1. WHAT DO WE TEACH ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOURS Vital Kirylenka, Nadzeya Kushner, Siarhei Lukashanets

2. Curriculum History and Social Science Courses  History of Belarus  World History  People. Society. State Years of studying  Basic secondary school (V-IX grades)  Upper secondary school (X-XI grades)  University course (1st year)

3. World History  Vikings  Sweden – Thirty years War (1618-1648)  North War (1700-1721)  Alfred Nobel Award  Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940)

4. World Contemporary History: 1918-2000 RUSSIA LITHUANIA POLAND UKRAINE LATVIA 20%69% 100%75% 25% 58% 42% 11% 29% 14% 57% Connotation positive negative neutral

5. Belarus neighbours  Latvia  Lithuania  Poland  Russia  Ukraine

6. Latvia  Polatsk duke Uladzimir and Riga foundation (1201)  Struggle between Livonian knights and Belarusian Dukes of Kukeinas and Gercike (XIII century)  Riga-Belarusian trade cooperation  Participation of Belarusian-Lithuanian State in Livonian War (1558-1582)  Belarusian people in Latvia

7. Lithuania  The formation of Great Dutchy of Lithuania, Rus and Samogitia (XIII century)  Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (February 1919-July 1920)  Transition of Vilnia to Lithuania in 1939

8. Grunvald Battle (1410)

9. Poland  Invitation of Great Duke of Lithuania Jahajla to the Polish throne (1385)  Unions between Great Dutchy and Poland (1385, 1401, 1413)  Establishing of Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569)  Polonization on Belarusian nobility and spread of Roman Catholic Church (XVI-XVIII)  Uprisings 1794, 1830, 1863  Riga Peace Treaty (1921)  Western Belarus as a part of Poland (1921-1939)

10. Rzecz Pospolita of Both Nations (1569)

11. Russia  Kiev Rus  Moscow-LIthuanian Wars (XV-XVIII)  Inclusion of Belarusian territories in Russian Empire (1772, 1793, 1795)  Uprisings (1794, 1830-31, 1863-64)  Russian Empire policy in Belarus (rusification, serfdom and its abolition in 1861, reforms of Alexander II)  Revolutions (1905, 1917), World War I  Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR  World War II

12. Russian Army moves to Lithuania (XVI century)

13. Ukraine  Kiev Rus  Blue Water Battle (1363) and liberation of Ukraine lands by the Great Dutchy from tatars  Cossacks Wars (XVII)  Ukranian and Belarusian Democratic Republics (1918)  Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in Poland (1921-1939)  Independent Ukraine and Belarus States (1991)

14. Cossacks in XVII century

15. Different Views  Latvia – no problems  Lithuania – the essence of Great Dutchy of Lithuania, Vilnia/Vilnius history  Poland – National heroes and famous people origins, the rule of Pilsudski regime  Russia – belarusian nation existance, slavic lands of Great Dutchy of Lithuania  Ukraine – Polesie region origins

16. Conclusion We have many topics to argue but we are together and happy to discuss these questions... Unity in variety...