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The sites described in this section provide general information and links to metasites/portals of internet resources concerning Belarus.
About Belarus (http://www.about-belarus.info)
Contains general information about Belarus as well as a directory of Web sites, ordered by subject.
AdmiNet Belarus (http://admi.net/world/by/)
Links to a wide variety of topics including cities and town, art and culture, environment, finance, industry, travel, education, defense, and government.
Belarus.net (http://www.belarus.net)
A comprehensive source of information about life, business, politics, culture, people, science, mass media, and more.
Belarus Online (http://www.belarus-online.com)
Include links to business, media, politics, guides, photos, people, and more--with language noted next to site.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Belarus (http://www.britannica.com/search?query=belarus&ct=&fuzzy=N)
Provides useful information and Web sites.
Interesting WWW Sites in and
about Belarus (http://www.ac.by/country/index.html)
Links to a variety of sites with categories ranging from general information, people and society, history and famous personalities, transport and communications, and Web sites, catalogs and search engines. From the National Academy of Sciences, Belarus. In Belarusian, Russian, and English.
Internet Resources on Belarus.
School of Slavonic and East European Studies. University College London (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/belarus.htm)
Presents a collection of resources on Belarus. Offers access to information on the country's government, economics, culture, and society. Links to news, political parties, academic institutions, libraries, and archives.
Open Directory Project.
Regional: Europe: Belarus (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Belarus/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines.
REENIC: Belarus (http://reenic.utexas.edu/countries/belarus.html)
College of Liberal Arts. University of Texas at Austin
Access to academic databases and information services worldwide. In English.
REESWeb (http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/)
World Wide Web Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library. Maintained by the Center for Russian and East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Includes REESBrowse, an indexed collection of annotated links which may be searched by subject, culture, time period, and region.
U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Belarus (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html)
General information and statistics about Belarus, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Library of Congress.
Federal Research Division. Belarus, and Moldova, country studies. (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/bytoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1995 an extensive handbook entitled Belarus and Moldova: country studies. The text and selected graphics of the 254-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)
U.S. State Department. Bureau
of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
Virtual Guide to Belarus (http://www.belarusguide.com/main/index.html)
Features information about the Republic of Belarus in eastern central Europe, which was formerly a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Discusses Belarus' history, independence, culture, industries, legal system, and politics. Describes its cities, geography, and tourist trade. Offers access to English-Belarusian dictionaries. Provides information about Belarus genealogy resources. Links to a chat room.
Directories
Area codes of the Cities of the exUSSR (http://phonecodes.narod.ru)
Select a city from an alphabetical list.
National Symbols
Belarus. Historical
Flag (1918, 1991-1995) (http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/by%5F1991.html)
Flags of the World:
Belarus (http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/flags/by.html)
Information on the flags and national symbols of Belarus.
Statistical Resources
CIFP--Country indicators for foreign
policy (http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/)
An ongoing effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social, and cultural environments of countries around the world. The data set provides global overviews, issue-based perspectives, and country performance measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. Presents statistical data in the above issue areas, in the form of more than 100 performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning 1985 to 2000 for most indicators. Registration optional but not required. From Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
InfoNation
Data (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e%5Finfonation.htm)
Numerous statistical indicators under the categories of geography, economy, population, and social indicators. Select up to seven countries and four statistical categories for easy comparison. Maintained by the United Nations.
Main Macroeconomic Indicators
of Belarus (http://www.cisstat.com/eng/bel.htm)
From the Interstate Statistical Committee, Commonwealth of Independent States.
Ministry of Statistics
and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus (http://www.belstat.gov.by/homep/en/main.html)
Information about the ministry, statistics and publications, and other useful links. In Russian and English.
Statistical Resources
on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html)
Provides access to a wide range of sources and tools for collecting, compiling, and understanding social, political, and economic statistics from U.S. and around the world.
World Bank Group: Belarus Data Profile (http://www.worldbank.org.by)
Includes information on the World Bank mission in Belarus-its projects, and programs, news and events, data and statistics, publications and reports, and more.
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