Belarus students attending schools in Belarusian in Belarus. Top - urban schools Bottom - rural schools
Belarus students attending schools in Belarusian in Belarus. Top - urban schools Bottom - rural schools
“A short period of Belarusian national revival in the early 1990s saw a rise in the numbers of Belarusian speakers. However, in 1994 the newly elected president Alexander Lukashenko slowly reversed this trend. Most residents of Minsk now use Russian exclusively in their everyday lives at home and at work, although Belarusian is understood as well. Substantial numbers of recent migrants from the rural areas use Trasyanka, a Russo-Belarusian mixed language in their everyday lives”–Girkoplesa