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NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996 (3101 words) |
 | Belorussians and Russians live in Belarus together often creating mixed families, that is basically due to linguistic and ethnic closeness of the two peoples. |
| Belorussian national radicals in 1990 understood that rude anti-Russian policy would not be accepted by Belorussian population which overwhelmingly voted for preservation of the Soviet Union. |
| Belorussian dependence on Russian raw materials is of a comprehensive character, and some of the problems may not be resolved by purely free-market economy methods. |
| BACKGROUND Belarus (10814 words) |
| The population of the Belorussian SSR was jolted into national awareness in the late 1980s with the occurrence of one disaster and the discovery of another. |
| The territory of the Belorussian SSR was enlarged in both 1924 and 1926 by the addition of Belorussian ethnographic regions that had become part of Russia under the Treaty of Riga. |
| In the early 1920s, Belorussian language and culture flourished, and the language was promoted as the official medium of the communist party and the government as well as of scholarly, scientific, and educational establishments. |
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