'Belarus officially the Republic of Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast Ukraine to the south Poland to the west and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest Grodno (Hrodna) Gomel (Homiel) Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Vitsebsk).

Alternate Name
Chort
Chortaja borzaja
Hort
Hrt