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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Belarus
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC +2
- Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Currency: Belarusian Rouble (BR)
- Country Dialing Code: 375
Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List
- Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest
- Mir Castle Complex
- Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh
- Struve Geodetic Arc
Belarus
Location
Eastern Europe, east of Poland
Capital
Minsk
Population
10,300,483 (July 2005 est.)
Regions
6 provinces (voblastsi, singular - voblasts') and 1 municipality* (horad); Brest, Homyel', Horad Minsk*, Hrodna, Mahilyow, Minsk, Vitsyebsk note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers
Climate
cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime
Ethnic groups
Belarusian 81.2%, Russian 11.4%, Polish 3.9%, Ukrainian 2.4%, other 1.1% (1999 census)
Religions
Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.)
Languages
Belarusian, Russian, other
Background
After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his election in July 1995 as the country's first president, Alexander LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion continue.
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