It’s considered a legitimate symbol of Belarusian statehood in opposition to the red-and-green flag ... After a short period of ‘korenisation’ in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, when ...

It's not the first time. Russia under the czars and in the era of the Soviet Union imposed its language, symbols and cultural ...

When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no ...