constitution, the president can only serve for two terms, but a change in the constitution in 2004 removed the term limit. Alexander lukashenko is the current president of belarus, he has been president of belarus since 1994.

Lukashenko described himself as having an "authoritarian style of governing". because of this style of government, by some media, politicians and writers, belarus is often described as the last dictatorship of Europe.

The population census in 2019, showed the total population of belarus reached 9,413,466 inhabitants. By population numbers, belarus is the 20th most populous country on the continent.

Christianity is the majority religion in the country, overall, about 48.3% of the population is orthodox Christian, 41.1% are nonreligious, 7.1% are Catholic and 3.3% adhere to other religions.

Belarus has two languages that are spoken as the official language of its country, namely Belarusian and Russian. In 2019, the economy of belarus was the economy with the 72nd largest GDP in the world by purchasing power parity or PPP. As part of the former soviet union, belarus has a relatively well developed industrial base. The country managed to maintain its industrial base after the breakup of the USSR, as well as a vast agricultural base and a higher level of education.

Belarus is a developing country with a very high ranking in the human development index. History of belarus The history of belarus or rather the ethnicity of belarus begins with the migration and expansion of slavic peoples through eastern Europe between the 6th and 8th centuries AD. These eastern slavic peoples later settled in the territory of belarus of russia and the territory of present-day ukraine.

The existence of these slavic people assimilated the local baltics who had already lived there first. The ethnicity of modern belarus may have been formed on the basis of three slavic tribes, namely kryvians, drehovians, radzimians as well as some baltic tribes.

In the 9th century, the territory of modern belarus or belarus became part of kievan rus, that is, the vast eastern slavic state ruled by the rurikid dynasty. But after the death of the ruler of kievan rus, the country split into several independent kingdoms.

Between the 9th and 12th centuries, the polotsk kingdom in northern belarus emerged as the dominant center of power in the belarus region while the turau kingdom in the south had a smaller power.

From the 13th to the 15th centuries, the kingdoms were annexed by the grand duchy of Lithuania or the grand duchy of lithuania. In 1386, the grand duchy of Lithuania and the polish kingdom joined in a personal union through the marriage of their rulers.

This union stirred up developments that ultimately resulted in the formation of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, which was formed in 1569 by the lublin union. As part of lithuania, belarus was incorporated into the commonwealth.

The union between poland and lithuania ended in 1795 with the division of polish territory by the russian empire, prussia, and austria.

In this period, then began a new period in the history of belarus with all its lands annexed by the russian empire. In 1796, under russian rule, belarus was incorporated into the belarusian governorate, the territory of belarus was divided into guberniyas of minsk, vitebsk, mogilyov, and hrodno. The people's republic of belarus was the first attempt to create an independent belarusian state under the name "Belarus".

Despite significant efforts, the state did not survive, especially since the region continued to be dominated by soldiers from the german empire and the imperial army of russia in world war I, In 1919, part of belarus under russian rule emerged as a byelorussian soviet socialist republic or byelorussian SSR.

Soon after this republic merged to form the lithuanian-byelorussian SSR. In 1922, the byelorussian SSR became a founding member of the socialist republic of the USSR. In 1939, nazi germany and the soviet union invaded and occupied poland, marking the start of world war II.

The Soviets invaded and annexed much of eastern Poland, which had been part of the country since the riga peace treaty two decades earlier. Most of the northern part of this area was added to the byelorussian SSR, and is now western Belarusian. Germany and its allies invaded the soviet union in 1941.

During world war II, the Germans attempted to establish their puppet government in belarus. The german occupation in 1941 to 1944 and the war on the eastern front had devastated belarus More than 1.6 million civilians and 620,000 soldiers of the red army of belarus were killed, and the country lost about 25% of its population.

After the end of the world war, belarus was among the 51 founding member states of the charter of the United Nations and therefore the state of belarus was allowed to conduct additional voting at the UN, in addition to the soviet union vote.

Belarus declared itself sovereign on July 27, 1990 by issuing a declaration of sovereignty of the socialist republic of the soviet belarus On August 25, 1991 With the support of the communist party, the belarusians declared full independence from the soviet union by granting a constitutional status that they had not previously had on the declaration of state sovereignty. The name of the country was later changed to the republic of belarus.

In December of the same year, the three supreme soviet leaders of belarus, russia and ukraine met, to formally announce the dissolution of the soviet union and the establishment of a commonwealth of independent states. The country was only fully recognized as a sovereign state on December 26, 1991.

That is a summary of the history of the country of belarus,

The following are facts about the country of Belarus that you should know