{"id":38764,"date":"2022-05-30T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38764"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:08:24","slug":"norway-has-changed-the-official-name-of-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=38764","title":{"rendered":"Norway has changed the official name of Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 30 , May , 2022 | World News.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norway changes the official name of Belarus.\u00a0From now on, in Norwegian, it will be written as &#8220;Belarus&#8221; (Belarus) instead of &#8220;Hviterussland&#8221; (literally &#8211; &#8220;White Russia&#8221;) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We believe it is right to change the use of names in solidarity with the Belarusian democratic movement,&#8221; said Prime Minister Jonas Gar Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The name change was approved on the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus.&nbsp;Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Heutfeldt personally called Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the leader of the Belarusian opposition, and announced the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She was happy and thanked for the decision,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Norwegian Foreign Ministry notes that the decision was made following Sweden and Denmark, which changed the name of Belarus in 2019 and 2021, respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tikhanovskaya said dictator Lukashenko was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1972164-lider-biloruskoyi-opozitsiyi-lukashenko-vinen-u-zlochinakh-tak-samo-yak-i-putin\">guilty of crimes<\/a>\u00a0in Ukraine, as was Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 30 , May , 2022 | World News.\u00a0 Norway changes the official name of Belarus.\u00a0From now on, in Norwegian, it will be written as &#8220;Belarus&#8221; (Belarus) instead of &#8220;Hviterussland&#8221; (literally &#8211; &#8220;White Russia&#8221;) . Quote &#8220;We believe it is right to change the use of names in solidarity with the Belarusian democratic movement,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[1305,3185,2540,813,996,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-38764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-belarus","tag-norway","tag-official","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38775,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38764\/revisions\/38775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}