page_title: Russification of Belarus
hierarchical_section_title: Russification of Belarus
caption_attribution_description: English: President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko Русский: Президент Белоруссии Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко
context_page_description: Russification of Belarus is a policy of suppressing the use of the Belarusian language and the presence of the Belarusian culture and mentality in various spheres of Belarusian public life by corresponding Russian analogs.
  The policy was carried out by the authorities of the Russian Empire and by the authorities of Soviet Russia. With the gaining to the power of pro-Russian authoritarian Aliaksandar Lukashenka in 1994, the Russification policy was renewed.
  The Russification of Belarus comprises several components:
  Russification of education
  Transfer of education in Belarus to the Russian language
  Teaching through the paradigms of Russian mentality
  Repressions of Belarusian elites standing on the positions of national independence and building a Belarusian state on the basis of Belarusian national attributes
  Soviet repressions in Belarus
  Imposition of Orthodoxy affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church
  Imposition of Russian culture
  Imposition of Russian mentality, anti-Westernism, rejection of the values of a free democratic society
  Artificial deformation of the Belarusian language to bring it closer to Russian
  Narkamauka
context_section_description: Russification of Belarus is a policy of suppressing the use of the Belarusian language and the presence of the Belarusian culture and mentality in various spheres of Belarusian public life by corresponding Russian analogs.
  The policy was carried out by the authorities of the Russian Empire and by the authorities of Soviet Russia. With the gaining to the power of pro-Russian authoritarian Aliaksandar Lukashenka in 1994, the Russification policy was renewed.  
  The Russification of Belarus comprises several components:
  Russification of education
  Transfer of education in Belarus to the Russian language
  Teaching through the paradigms of Russian mentality
  Repressions of Belarusian elites standing on the positions of national independence and building a Belarusian state on the basis of Belarusian national attributes
  Soviet repressions in Belarus
  Imposition of Orthodoxy affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church
  Imposition of Russian culture
  Imposition of Russian mentality, anti-Westernism, rejection of the values of a free democratic society
  Artificial deformation of the Belarusian language to bring it closer to Russian
  Narkamauka
  Maintaining the institutions of law creating conditions for crowding out the Belarusian language
  Destruction or modification of national architecture
  List of architectural monuments of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, destroyed by the authorities of the Russian Empire (in Belarusian)
  List of historical and architectural monuments of Belarus, destroyed by Soviet authorities (in Belarusian)
  List of historical and architectural monuments of Belarus, destroyed the Moscow Patriarchate (in Belarusian)
  Installation of monuments to Russian figures
  Renaming of settlements, streets and other geographical objects in honor of Russian figures or according to Russian tradition
  The dominance of Russian television, Russian products in the media space of Belarus
  Lack of conditions for the use of the Belarusian language in business and documents workflow
caption: Pro-Russian[1] authoritarian[2][3][4][5] president of Belarus Aliaksandar Lukashenka
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