Abstract
The Republic of Belarus is a small territory (207,600 sq km) situated in the heart of Europe, at the crossroads of trade routes from West to East and from North to South. It shares a border with Russia (959 km) in the northeast, Ukraine (891 km) in the south, Poland (605 km) in the east and the Baltic States in the northwest, that is Lithuania (502 km) and Latvia (141 km). The name ‘Belarus’ means ‘white Rus’ and there is still no exact version of its origin. Some historians believe that ‘white’ in old Slavic languages meant ‘free’, pointing to the fact that Belarus was never invaded by the Tartars, unlike the other principalities in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
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© 2003 Yahia Zoubir and François-Serge Lhabitant
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Zoubir, Y., Lhabitant, F.S. (2003). Belarus. In: Doing Business in Emerging Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403943750_1
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