Brest Belarus
Belarus (10/04)
While archeological evidence points to settlement in today's Belarus at least 10,000 years ago, recorded history begins with settlement by Baltic and Slavic tribes in the early centuries A.D. With distinctive features by the ninth century, the emerging Belarusian state was then absorbed by Kievan Rus' in the 9th century. Belarus was later an integral part of what was called Litva, which included today's Belarus as well as today's Lithuania. Belarus was the birthplace of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Belarusian was the state language of the Grand Duchy until 1697, in part owing to the strong flowering of Belarusian culture during the Renaissance through the works of leading Belarusian humanists such as Frantzisk Skaryna. Belarus was the site of the Union of Brest in 1597, which created the Greek Catholic Church, for long the majority church in Belarus until suppressed by the Russian empire, and the birthplace of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who played a key role in the American Revolution. Occu ... [Read More]
Belarus
Although the Government did not keep statistics or report on cases of child abuse, there were instances of child abuse. However, there did not appear to be a societal pattern of abuse of children. The press reported that the authorities in Pinsk, Brest region, opened a shelter on December 31 for children who had been removed from abusive or negligent homes. Pinsk was the third city in the Brest region to open a social orphanage; the other two were located in Brest and Baranovichi. With the assistance of UNICEF, a network of 23 NGOs working for and with children has been established. UNICEF's counterpart NGO, the Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs, implemented a project entitled University of Child Rights, a peer-to-peer child rights education program, which involved a lawyer, a teacher, and a trainer holding training seminars for regional coordinators who each in turn trained teachers and high school students. These teams then conducted seminars in high schools. These ... [Read More]
International Adoption Belarus
Fax: 375 – 17-231-0617 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS: A prospective parent may be single, divorced or widowed. A prospective parent must be at least 16 years older than the adoptive child. Single parents are permitted to adopt a child of either sex. RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS: There are no residency requirements for Belarusian adoptions. [Read More]
2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Belarus
Only the state run radio and the state-run television networks ONT and Belarusian Television (BT) broadcast nationwide. Russian channels NTV and RTR were generally available nationwide, although in many parts of the country only through pay cable services. However, their news programs were at times blocked from broadcast. Broadcasts from other countries, including Poland, and Lithuania, could be received in some parts of the country; however, the Brest local government removed three Polish channels from local cable providers in December. The reporting of both ONT and BT was biased heavily in favor of the Government and sharply critical of opposition politicians and organizations, and both failed to provide opposing viewpoints. This bias became more pronounced before the October 17 parliamentary elections and referendum. The BAJ reported that state channels provided only positive reviews of the President and Government. State owned media, including television, radio, and print, continue ... [Read More]
USIA-Affiliated Educational Advising Centers in East/Central Europe and NIS
breic@iirc.belpak.brest.by ... e-mail: valeri@uniway.belpak.brest.by ... BELARUS BREST - Soros EAC ... [Read More]
Belarus
Several independent journalists were beaten by unknown assailants or by the authorities during the year. On March 17, Oleg Suprunyuk, a correspondent for Radio Liberty and deputy chief editor of the local independent newspaper Brestsky Kuryer, was beaten by unknown assailants and hospitalized. On May 4, unknown assailants also attacked Yuri Grimenyuk, an independent journalist in Grodno. On September 8, Stanislav Pochobut, another independent journalist from Grodno, was beaten by police officers after police stopped him. Pochobut was also one of three journalists detained by local authorities in the town of Pogranichny prior to the regime's destruction of a Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox church (see Section 2.c.) ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Administratively, the country is divided into six regions with centers in the cities of Minsk, Brest, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilov, and Vitebsk. Each region is then subdivided into smaller administrative districts, about 118 in all. ... [Read More]
Reports, International Education Week 2001
Among other activities undertaken during the week were the following:American Tests for Entering Universities: presentation prepared by education advisers (November 12, 2001)Seminar for the teachers of English "Importance of Cross-Cultural Competencies in Teaching English" (November 13, 2001)How to Enter an American University; Studies and Life at an American University: presentation by U.S. Government program alumni (November 13, 2001)Economic Education and Internet: presentation by Natalia Shapo, president of the Youth Entrepreneurship Support and Development Center (November 13, 2001)On-line Internet chat for FLEX alumni. The rationale for the chat was to give FLEX alumni in all the country a chance to "meet" on the net and exchange information on their home experience. (November 14, 2001)Distance Education Resources for Library Information Specialists: presentation by Violetta Vutsans, Information Resource Center of the U.S. Emb ... [Read More]
Office of Academic Exchange Programs: European Programs Branch – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs – U.S. Department of State
- Lecture "Diversity in American Society: Problems of Minorities," February 24th (Brest) ... [Read More]
IEW > Events
Belarus teachers in Minsk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Brest, Gomel, Polotsk and Molodechno will participate in 2-days iEARN/IATP seminars. The main goal of the seminars is to encourage collaborative iEARN project work in new iEARN schools of different Belarus regions. During the seminars, on-line teachers chat will be organized to establish relationship among teachers and to discuss the main problems facing schools while working on iEARN projects. ... [Read More]
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