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Always without their own view of the sea, with a fertile but almost completely flat territory and without natural borders, squeezed between the most powerful, organized and warlike peoples, the Belarusians (or white Russians, with the prevailing color in traditional clothes) have never their national identity is fully expressed in a sovereign form, even though it has been distinct for at least seven centuries from that of neighboring peoples. Only in 1918, following the upheavals caused by the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, was Belarus able to adopt its own partially autonomous administrative structure within the Soviet Union; and only in 1991, with the final collapse of the USSR, gained full political independence. But even after this historical turning point, the problem of defining one’s own national identity, especially in relation to neighboring Russia and, to a much lesser extent, Ukraine and Poland, has not been resolved and has continued to dominate the collective life of the new state.; and this both in politics, marked by the contrast between those who want a return to the orbit of the Russian Federation and those who would instead want to bring the country closer to the West, as well as in the economy, still largely oriented towards integration with the Russian one. And while in several former Soviet states, after independence, pro-Western nationalist and liberal tendencies prevailed, accompanied by entry into the EU and NATO, in Belarus throughout the first fifteen years of independent life the opposite trend prevailed, marked by various federation projects with Russia, by an authoritarian system of power, by state control over vast sectors of the economy and by strong tensions with countries westerners. According to COUNTRYAAH, Belarus is a nation in Eastern Europe, the capital city of which is Minsk. The latest population of Belarus is 9,449,334. MYSTERYAROUND: Lists and descriptions of main religions and beliefs in Belarus, including religion demographics and statistics on Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.
CLIMATE
The territory consists of a vast plain, undulating to the North by moraine deposits culminating to the W of Minsk, in the Dzeržinskaja hill (346 m), and for large swampy stretches to the South, crossed by the rivers Dvina Occidentale to the North, Dnepr (with tributaries Berezina, Drut and Sož) to the E and Pripyat to the South and irrigated by the Bug-Dnepr canal; it is also dotted with many (over 11,000) small lakes. It has a continental climate, with cool and humid summers, cold winters (average January temperature in Minsk: –5 ° C) and not abundant rainfall (500-700 mm per year) but often snowy.