title: The Language Situation of Belarus after the Russian annexation of Crimea
abstract: The Republic of Belarus is the only post-Soviet country that has chosen Russian as its state language even after independence in 1991. In addition, since the inauguration of President Lukashenka in 1994, it was the most Russianized country to promote national integration with the Russian Federation. As a result, the Belarusians did not seek their own ethnic identity, and the Russia acknowledged that Belarusian language is a dialect of Russian. However, with Putin s emergence, the annexation of C