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Belarus: Borders
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A payment for entering Belarus and for transit through its territory is required for all vehicles (except for non-transit passenger cars entering Belarus). The fee ranges from US$ 20 to $155. Besides you will be required to fill-in the details of your vehicle into the customs declaration and purchase a motor-car insurance (that's apart from a personal insurance). Insurance by few foreign companies are accepted. Insurance agents are present at every border crossing point and the charge ranges from ˆ 5 for 15 days to ˆ 53 for a year.
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Pastor Valery Okhrimuk, an Evangelical, leads a 100 member Baptist church in southwest Belarus near the Polish border. He says the Orthodox church which claims 80% of the population pushed for the religion law because some in the historic church were upset with the growth of the Evangelical congregations.
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The Collective Security Council (CSC) met, for the first time, on 28-29 September to discuss security challenges to the signatories of the Collective Security Treaty (CST): Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Of particular concern were Taliban forces engaged in combat with the anti-Taliban coalition about five or ten kilometers away from the Tajik-Afghan border and a large number of Afghan refugees at the border (estimated as high as 130,000 persons, though other sources indicate that there is "no massive concentration" of refugees along the border, but rather only a few small groups of civilians from nearby Afghan villages who are making no attempts to cross the border).
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Chernobyl, in the northern Ukraine, is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Belarus border. It is said that because of the winds on April 26, 1986, 70 percent of the radioactive dust from the Chernobyl nuclear mishap fell on Belarus. This fallout is still an issue in Belarus, as is . soil pollution from pesticide use.
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