Belarusians are experiencing a new wave of Russification as Moscow expands its economic, political and cultural dominance to ...
Russia under the czars and in the era of the Soviet Union imposed its language, symbols and cultural institutions on Belarus ... the white-red-white national flag replacing a version of the ...
Lukashenko speaks only Russian, and government officials often don't use their native tongue. Schoolchildren perform at a ceremony marking Belarus’ holiday honoring the state flag and emblem in ...
(AP Photo, File) FILE - Protesters with old Belarusian national flags march at ... demonstrations in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 10, 2020. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin ...