Belarus

In the early 1990’s came the fall of the famous U.S.S.R. in Europe/Asia. The U.S.S.R. stood for the United Socialist Soviets Republic that had control over 15 various countries for many years in their conquest of promoting communism. In 1991 it all came apart, and with it the split of its nations. Belarus is most notably one of these former Soviet satellites that has since struggled in developing democracy in their country. Belarus is listed as a republican government by many but the truth is that the power does not lie with its people. Known as the last dictatorship in Europe, Belarus has developed an autocratic government under its current president and leader Aleksander Lukashenka. Since their first and only truly fair election in 1994,…

The absolute horror of the Holocaust has made it difficult and sometimes controversial to depict it in various forms of media. Two such works of art, Son of Saul and Maus, take very unique approaches to trying to capture the experiences of the Holocaust. Both works share key themes such as the importance of family in maintaining hope and the perpetrator conflict with Jews and Poles. Of course, the two works aren’t exactly the same and there are some major thematic differences. Perhaps the most…

The country of Poland has undergone a multitude of change since the end of WWII, to understand this you must first understand the Polish culture before the war and then compare to everyday life now. The word culture is interpreted as a set of values, these values are goals, achievements, practices, social practices, religious practices, and in general a way of life. The Polish exhibited a high degree of social division before 1939. Six different classes or groups take part of the Polish…

flat, hills, and mountains. They also have cultural practices that they don’t have in America and some are completely different than here. My family and I are not like the Poland culture we only do a few things that the Polish do. Poland is a very interesting country and the things that they practice and do are not like here in America. There are really cool and interesting facts about Poland. The population there is about 36,653,144 people. Some of the main industries are machine building,…

loss in support; it is actually helping him become more trusted by the public. Figure 1: Pew Research Center Survey Results Many adult Russians were raised during the Soviet Union and have a sense of nostalgia for those times. They perceive the world through the Soviet education they received. As mentioned earlier, 69% of Russians agree that it is a bad thing the Soviet Union dissolved (Simmons, Stokes, and Poushter 2015). They remember the global power and influence they had, which…

Mac Pollard Instructor Will Dawkins Writing 121 19 October 2014 Joseph Conrad was born on December 3, 1857, in Berdichev, Ukraine. His parents, Apollo and Evelina were Polish patriots apart of the noble class who conspired against the oppressive Russian rule of the time. As a consequence, they were arrested and forced to live in the Russian province of Vologda with their 4-year-old son, Joseph Conrad. They Conrad's education was erratic. First, he started being tutored by his literary father.…

Mercy Jane H. Obido September 21, 2015 History of Russia (A1) “Tale of the Bygone Years” Book Review “The Russian Primary Chronicle” also known as the “Tale of the Bygone Years (Povest’ Vremennykh Let)”, “Chronicle of Nestor”, or “Kiev Chronicle”, is all about the key events that shaped the history of Kievan Rus’ dated from 850 to 1110, from the settlement of the Slavs along the Dnieper River, the fighting with their neighboring tribes to the invitation of the Scandinavian Prince Rurik to…

The Soviet Union was established in 1922 and lasted until approximately 1991. From 1940 to 1991, the Soviet Union was made up of fifteen republics.Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Russia began to expand its territory. Then in 1922 the Bolsheviks controlled Russia and formed the Soviet Union, a communist state comprised of fifteen republics. Russia was th largest and most powerful of these. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia were among the republics of the…

This left Belarus crippled, with 20% of the land used for agriculture left contaminated. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants had to leave their homes. To this day, thousands more have been affected by illnesses caused by radiation, like cancer and cardiovascular disease. Hundreds of millions of dollars was lost be Belarus due to this disaster. 7. Radioactive rain fell as far as Britain Despite Belarus being the most affected country, countries all over Europe experienced some sort of nuclear…

3. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT COMPANY “VNESHINTOURIST” The Vneshintourist Company has been working at the tourist services’ market since 1996. The firm is created by group of the employees having a wide experience in system of "Intourist". "Vneshintourist" is one of the leading tour operators of the Republic of Belarus and enters at the top 10 ratings of the largest travel companies of the Republic. Many Belarusian agencies, firms of the foreign and neighboring countries in more than 50 world’s…