Belarusian Popular Front
The Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" (BPF, Belarusian: Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне", БНФ; Biełaruski Narodny Front "Adradžeńnie", BNF) was a social and political movement in Belarus in the late 1980s and 1990s whose goals were national revival of Belarus, its democratization and independence from the Soviet Union. Its leader was Zianon Pazniak. It was similar to the Popular Fronts of Latvia and Estonia, and the Sąjūdis movement in Lithuania.
Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" Беларускі Народны Фронт "Адраджэньне" | |
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| Abbreviation | БНФ, BPF, BNF |
| Leader | Zianon Pazniak |
| Founded | 25 June 1989 |
| Succeeded by | BPF Party Conservative Christian Party – BPF Young Front |
| Headquarters | Minsk |
| Ideology | Liberal democracy Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | white, red, white (Flag of the Belarusian Democratic Republic) |
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From 1993 on, the flag of the BPF was a variation on the flag of the Belarusian People's Republic with a Cross of Saint Euphrosyne | |
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