Belarussian Cultural Night

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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, July 23rd 2016

Famous Belarussianshighlited – the newest

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Culture

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Scarlett Johansson

Have Belarussian Roots

Harrison Ford Gwyneth Kate Paltrow Michael & Kirk Douglas

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Svetlána Alexiévich2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Alexander Rybak2009 Eurovision Song Contest Winner

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Maks KorzhFamous hip hop singer, gathered

about 6 000 people on his solo concert

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Alexey HarDrum

t.A.T.u. first sound producer, have sold more than

500.000 copies of `All The Things She Said` single all over the world

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Lyapis Trubetskoy The most popular Belarussian

Rock Band for 25 years

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SeryogaThe first rap artist in former USSR to sold

more than 1 000 000 copies of single

* can be briefly heard in the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon during a scene in which the protagonists accompany Russian cosmonauts in a Russian bar

Famous Belarussianshighlited – the newest

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Sports

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Dárya DómrachevaShe won three gold medals in the

pursuit, individual, and mass start at the 2014 Winter Olympics

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Alexey IgnashovHe was never knockouted and was 7 times Champion of the world in heavyweight Kickboxing

* Known as The Red Scorpion

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Victória Azárenka She is a former world No. 1 in tennis and is currently world No. 6

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Andrei Arlovski Belarusian mixed martial artist, actor and former UFC Heavyweight Champion, #7 in the official rankings

* Known as The Pit Bull

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Business

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Viktor Kisli Project name: World of Tanks Wargaming.netNear 100 000 000 players

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Igor Magazinnik Project name: Viber

www.viber.com More than 300 million

registered users

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Kirill KudinProject name: WiFi Mapwww.wifimap.ioover 50 000 000 downloads

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Yury MelnichekProject name: Maps.me www.Maps.me acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com Now more than 50 000 000 downloads

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Sergey Gonchar, Evgen Nevgen

Project name: MSQRD acquired by Facebook