... statement. Belarusian and Russian are 80% mutually understandable.
A huge historical shadow hangs over Belarus: the broken and lost Jewish shtetl culture, and its language Yiddish, a German-derived language. Jews lived in very large numbers in what are now Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine: these areas were their homeland. Under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kingdom), they flourished as an essential intermediate mercantile class between the proud Polish aristocracy and the local peasants. They were traders, farmers,...
This publication includes 53 articles analysing the main development trends in the post-Soviet space – both the geopolitical region as a whole and the individual countries that make it up. The anthology consists of three sections: the first section is retrospective in nature and looks at the post-Soviet space 20 years after the collapse of the USSR; the second section analyses the current state of the former Soviet nations; and the third section provides a number of forecasts for the development...
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine
The process of the breakup of the USSR into independent states naturally aggravated tensions between the newly formed countries. Unfortunately, political and economic disputes sometimes erupted into armed conflicts. Most of them resembled ...
