Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
Belarus conducts a more independent policy and it is comparatively pro-Russian.
...than Ukraine you mean? Yeah, seems like it to me too.

One thing that I noticed when I travelled in these countries was that everybody has family and friends in Russia or one of the other CIS countries. So they are able to keep themselves well informed and compare their own conditions with their relatives elsewhere. Lots of people were born in a different Soviet republic and just ended up a citizen of whatever contry they happened to be living in in 1991. Some people appear to have left in a hurry in 1991 and moved elsewhere. In Belarus, they had a big nationalistic campaign in progress to make all these people identify with Belarus, despite their bakground.