Belarus by David R. Marples, Veronica Laputska - 9780197772959

BelarusWhat Everyone Needs to Know\nAuthor(s): David R. Marples, Veronica Laputska\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197772959, 978-0197772959\nSynopsis\nRecent events have thrust Belarus into the international spotlight, but for years after declaring independence in\n1991, Belarus remained a little-known republic in the West, despite its important geostrategic position between Poland and Russia, and as a conduit for Russian energy supplies to central Europe. In the late Soviet period, it was best known as a victim of the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, which covered its territory in dangerous radionuclides of cesium, strontium, and iodine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the unprecedented mass demonstrations after President Alexander Lukashenka declared himself the victor in his 2020 presidential race against challenger Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and the ensuing mass repres.