Side by side
Belarus and Ukraine compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 43
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- 9
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- 2
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 26 Apr 1986
The Chernobyl disaster
The reactor explosion at Chernobyl in Ukraine sent about 70 percent of its radioactive fallout onto Belarus, contaminating nearly a quarter of the country's territory and affecting some 2.2 million people.
Catastrophe · from the Belarus chronicle · Chernobyl, Independence and the Lukashenka Era · Fallout from Chernobyl disaster still a 'very important challenge' for Belarus, Belarus
- 8 Dec 1991
Belavezha Accords dissolve the USSR
In the Belavezha forest in Belarus, part of the UNESCO-listed Belovezhskaya Pushcha, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, including Stanislau Shushkevich, signed accords declaring that the USSR had ceased to exist and founding the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Politics & Power · from the Belarus chronicle · Chernobyl, Independence and the Lukashenka Era · Belavezha Agreement (1991), Bialowieza Forest (Belovezhskaya Pushcha), Belarus: The emergence of the Belorussian S.S.R.