CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

European country, European nation - countries occupying the European continent

capital of Belarus, Minsk - the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Gomel, Homel, Homyel - industrial city of Belarus southeast of Minsk

Pinsk - a city of southwestern Belarus

Dnieper, Dnieper River - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Belorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian - a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia