I've heard a lot of Minsk and Belarus in the news, well, sadly, they are almost all about Lukashenko. This is the first time I take notice of your country's English spelling, since in our language it is translated in transliteration as "White Russia"("Be" pronounces very close to "Bai", which is "white" in Chinese).

I know that Belarus is situated in the center of Europe on the watershed of the Baltic and Black Seas. The capital is the city of Minsk. Belarus borders on Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine. A lot of Lithuanians would travel to Belarus to buy products they couldn't buy in Lithuania before their independence in 1991.