History.

Belarus has a long history. A man came here for the first time nearly 100-40.000 years ago. The evidence of the first primitive sites can be traced back to 28-24.000 years ago. These lands were completely inhabited only 10-8.000 years ago. At the end of the 3d – the beginning of the 2d millennium BC the Indo-European tribes, ancestors of the Slavs and the Balts, came to Belarus.

In the VI-VIII centuries the Belarussian ethos began to form. This led to the appearance of Eastern Slavic ethnic groups of Krivichi, Dregovichi, Radimichi who were a part of ancient Russian nationality and later in the 9^th century formed the state Kievskaja Rus. In the 13^th century the Belarussian and the Lithuanian ethnic territories became the center of formation of one of the biggest feudal monarchies in Europe – the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the middle of 16^th century the Grand Duchy and the Kingdom of Poland united to form a new state – the Rech Pospolitaja (Commonwealth), part of which (including the territory of Belarus) was annexed to the Russian Empire. After the victory of the uprising in October, 1917 in Petrograd, on the 8^th of November the Soviet power came to Minsk. The Belarussian Soviet Socialistic Republic was proclaimed on the 1^st of January, 1919 and in December of 1922 it became a part of the USSR. The Western Belarus which went to Poland in 1921 returned to the BSSR in 1939.

June 22, 1941 – July 28, 1944 – Belarus was invaded by fascist Germany.

July 27, 1990 – adoption of the Declaration about the state sovereignty.

March 15, 1994 – Supreme Soviet accepted the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus according to which it was considered the unitary democratic social constitutional state.

The Republic of Belarus is the member of the UNO and its other institutions, the OSCE, the Central European initiative, , it also develops collaboration with the EU, countries of , South-Western Asia, the Middle East, North and Latin America.

Date: 2015-01-02; view: 822