In Minsk there were a dozen privately owned ISP's and in some larger cities Beltelecom's broadband was available.

In 1995 the Military Academy of Belarus was set up on the basis of two military educational institutions-the Minsk Air Defense and Rocket School of the Air Defence Forces and the Minsk Higher Military Command School.

The flag was used widely in a 2007 European March in Minsk as protesters rallied in support of democracy and accession to the EU.

Connick, Jr .' s mother, who died from ovarian cancer, was Jewish ( her parents had immigrated from Minsk, Russia the capital of Belarus and Vienna, Austria ).

* IOI 1990 was held in Minsk, Belarus, Soviet Union, July 15 – 21, 1990

On 10 October 1941 Heydrich was the senior officer at a meeting in Prague that discussed deporting 50, 000 Jewish people from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to ghettos in Minsk and Riga.

In 1920, Sergei was transferred to a command position in Minsk, after success providing propaganda for the October Revolution.

The Soviets devastated city industries, moving the major Polish radio factory Elektrit, along with a part of its labour force, to Minsk in Belarus, where it was renamed the Vyacheslav Molotov Radio Factory, after Stalin's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Located in Belarus, near Minsk and close to the Soviet-Polish border of the time, it was created on 15 March 1932, with the capital at Dzyarzhynsk ( Dzerzhynsk, formerly known as Kojdanów ).

A 10-foot bronze replica of the original Iron Felix statue was placed on the grounds of the military academy in Minsk, Belarus in May 2006.

Minsk was captured by German troops on 21 February 1918.

When Vilnius was captured by Polish forces on 17 April 1919, the capital of the Soviet puppet state Litbel was moved to Minsk.

This met with a Red Army counter-offensive that drove into Polish territory almost to Warsaw, Minsk itself was re-captured by the Soviet Red Army on 11 July 1920 and a new Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was declared on 31 July 1920.

Minsk was captured by the Germans on 28 June 1941.

On 22 June 1944 the huge Soviet offensive Operation Bagration was launched, Minsk was re-captured on 3 July 1944, and all of Belarus was regained by the end of August.

For the defence against the Germans, and the tenacity during the German occupation, the capital Minsk was awarded the title Hero City after the war.

The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century ( 1067 ), when it was noted as a provincial city within the principality of Polotsk.

From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodship in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

From 1919 – 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union.

The geography of Minsk was formed during the two most recent ice ages.

It was formed on March 3, 1975 and initially called as Minsk Raion.

It initially attacked towards Vilnius and was then involved in the first Battle of Minsk.

Minsk has a digital metropolitan network ; waiting lists for telephones are long ; fixed line penetration is improving although rural areas continue to be undeserved ; intercity-Belarus has developed fibre-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities ( 1998 ); Belarus's fibre optics form synchronous digital hierarchy rings through other countries ' systems ; an inadequate analogue system remains operational.

Minsk family of mainframe computers was developed and produced in the Byelorussian SSR from 1959 to 1975.

The ES EVM were developed in Moscow, at the Scientific-Research Center for Electronic Computer Machinery ( НИЦЭВТ ), in Yerevan, and later in Minsk, Belarus, at the Scientific-Research Institute of Electronic Computer Machines ( НИИ ЭВМ ), in Penza Scientific-Research Institute of Computer Machinery ( Пензенский НИИВТ ) and manufactured in Minsk, at Minsk Production Group for Computing Machinery ( Минское производственное объединение вычислительной техники ( МПО ВТ )), in Penza, at Penza Electronic Computer Plant ( Пензенский завод ВЭМ ).

Finland is an active participant in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) and in early 1995 assumed the co-chairmanship of the OSCE's Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and ( allied with the Directorate of Ukraine ) reached Kiev, but then the massive Bolshevik counteroffensive moved the Poles out of most of Ukraine and on the northern front arrived at the outskirts of Warsaw.

Their representative at the Peace of Riga talks opted for leaving Minsk, Berdychiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi and the surrounding areas on the Soviet side of the border, not wanting to allow population shifts National Democrats considered politically undesirable, including what would be a reduced proportion of citizens who were ethnically Polish.

He also spent time in his parents ' native Minsk, later recommending it to O ' Brien as one of his favorite places on Earth.

Polish troops captured Minsk on 8 August 1919.

When on August 8, 1919, the Polish Army captured Minsk, Adamowicz decided to work with them.

Minsk (, ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and Niamiha rivers.

Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest ( upper reaches of the river Nioman ) to the northeast – that is, to Lukomskaye Lake in northwestern.

1127 to Magnus the Strong, King of Västergötland ; second on 18 June 1136 to Volodar Glebovich, Prince of Minsk and Hrodno ; and third in 1148 to King Sverker I of Sweden.

Although independent media remain widely available in Minsk, as part of a continuing crackdown on opposition activity, the authorities stepped up their campaign of harassment against the independent media.

