Some information about Belarus

Dear friends,

I would like to acquaint you with the country where I was born and where I grew up. The name of this country is Belarus'. It is the crossroads between the West and the East and between the North and the South. Some of you might think: oh, right, that new republic that came into being a few years ago. But let me tell you that this is not true, in fact, my country is more than a thousand years old. It can look back on a great and rich history. In the 15th century the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the state of our ancestors, was one of the most significant in Europe...

... Today as ever, people who strive to get closer to one another, not only in Europe, but all over the world, need to know something about their neighbours. With the help of the Internet I would like to propose you the
Virtual Guide to Belarus -- a collaborative project of Belarusian scientists abroad, for which I am maintaining the following pages:

• Virtual Guide to Belarus in Belarusian
• History of Belarus
• Belarusian Heraldry
• Belarusian Heritage - a tourist and historical Guide to significant places in Belarus

  with Clickable map of Belarus

• Belarusian Rock
• Law and politics in Belarus with

  Summary of Belarusian politics in 1986-96

• Kurapaty - place of Stalin`s repression in Belarus

See also the following collection of information about Belarus':

The web version of the independent city guide Minsk In Your Pocket

Some WWW-Server in Belarusan capital Miensk

Belarusian information web site with last press news in Belarusan and Russian Belarusian Chronicle - daily news from/about Belarus Informationen über Weissrussland (Information about Belarus) pages in German WWW Belarus Global Internet Journal (www.belarus.net) Belarusian Soros Foundation Network systems Catalyst Silicon Solutions' home page Tacis European Expertise Service. Belarus Economic Trends Data - independent server with a big collection of Belarusian web-sites.

• BELARUS SERVICE - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
• Audycje bialoruskie - Polskie Radio 5

A Belarus Miscellany Page - by Peter Kasaty.

Canadian Relief Fund for Chernobyl Victims in Belarus - a Magellan 4-Star Site by Alex Kowalenko

Hilfe für die Kinder von Tschernobyl - a German "Children of Tschernobyl" organisation - a Homepage by Remco und Monika Castner in Munich (München).

Bucknell University's Belarus Page - statistics and more statistics make up the Belarus Web page

Short English-Belarusian Dictonary maintained by Ryhor Hajduk.

Constitution of the Republic of Belarus a part of the International Constitutional Law at the University of Hamburg.

News about Belarus: Here are links to OMRI (Open Media Research Institute) The World Center for Analysis of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

UNIBEL - network in Miensk (Minsk).

Dainova - the first corporate Belarusan home page on Internet .

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Last updated 17.11.97

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Maintaining this page is Aliaksiej Sierka Go to Virtual Guide to Belarus