{"id":12750,"date":"2023-07-03T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12750"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:54:23","slug":"key-facts-about-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Belarus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>landlocked country of eastern Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering countries<\/strong>: It borders <strong>Russia<\/strong> to the northeast, <strong>Ukraine<\/strong> to the south, <strong>Poland<\/strong> to the west, and <strong>Lithuania<\/strong> and <strong>Latvia<\/strong> to the northwest.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>capital and largest city is Minsk.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Spoken languages are Belarusian (official) 24%, but 70% speak Russian (official).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>E<strong>thnic Belarusians, who speak a language closely related to Russian and Ukrainian, make up more than three-quarters of the population.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relief<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Much of the country consists of <strong>flat lowlands separated by low level-topped hills and uplands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About 40% of the country is forested; Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest<\/strong> is one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European plain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The greater part of the republic lies in the basin of the Dnieper<\/strong>\u2014which flows across Belarus from north to south on <strong>its way to the Black Sea<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The extreme <strong>southwestern corner of Belarus is drained by the Mukhavyets<\/strong>, a <strong>tributary of the Bug (Buh) River<\/strong>, which forms part of the border with Poland and flows to the Baltic Sea.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate<\/strong>: It has a <strong>cool continental climate moderated by maritime influences<\/strong> from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Until it became independent in 1991,<strong> Belarus, formerly known as Belorussia or White Russia, was the smallest of the three Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union<\/strong> (the larger two being Russia and Ukraine).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Which were the Slavic republics included in the Soviet Union?<\/h3>\n<p>On December 30, 1922, in post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Armenian republics).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/videos\/news\/russiafriendly-belarus-embassy-vandalised-in-netherlands-as-wagner-boss-exile-begins-watch-101688326485020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia-friendly Belarus&#8217; Embassy Vandalised in Netherlands as Wagner Boss&#8217; Exile Begins | Watch<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus is a landlocked country of eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}