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  1. Belarus, formerly part of the USSR, declared independence from the Soviet
  2. Union in August 1991. For the past 400 years the territory has been ruled
  3. by both the Poles and the Russians, and it was  nearly destroyed by the
  4. German Nazis who occupied it during the Second World War.
  5.