1941–1945 Belarus lost 1/4 of its population in World War 2. On March 15, 1994 the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus was adopted and Belarus was declared a unitary, democratic, social, and law–governed state. The oldest city of Belarus is Polotsk known since 862. The different channels of information, which are essential for both journalists and public in times of crisis, must be restored. As the German forces were in retreat across Europe, the Red Army drove the remaining Germans out of Belarus, and the long rebuilding and recovery process began. In the Medieval Period, the Belarusian land was known as Litva (Litvanie) while the name Belarus was rarely used and applied only to the northeastern part of the current territory. At the end of the 10th century, two principalities emerged, Polotsk and Turov, both dependent on Kievan Russia. Reporters sans frontières - Pour la liberté de l'information, being unstable when polling stations opened. Online freedoms. For three days, specialized software such as TOR or VPNs were needed to access the Internet and circumvent the censorship of certain messaging services and websites. Babruysk, Belarus. A few areas of rolling hills in the west blend into the lowlands. Soon after the war, Belarus was among the UN founders. A government can’t change the course of history by concealing the facts online.” Ruled since 1994 by President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been reelected in the first round every five years, Belarus is ranked 153rd out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2020 World Press Freedom Index.
Don't wait to be deprived of news before defending it! The country's highest point, the Dzerzhinsky Hill, stands at 1,135 ft. (346m). “The Belarusian government’s efforts to stifle the truth and deprive the public of reliable and independent information are deplorable. The first people to inhabit the territory of Belarus appeared 40,000 years ago. The first people to inhabit the territory of Belarus appeared 40,000 years ago. From the 13th to the 16th centuries, the territory of contemporary Belarus became a center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, one of the largest feudal monarchies in Europe. Belarus lost 2,200,000 people in World War 2, more than a quarter of its population. The information ministry has blocked more than 70 websites since 21 August, including the site of Radio Svaboda (the Belarusian service of Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), the site of Belsat (a TV channel run by exile journalists based in Warsaw), the Belarusian sites of The Village and Warsaw-based Euroradio, and the Belarusian version of the Russian alternative media outlet MediaZona. Users trying to connect keep on getting the same message: “Access is limited by decision of the Information Ministry under the law ‘on the media’ of the Republic of Belarus.”. After the Polish–Soviet war, Western Belarus was occupied by Poland, while the eastern regions became part of Soviet Russia (transformed into the Soviet Union in 1922).