As a result of the Chernobyl radioactive disaster, 23% of Belarussian territories were contaminated, affecting  more than 2 million people out of 10 million residents of the region. People can not ever live in the areas marked with red and orange.

Since 1978, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Control prohibited import of famous Belarusian vodka "Zubrovka", because it contained fragrant grass, which was infused at the rate of 2 pounds per ton of vodka. The grass contains poisonous element - coumarin. The grass grows only in Bialowieza Forest and is food for bisons, that's why vodka was called "Zubrovka" (belar. "zubr" - engl. "bizon"). Scented coumarin glycoside gives tincture characteristic aroma and pungent taste, promotes appetite and improves digestion. However, this kind of vodka is not a popular product in Belarus.

By the number of treasures detected each year Belarus traditionally is ahead of all Europe. As they say, a treasure is a memory about those who lived well, but ended badly. This is to ensure that there was a difficult to calculate number of large and small wars in the area. So, there are many reasons to believe that the treasures sleeping in the Belarusian land would not be called otherwise than legendary. I include the notorious  Napoleon's "Moscow trophies" drowned somewhere in Berezina river and the 12 missing gold apostles of Radziwill family. Figures of the Apostles, casted in full height with gold and silver, are described in the notes of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire, Adam Czartoryski (1770-1861): "The rich castle in Nesvizh. There's 5 or 10 million ducats worth of ornamentation. Precious collections of weapons, books, diamonds. But there is nothing more expensive than a collection of the 12 apostles, five of them are of pure gold and studded with precious stones. "

The courtyard of the castle is also shown in one hundred thousandth Belorussian bills.

"Dazhinki" is an annual harvest festival. To be precise, it is the reason for the entire village to celebrate the successful completion, the battle for the harvest. President Lukashenko made the traditional autumn holiday a state level event, where the results are being summarized, the winners of the competition are being honored and the lazy ones are being blamed. Each year, a new district center is being assigned by the government. So, the local government leads its town to a perfect order repairing roads, completes housing, painting, whitening, sweeping, and shakes with fear. Very useful initiative, in my opinion. My town was a festival center right before I immigrated to Canada. I saw a lot of positive changes.

Red Church is also one of the Minsk attractions (aka Church of St. Simeon and Helen, 1906-1910 years of construction) in the main square of the country. It was almost torn down after the war, because someone considered it as building that did not fit into the House of Parliament complex (Red Church is located next to it). By the way, the complex was built by Langbard architect in 1935.