Belarus
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Occasion: 1998 Winter Olympics,1998,Nagano,Japan
Width: 48 mm
Height: 27 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.50
Printing method: Offset
Catalog number:
Michel 250
Scott 233b
Yvert 240
Location: Ice Hockey Volume V
Stamp ID = 106
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Belarus (1992-)
Belarus, then called White Russia, was divided between Poland and the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution but was reunited after WWII as the Belyorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, within the Soviet Union. In 1991, Belarus became an independent state.