Word: byelorussia
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...year, this program should ensure that Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Byelorussia will have eliminated their nuclear weapons, Perry said...
Much of what the critics say is based on secret documents and firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation in order to prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. Another Byelorussian, writer Ales Adamovich, says local officials ignored the appeals of a physicist to evacuate the area until he showed them that party headquarters itself was contaminated...
...more extensive festival begins tonight at the Harvard Film Archive. Running through March 8, the retrospective "A Salute to the Soviet Republics" will offer rarely-shown movies made in the Ukraine, Byelorussia and other constituent republics of the Soviet Union...
...population numbers approximately 50 million people, of which 2.3 million live in the capital, Kiev. Ukraine is bordered on the south by the Black Sea; on the west and southwest by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania; and on the north and northeast by Byelorussia and Russia. It covers more than 230,000 square miles...
...regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite of Catherine the Great, with ukha, a fisherman's broth.) The author learned many dishes from her grandmother, an emigre from Byelorussia; and in her great-grandfather's butcher shop, she writes, "Marc Chagall played as a child." An assistant professor of Russian literature at Williams College, she has also feasted on native fare as a student in Leningrad and as a guide for a traveling U.S. Department of Agriculture exhibit...