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Belarus–Poland border
The Belarus–Poland border, about 400 km along the old Curzon Line, is the EU's eastern frontier and site of the 2021 Belarusian-orchestrated migration crisis, Poland's 187 km steel fence, a 206 km electronic barrier, and suspended asylum access since 2025.
Belarusfilm (Беларусьфільм)
Belarusfilm (Беларусьфільм) is Belarus's state-owned national film studio in Minsk, founded 17 December 1924 as Belgoskino, renamed Soviet Belarus then Belarusfilm in 1946. Known for Soviet war and partisan films (nicknamed Partizanfilm) and Come and See; since 2020 it produces state-ordered ideological cinema.
Belarusian Air Force
The Belarusian Air Force is the air arm of the Armed Forces of Belarus, formed in 1992 from the Soviet 26th Air Army and merged with air defense forces in 2001.
Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (BAOC) is an Orthodox church claiming independence for Belarus, proclaimed under German occupation in 1942 and never recognized by any Orthodox church.
Belarusian Central Rada
The Belarusian Central Rada, or Belarusian Central Council, was a collaborationist administrative body established by Nazi Germany in occupied Belarus in December 1943, led by Radaslaŭ Astroŭski.
Belarusian chronicles
Lithuanian chronicles, also called Belarusian-Lithuanian or Ruthenian chronicles, are the Ruthenian-language historiographic works of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 14th to 16th centuries, forming the first history of that state.
Belarusian dialects
Belarusian dialects are the regional varieties of Belarusian, an East Slavic language, traditionally divided into Northeastern and Southwestern dialects with Central Belarusian subdialects between them, spoken in Belarus and parts of neighboring countries.
Belarusian diaspora
The Belarusian diaspora is the community of people of Belarusian origin or citizenship living outside Belarus, formed in waves since World War I, with large branches in the United States, Canada, and Russia.
Belarusian folk song
A Belarusian folk song (беларуская народная песня) is a song of traditional rural Belarusian culture, transmitted orally and divided by researchers into ritual songs tied to the calendar and life stages, and lyrical songs.
Belarusian folk tale
A Belarusian folk tale (беларускія народныя казкі) is an oral narrative of the Belarusian people, using artistic fiction to carry instructive meaning, with tales of animals, wonder, and everyday life.
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (Беларуская грэка-каталіцкая царква) is an Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine tradition, born of the 1596 Union of Brest and restored in 1990.
Belarusian Gymnasium in Vilnius
The Belarusian Gymnasium in Vilnius (Віленская беларуская гімназія) is a school in Vilnius, Lithuania, teaching in Belarusian. Founded in 1919, it reopened in 1994 as Lithuania's only Belarusian-language school.
Belarusian language
Belarusian (беларуская мова) is an East Slavic language co-official with Russian in Belarus, with about 7 million speakers, a 32-letter Cyrillic alphabet, UNESCO vulnerable status, and two written norms, narkamauka and tarashkievitsa.
Belarusian language law of 1990
The Belarusian language law of 1990 made Belarusian the sole state language of the Byelorussian SSR, in force from September 1990 until reversed in the 1990s.
Belarusian modernism
Belarusian modernism is the modernist movement in early twentieth-century Belarusian literature and art, seen in the rival 1920s groups Maladniak and Uzvyshenne and later reevaluated under Soviet criticism in the 1930s.
Belarusian national revival
The Belarusian national revival (Беларускае нацыянальнае адраджэнне) is a cultural and political movement reviving Belarusian language and culture, with waves in the 1900s, the 1920s, and after 2020.
Belarusian partisan movement
The Belarusian partisan movement was the Soviet-led armed resistance against the German occupation of the Belarusian SSR, 1941 to 1944, growing to about 374,000 fighters.
Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Hramada
The Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Hramada was a revolutionary-democratic organization of peasants and workers in Western Belarus, active in interwar Poland from 1925 to 1927 and led by Branisłaŭ Taraškievič.
Belarusian PEN Centre
The Belarusian PEN Centre, also known as PEN Belarus, is an association of independent Belarusian writers founded in 1989 and dissolved by court order in 2021.
Belarusian People's Republic (Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка)
Belarusian People's Republic (Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка, BNR), also Belarusian Democratic Republic: unrecognized state proclaimed in Minsk on 25 March 1918 under German occupation; its Rada has been a government in exile since 1919, still active today.
Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front (Беларускі Народны Фронт, БНФ), founded in 1988 and led by Zianon Pazniak, was the main Belarusian opposition movement behind independence in 1991.
Belarusian Premier League
Belarusian Premier League (Вышэйшая ліга, Vysheyshaya Liga), also BETERA Premier League: top football division of Belarus, founded 1992, spring-autumn single-year seasons, 16 teams; kept playing through COVID-19 in 2020; BATE Borisov its only Champions League group-stage club.
Belarusian realism
Belarusian realism is the realist literary method in Belarusian literature, beginning with Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich in the 19th century and later led by Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas.
Belarusian Renaissance
The Belarusian Renaissance (Беларускае адраджэнне) was a national and cultural revival of the Belarusian people, running from the second half of the 1800s to the early 1900s.
Belarusian ruble
The Belarusian ruble (беларускі рубель) is the official currency of Belarus, issued by the National Bank, divided into 100 kopecks, and redenominated in 1994, 2000, and 2016.
Belarusian Socialist Hramada
The Belarusian Socialist Hramada (Беларуская сацыялістычная грамада) was a left-leaning Belarusian political party, the first of its kind, active from 1902 to 1918 and a leader of the national revival.
Belarusian Soviet literature
Belarusian Soviet literature is the Belarusian-language writing of the Byelorussian SSR from 1919 to 1991, shaped by socialist realism and ending with Vasil Bykaŭ's war prose.
Belarusian State University
Belarusian State University, also known as BSU (Belarusian: Белару́скі дзяржа́ўны ўніверсітэ́т), is the oldest and leading university of Belarus, founded in Minsk in 1921 and ranked first nationally.
Belarusian symbolism
Belarusian symbolism (Belarusian: сімвалізм) is the Symbolist current in early 20th-century Belarusian poetry and the national symbols, like the Pahonia and white-red-white flag, in its literature.
Belarusianization
Belarusianization (Belarusian: беларусізацыя) is the promotion of the Belarusian language and culture, most notably the official Soviet policy in the Byelorussian SSR from 1924 to 1929.