Smolensk is located on the M1 main highway and main railway between Moscow and Minsk.

Other Belarusian cities ’ names are formed on these lines: for example, Minsk ’ s name is derived from the river Menka, Polotsk ’ s – from the Palata river, Vitebsk ’ s – from the Vitba river.

Gomel is situated in the southeastern part of the country, on the right bank of Sozh river, to the South-East from Minsk, to the East from Brest, to the South from Mogilev, to the West from Bryansk and to the North from Chernihiv.

Minsk receives annual precipitation of, of which one third falls during the cold period ( as snow and rain ) and two thirds in the warm period.

Zavodski, Partyzanski and Leninski districts, which are situated in the southeastern part of Minsk, are the most polluted areas in the city.

On December 8, Belarus joined Russia and Ukraine in signing the Minsk Agreement to form the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), which formally put an end to the Soviet Union.

On December 21, Belarus signed the Alma Ata Declaration, which expanded the CIS membership from the original three signatories of the Minsk Agreement to eleven states.

The Bolshevik All-Russian council of Soviets declared the creation of the Western Oblast which consisted of the Vilno, Vitebsk, Mogilev and Minsk guberniyas ( or parts unoccupied by German troops ) to administer the Belarusian lands in the pre-front zone.

Stanisław Grabski, representative of Dmowski's fraction, was in charge of the Treaty of Riga negotiations with the Soviet Union, in which they rejected the Soviet offer of territories needed for the Minsk canton ( Dmowski preferred Poland that would be smaller, but with higher percentage of ethnic Poles ).

In fact, a special parliamentary delegation consisting of six members of the Sejm held a vote on whether to accept the Soviets ' far-reaching concessions, which would leave Minsk on the Polish side of the border.

* The Minsk, informal name of Anshei Minsk synagogue in Toronto which was founded by Russian Jewish emigrants from Minsk.

Kiev, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus were included in the auditions this season which resulted in almost all finalists from that season coming from one of the two countries and no auditions outside of Russia being held in the next season.

Today, Orsha is a major railway node where the Minsk – Moscow crosses the northern Viciebsk line, which branches south to Mogilev and Kryčaŭ.

*: On September 3, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement: " In Russia, which is the co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, received reports with deep concern regarding the clemency of Baku Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of the murder of an Armenian officer with an extreme atrocity in Hungary in the 2004, as well as regarding the preceded decision of the Hungarian authorities to extradite him to Azerbaijan.

On 8 December Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich — respective leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus ( which adopted that name in August 1991 )— as well as the prime ministers of the republics met in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they created the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) and annulled the 1922 union treaty that had established the Soviet Union.

Pavlov's Western Front, which had collapsed under the weight of the attack by the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre during the Battle of Białystok – Minsk.

After takeoff, a message was sent to the other Berlin conspirators by code that Operation Flash was underway, which they expected to take place around Minsk.

From Minsk, it reached Mogilev, which became its general headquarters, and from there Einsatzkommando 8 effected successive killings in Bobruisk, Gomel, Roslavl, and Klintsy systematically attacking the local Jewish communities, and killing the inhabitants.

Following an October 2004 election, which combined a referendum on permitting Lukashenka a third term with parliamentary elections, Lebedko led slightly over a thousand opposition protestors into the streets of Minsk on October 18 and 19.

Kurapaty () is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.

The Central Committee recognizes that the international position of the Russian revolution ( the revolt in the German navy which is an extreme manifestation of the growth throughout Europe of the world Socialist revolution ; the threat of conclusion of peace by the imperialists with the object of strangling the revolution in Russia ) as well as its military position ( the indubitable decision of the Russian bourgeoisie and Kerensky and Co. to surrender Petrograd to the Germans ), and the fact that the proletarian party has gained a majority in the Soviets – all this, taken in conjunction with the peasant revolt and the swing of popular confidence towards our Party ( the elections in Moscow ), and, finally, the obvious preparations being made for a second Kornilov affair ( the withdrawal of troops from Petrograd, the dispatch of Cossacks to Petrograd, the surrounding of Minsk by Cossacks, etc.

In 2006 Dreamlin was first invited to play a gig outside of ex-USSR and later was listed at the biggest open-air event in Belarus, which takes place yearly at Borovaya aero-club near Minsk.

After the French army captured Minsk, General Ignatiev took command of the fort and the city of Babruysk, which served as a holdout for the retreating Russian forces.

In 2007, the band toured in Europe with a show featuring one symphonic orchestra from Minsk, Belarus under the name " Lingua Mortis Orchestra ", and the concert in that August at Wacken Open Air at 80, 000 fans was recorded for a DVD to be included as bonus to their new album called Carved in Stone, which was released on 22 February 2008.

In 1873 it was linked to the world by the Minsk – Vilna railway, which sparked a period of economic recovery of the entire region.