Postcard no. 8 received!

On 28 january I received my 8th postcard. It came from Belarus ("Wit-Rusland" in Dutch). It took 8 days to get here. Belarus was part of the former Soviet Union.
Officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Vitsebsk). Over forty percent of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.

The postcard shows a kind of falcon, that probably is native to Belarus.

BY-333464

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