Considered the last dictatorship in
Europe, under the ferm rule of president
Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since
1994,
Belarus is one of the least know
European countries, considered by most as a puppet state of
Russia. But nations are about people and belarusians are worth discovering.
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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Belarus, a former member of the
USSR.
Today it remains a country with a heavy soviet atmosphere, a state-controlled economy, censorship and fixed elections. However
Minsk, the capital of Belarus, is a cosmopolitan city, elegant and well maintained. Tourists in Minsk can find several attractions and generally don’t feel oppressed in any way.
More information about the video content bellow:
1. The longest street in Belarus -
Independence Avenue in Minsk is
15 km long. Throughout its history, it not only grew in length and width, but also changed it’s name of 14 times. This is one of the last mainline neoclassical ensembles in the world of architecture, one of the longest street in Europe, and a Bidder for inclusion in the
List of
World Cultural Heritage by
UNESCO.
2. Belarus still applies the death penalty.
The ultimate punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries, except for Belarus and
Kazakhstan.
Capital punishment can be issued for crimes that occur against the state or against individuals.
3.
The national Library of Belarus is 72.
6 meters high and weighs 115
000 tonnes.
Total area -
112,600 m². The building has 22 floors, it can seat about 2,000 readers and features a 500-seat conference hall.
As of 2009 it is
the only structure in Minsk with a public observation deck.
4. Minsk
Botanical Garden is the 3rd largest in Europe, after the
Royal Botanic Garden Kew in
London, and
Real Jardin Botanico in
Madrid. The
Area of the Botanical Garden is 96 hectares. It dates from 1932 and feature some 9,000 different species.
5.
Nobody would guess that in
1939 - 1946 Minsk was the jazz capital of the USSR. During these years,
Eddie Rosner, a
German Jew who came to Minsk after the manifestation of
Hitler's attitude toward
Jews, worked in Minsk
Art. Since 1946,
Jazz was banned in the
Soviet Union, and Rosner was sent to the
Gulag for 10 years. Since jazz was considered an
American movement, all traces of it were oppressed by the soviet authorities.
6. Belarus was one of the first nations in Europe to have its own printed
Bible (1517). Belarus’ first printer Frantsysk Skorina started his publishing business in
Prague where he printed 23 illustrated Bibles. They were published in the old
Belarusian language. In the early 1520s he moved to
Vilno where he founded a publishing house. It printed the Small
Travel Guide and
Book of the
Apostles. Frantsysk Skorina's works were distinguished by high print quality, unique illustrations and distinctive typefaces.
7.
Belarusian is one of the
East Slavic languages and shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent,
Russian,
Ukrainian, and Belarusian are mutually intelligible. Its predecessor stage is known as
Old Belarusian (
14th to
17th centuries), in turn descended from
Old East Slavic (10th to
13th centuries). The question of whether contemporary Belarusian and Russian (as well as Ukrainian and
Rusyn) are dialects of a single language or separate languages is not entirely decided by linguistic factors alone, since there is a high degree of mutual intelligibility.
More
Info:
http://mynativebelarus.blogspot.ro/
2012/07/interesting-facts-about-belarus
.html
http://www.insidebelarus.com/article/intesresting_facts_about_minsk
http://www.belarus.by/en/about-belarus/did-you-know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Belarus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Belarus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_language
Music:
Ketsa – A different dimension
http://freemusicarchive.org
Images:
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http://realt.onliner.by/2012/12/03/fotofakt-cirk-i-prospekt
http://urban3p.ru/blogs/29224/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/
2015/04/the-ultimate-punishment-a-beginners-guide-to-the-death-penalty/
http://mynativebelarus.blogspot.ro/2012/08/national-library-of-belarus.html
http://www.funnybuildings.com/pagegal.php?id=344
http://www.funnybuildings.com/pagegal.php?id=344
http://avemey.com/photos.php?lang=en&page;=22
http://www.dannyboyjazzandblues.com/
http://utahmusicians.org/archives/
http://arthopper.org/looks-good-on-paper-looks-good-in-person/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francysk_Skaryna
- published: 16 May 2015
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