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Belarusian IT

When I ask people "What do you know about Belarus?" many know nearly nothing. Some people have heard that Belarus is a dictatorship, and imagine that it looks like a decaying socialist country. Most people, however, don't know anything about Belarus, while other even can't show Belarus on a map. The most funny thing in that issue of Belarus being a mostly unknown country is that a lot of people actually use products made by Belarusians. I don't mean Minsk motorcycles that are still popular in Vietnam, or Belarusian-made Belarus tractors and world's largest BelAZ dump trucks which are even depicted on other states' currencies. Of course, I don't undermine the significance of these industrial products, but there is another sphere in which Belarus has gained huge but underestimated prominence. This sphere is IT technologies. IT industry in Belarus has its roots in Soviet cybernetics - a sphere which was quite appreciated due to its significance fo