HU OSA 300-85-12:28/4

Geography: Belarus

География: Белоруссия [Беларусь]

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Textual

English, German, Russian

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excerpted resource, news item, press survey

Newspaper clippings, interviews with Party officials and people’s deputees, transcripts of Soviet TV programs and Radio Liberty programs. Topics: nuclear weapons in Belarus, spoiled food in markets, public opinion in Belarus, crime, Chernobyl accident and its repercussions, evacuations, protests in Minsk, Catholic church, Orthodox church, legislation on national language in Belarus, rehabilitation of Stalin's repressions victims, ecological problems, national question in Belarus, Glasnost', Perestroika, dispersal of protests, history of Belarus, religious revival in Belarus, human rights group in Belarus, Supreme Council, economic reforms, labor unions, new Union Treaty, Latvian Parliament, new citizenship law in Belarus, political disillusionment of activists, people’s deputies elections, electoral system in Belarus, refugees, KGB, Baltic presidents meeting with Yeltsin, the declaration of Belarusian sovereignty, interethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan and Nagorno-Karabakh, Association for sexual minorities, independent public library in Moscow, anniversary of the battle of Grunwald, antisemitism, Gorbachev’s visit to the U.S., strikes in Gomel region, Tatar national minority in Belarus, Belarusian emigres.