Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, was a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
== History ==
=== Post-Soviet Independence ===
In March 1990, elections for seats in the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR took place. Though the pro-independence Belarusian Popular Front took only 10% of the seats, the populace was content with the selection of the delegates. Belarus declared itself sovereign on 27 July 1990 by issuing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. With the support of the Communist Party, the country's name was changed to the Republic of Belarus on 25 August 1991. Stanislav Shushkevich, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, met with Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine on 8 December 1991 in Belavezhskaya Pushcha to formally declare the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Two-round elections for the presidency on (24 June 1994 and 10 July 1994) catapulted the formerly unknown Alexander Lukashenko into national prominence. He garnered 45% of the vote in the first round and 80% in the second, defeating Vyacheslav Kebich who received 14% of the vote. Lukashenko was re-elected in 2001, in 2006 and again in 2010. Western governments, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have criticized Lukashenko's authoritarian style of government.
=== Ukraine War ===
See Full Article: Ukraine War
=== Annexation to Russia ===
== Government and Politics ==
=== Administrative Regions ===
=== Foreign Relations ===
== Economy ==
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