he Soviet Union was a multi-ethnic state which accommodated numerous nationalities within one political formation. Post-war developments of the official national policies in the USSR were characterized by the further rapprochement and merger of Soviet peoples and by the creation of a single Soviet culture. The ethnic composition and territorial division of the USSR predetermined a special role for Russian culture and language as tools f... Болей »

This Working Paper discusses two different systems for the romanization of Belarusian geographical and personal names. The romanization of geographical names is based on the historically-developed traditional Belarusian Roman script, known as lacinka. It is scientifically-based, linguistically sound, and since 2012 approved by the UNCSGN to serve as the international system for the romanization of Belarusian geographical names. Being m... Болей »

BELARUSIAN REVIEW (ISSN 1064-7716) is the oldest continuously published journal in English language fully devoted to Belarus: to its current political and economic situation, culture and history, as well as to Belarusian diaspora. Болей »

Author: ANDRZEJ TICHOMIROW, M.A. in History (2000, Janka Kupala State University, Hrodna) and in EastCentral European and Post-Soviet Studies (2004, University of Warsaw), currently PhD candidate at Ludwik and Aleksander Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw). His research interests include history of ideas in the 19th century, historical and contemporary national minorities in Belarus, and... Болей »