One example of 19th century Russification was the replacement of the Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Belarusian languages by Russian in those areas, which became part of the Russian Empire after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

In mid-2009 there were more than 22, 300 Belarusian Web sites, of which roughly 13, 500 domain names were registered with the top-level domain name ‘‘. by ’’.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

The Ruthenian language, corresponding to today's Belarusian and Ukrainian, was then called Russian, and was used as one of the chancellery languages by Lithuanian monarchs.

Today, the standard Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Lithuanian vodkas are 40 % alcohol by volume ( ABV ) or 80 proof.

In May 2012, a Belarusian production directed by Anastasia Grinenko ( Belarus ), with choreography by Paul Emerson ( USA ) and Dmitry Yakubovich ( Belarus ) opened at the Belarus State Musical Theatre.

Between the 9th and 12th centuries, the Principality of Polotsk ( northern Belarus ) emerged as the dominant center of power on Belarusian territory, with a lesser role played by the Principality of Turaŭ in the south.

Due to military conquest and dynastic marriages the West Ruthenian ( Belarusian ) principalities were acquired by the expanding Lithuania, beginning with the rule of Lithuanian King Mindaugas ( 1240 – 63 ).

The first Belarusian book printed with the first printing press in the Cyrillic alphabet was published in Prague, in 1517, by Francysk Skaryna, a leading representative of the renaissance Belarusian culture.

Afterwards, it was replaced with the Polish language, commonly spoken by the upper classes of Belarusian society.

The last attempt to save the Commonwealth's independence was a Polish – Belarusian – Lithuanian national uprising of 1794 led by Tadeusz Kościuszko, however it was eventually quenched.

Thus a new period in Belarusian history started, with all its lands annexed by the Russian Empire, in a continuing endeavor of Russian tsars of " gathering the Rus lands " started after the liberation from the Tatar yoke by Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia.

German administration allowed schools with Belarusian language, previously banned in Russia ; a number of Belarusian schools were created until 1919 when they were banned again by the Polish military administration.

Some time in 1918 or 1919, Sergiusz Piasecki returned to Belarus, joining Belarusian anti-Soviet units, the " Green Oak " ( in Polish, Zielony Dąb ), led by Ataman Wiaczesław Adamowicz ( pseudonym: J. Dziergacz ).

As part of the Nazis ' effort to combat the enormous Belarusian resistance during World War II, special units of local collaborationists were trained by the SS's Otto Skorzeny to infiltrate the Soviet rear.

The Belarusian economy was completely devastated by the events of the war.

The effects of the Chernobyl accident in Belarus were dramatic: about 50, 000 km² ( or about a quarter of the territory of Belarus ) formerly populated by 2. 2 million people ( or a fifth of the Belarusian population ) now require permanent radioactive monitoring ( after receiving doses over 37 kBq / m² of caesium-137 ).

Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.

According to the 1999 Belarus Census, the Belarusian language is declared as a " language spoken at home " by about 3, 686, 000 Belarusian citizens ( 36. 7 % of the population ) as of 1999.

In other Slavonic languages using the Cyrillic script, these sounds are represented by Ye ( Е е ), which in Russian and Belarusian represents in initial and post-vocalic position or else and palatalizes the preceding consonant.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

The only producer of broadcast news is the Belarusian Television and Radio Company ( BT ).

The " Belarusian Internet " is widely called ByNet ( Байнет ) ( as an analogue of Runet ).

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus ( Russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the government organization that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus.

Between Belarusian and Ukrainian there is the Polesian dialect, which shares features from the both languages.

East Polesian is a transitional step between Belarusian and Ukrainian on the one hand, and between South Russian and Ukrainian on the other hand.

These letters are unique to Esperanto, though it also has a letter ŭ that is shared with the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet.

The name Glagolitic in Belarusian is глаголіца ( hłaholica ), Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian глаголица ( glagolica ), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian glagoljica / глагољица, Czech hlaholice, Polish głagolica, Slovene, Slovak hlaholika, and Ukrainian глаголиця ( hlaholyća ).

Kutia is a sweet grain pudding, traditionally served in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian and Polish cultures.

* 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

In the Cyrillic alphabet used for the Belarusian language, ‹ Ў › is pronounced like English / w /.

Gretzky's ancestry is typically described as English on his mother's side and either Belarusian, Ukrainian, or Polish on his father's side.

The Belarusian ethnos is traced at least as far in time as other East Slavs.

Until the 17th century, the Ruthenian language, the predecessor of modern Belarusian, was used in Grand Duchy as a chancery language, that is the language used for official documents.

: biełaruskaja mova ), sometimes referred to as White Ruthenian, is the language of the Belarusian people.

Belarusian is one of the East Slavic languages, and shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group.

Its predecessor stage is known as Old Belarusian ( 14th to 17th centuries ), in turn descended from Old East Slavic ( 10th to 13th centuries ).

The Armed Forces of Belarus ( Belarusian: Узброеныя сілы Рэспублікі Беларусь-УС РБ, Uzbrojenyja sily Respubliki Bielaruś, Russian: Boopyжённыe cилы Pecпyблики Бeлapycь, Vooruzhennye sily Respubliki Belarus ) consist of the Ground Forces and the Air and Air Defense Forces, all under the command of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

:* Belarusian, Bulgarian, Russian and Ukrainian have the letter й.

:* Belarusian and Russian have the letter ё.

Current East Slavic languages are Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian.

While Belarusian and Southern Russian form a continuous area, making it virtually impossible to draw a line between two languages.

Category: Russian people of Belarusian descent

The Serbian form has parallels in virtually all Slavic languages: Bulgarian and Macedonian вампир ( vampir ), Croatian vampir, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and ( perhaps East Slavic-influenced ) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( upyr < nowiki ></ nowiki >), Russian упырь ( upyr < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), Belarusian упыр ( upyr ), from Old East Slavic упирь ( upir < nowiki >'</ nowiki >).

Currently these include the Orthodox of the Belarusian exarchate ; the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ; the Latvian, the Moldovan, the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate.

The dialect of Zietela ( Belarusian Дзятлава, Russian Дятлово, Yiddish Zietil, Polish Zdzięcioł ) was of particular interest.