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White Russia

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White Russia

(Placename) another name for Belarus

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White Russia - a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet

Belarus, Belorussia, Byelarus, Byelorussia, Republic of Belarus

CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

capital of Belarus, Minsk - the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Gomel, Homel, Homyel - industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk

Pinsk - a city of southwestern Belarus

Lubavitch - a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century

Dnieper, Dnieper River - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Belorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian - a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia

Translations

Weißrussland

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It was a working-man's home, and the owner was a Slav like himself, a new emigrant from White Russia; he bade Jurgis welcome in his home language, and told him to come to the kitchen-fire and dry himself.

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He told them that the army had nothing but the clothes they stood up in; that their wine was iced; that the dead stood stock-still in the road just where they were; that they had seen White Russia, and that they currycombed the horses there with their teeth; that those who were fond of skating had fine times of it, and people who had a fancy for savory ices had as much as they could put away; that the women were generally poor company; but that the only thing they could really complain of was the want of hot water for shaving.

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"This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Everywhere was the cry: 'There is no bread.We are dying' Millions starved in the streets - but not as the result of crop failure or drought. Eighty years on, the Ukrainian famine exposed by a Welsh journalist, despite Stalin's best efforts to repress it, will be remembered around the world. Darren Devine reports

We are dying." This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Holodomor: Stalin's holocaust in the Ukraine: this is the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor, Josef Stalin's intentional plan to starve to death much of the Ukrainian population. The death toll likely equaled that of the Nazis

Gomez gives DiMaggio a look: what the hell's a White Russia? And DiMaggio gives him a look back: Jesus God, does this guy really not know what's on the schedule for today?

The Heat

This name is composed of "Byelo" and "Russia" which caused confusion among some people due to the different translations of this name, as some documents refer to it as "Free Russia" or "White Russia" or even "Belarussia" while the correct and official name currently being used is Belarus.Various theories exist regarding the etymology of Belarus.

Belarus,C* Strategic Location, Diverse Economy

After an introduction that covers previous research and a first chapter on the history and religion of the Tatars in Lithuania, Poland, and White Russia, the core of the book is a diligent analysis of the BL manuscript, with sections on phonology (including how the Arabic script was adapted to accommodate a Slavic language), morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

Religious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab: A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe. With a Latin-Script Transliteration of the BL Tatar Belarusian Kitab (or 13020) on CD-ROM

We are dying.' "This cry came from every part of Russia, from the Volga, Siberia, White Russia, the North Caucasus and Central Asia.

They all cried 'we are dying'

Why do you think a country tike Luxembourg has such a high minimum wage, white Russia and China have such a tow minimum wage?

Where sweatshops are a dream: a times columnist argues that sweatshop jobs, however awful they seem to us, can be a way out of poverty for millions overseas

Were not the German armies, as they advanced through White Russia and the Ukraine, welcomed at first as liberators, with flowers and crucifixes?

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What is the capital city of the Republic of Belarus, once known as White Russia?