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October 23, 2007 | permalink |


We're looking for a city in Eastern Europe in today's Geo Quiz. We want you to name the capital of Belarus.
The country and city were part of the Soviet Union until 1991.

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Since then, the city's landscape has changed quite a bit.

But the capital doesn't altogether reject its Soviet past.

Boston Globe correspondent Tom Haines is there right now.

"I'm standing off the a very broad boulevard that runs through the center of this capital city. It is at one end today stands a Porsche dealership and near another a statute of Vladimir Lenin. It's renowned for its neo-Stalinistic architecture which is hopeful to become a UNESCO world heritage site."

So where is this wonderful Soviet-era architecture?






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