Belarus

General	Country Overview	News
History	Language	Economy
Culture	Environment	Media Situation
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	Miscellaneous

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  General Resources | top

• A Belarus Miscellany - great site
• Virtual Guide to Belarus
  
• BelarusToday.com - a portal site with news (in Russian / English)
  
• WWW Belarus - business oriented
  
  

    Website Catalogs

• www.09.open.by - searchable , in Russian
  
• Belarus Web-catalogue - in Belorussian
  

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Country Overview | top

• CIA World Factbook - Belarus
  1. Factbook 2000
     
  
  
• BELARUS - A Country Study
  
• Nations in Transit - Belarus - from Freedom House's 1998 annual report
  

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Online News | top

• Belarusian Chronicle
• Belarus Now - information and analytical bulletin , in English
  
• Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta - 3 times in a week , in Russian
  
  
• Vecherny Minsk - daily , in Russian
  
  

    International Press

• Washington Post and Associated Press - Belarus
  
• Yahoo! (UPI,Reuters) : Latest News about Belarus
  
  

    E-Mail News

• BELARUS MAGIC NEWS (message : subscribe MAGIC your e-mail address )
  

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Language | top

• UCLA Language Materials Project - Belarusian Profile
  
• Belarusian "Lacinka" - by Mikalai Pachkayeu
  

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Science & Education | top

• Belarus: Science and Education
  
• The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  

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History | top

Belarusian History - General

• Note from the History of Belarus - translated and compiled by Jauhen Reshatau (in English)
  
• Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church: A Brief History
  
• History of Minsk - from the Website "Minsk On-line" (in Russian)
  
• Sources from the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk
  

Early History
Grand Duchy of Litva

• Statut of the Grand Duche of Lithuania
  
• Lithuanian Metrika - documents of the State Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  
• Cultural Heritage - Publications of the Lithuanian Metrica - Lithuanian Academic and Research Network
  
  
• Francis Skaryna of Polack - by Guy De Picarda
  
• Virtual Guide to Belarus - Symon Budny (1530-1593)
  

Under the Commonwealth (1569-1795)

• Virtual Guide to Belarus - People of Culture
  - Vasil' Cyapinski (1530-1604)
  - Ipaci Pocei (1541-1613)
  - Leu Sapega (1557-1633)
  - Meleci Smatrycki (1578-1634)

   

Russian Empire Period

• Kastus Kalinouski (1838-1864) - the leader of the 1863-64 uprising in Belarus - Virtual Guide to Belarus
  
• Maps - published by Charles Knight & Co. in London (from the Website "JewishGen")
  1. 1834 Minsk Gubernia Map
     
  2. 1834 Mogilev Gubernia Map
     
  3. 1834 Vitebsk Gubernia Map
     
  4. 1834 Grodno Gubernia Map
     
• Maps - published in the 1899 edition of Vsia Rossiia
  1. Grodno Guberniya Map
     
  2. Minsk Guberniya Map
     
  3. Vitebsk Gubernia Map
     
• Jewish Population for Towns in Minsk Guberniya 1897-1898 - by Vitaly Charny
  
• Occupations of Minsk Gubernia Jewish population in 1897 - by Vitaly Charny
  
  In Between Two Wars
  

• Piotra Krecheuiski
  
• Vasil Zacharka
  
• Branislau Taraskievic / Bronislaw Taraszkiewicz - by Mikalai Pachkayeu
  
• History of Russia-Belarus relations in 1917-1922 - by I. Bartsits ("Observer" No.8, 2000, In Russian)
  
• Anticommunist Uprisings And Resistance In Belarus - by Jurka Vicbich
  
  During the World War II
  

• Belarusian Nazi during the World War II and their work for the Cold War
  
• How many Belarusians perished during the war? - by Emmanuil Ioffe
  
• The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive

Post-war Period

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Economy | top

General Resources

• WWW Belarus/Business and Economics
  
• BISNIS Area Reports - Belarus
  

Economic News & Journals

• Belarusian Market - weekly , in Russian

Analyses of Economic Situation

• Republic of Belarus - Recent Economic Developments - IMF Staff Country Report No.98/108 (1998)
  
• Belarus: an economic miracle? - by David R. Marples (Ukrainian Weekly,July 27, 1997)
  

Statistics

• Ministry of Statistics and Analysis - in English / Russian
  
• Belarus Data Profile - by World Bank
  
  Privatization
  

• Law on Privatization (1993)
  

Industry

• Business and Industry in Belarus - information on industry sectors (from the Website of "Virtual Guide to Belarus")
  

Agriculture & Rural Development

• Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus
  
• Land Ownership Law (June 1993) - English translation by "WWW Belarus"
  
• Land Code (December 1990) - Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 - English translation by "WWW Belarus"
  

Banks & Financial Markets

• Belarusbank
  
  

Foreign Trade

• Belarus: National export controls for conventional weapons - by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  

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Culture | top

General

• Virtual Guide to Belarus - Culture
  
• Notes on Belarusian Culture 1920-1938
  

Literature

• The Old Belarusian Poetry
  
• Belarusian Writers Abroad
  
• Belaruskaia Palichka (Belarusian Bookshelf) - a collection of books of contemporary belarusian writers (in Belarusian)
  
• Jan Chachot (1796-1847) - Virtual Guide to Belarus
  
• Belarusian Writers - by Peter Kasaty
  1. Kastus Kalinouski (1838-64)
     
  2. Poet Alies' Harun (1887-1920)
     
  3. Writer Maksim Harecki (1893-1938)
     
  4. Writer Zmitrok Biadula (1886-1941)
     
  5. Writer Maksim Bahdanovich (1891-1917)
     
  6. Writer Uladzimir Mikalaevic Dubouka (1900-1976)
     
  7. Poet Larisa Geniush (1910-1983)
     
  8. Poet Natalla Arsiennieva (1903-1997)
• Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich (1808-1884)
  1. Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich - Virtual Guide to Belarus
     
• Francishak Bahushevich (1840-1900)
  1. Francishak Bahushevich - Virtual Guide to Belarus
     

Francisak Bahusevic/Fraciszak Bahuszewicz - by Mikalai Pachkayeu

Cinema

• Belarusian Cinematography
  

Art & Architecture

• Belarusian School of Painting
  
• Artists From Belarus: The School of Paris
  
• Belarusian Architecture
  
  

Music

• Musical Movement of Minsk
  

Folk Culture

• Religion in Belarus - Paganism
  
• Virtual Guide to Belarus - Holidays and traditional celebrations in Belarus
  
• Virtual Guide to Belarus - The Folk Music of Belarus
  
• Belarusian Traditional Clothing
  
• Virtual Guide to Belarus - Belarusian Textile
  
• Virtual Guide to Belarus - Belarusian Traditional Ceramics
  

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Miscellaneous | top