Исторический опыт Литовско-Латышско-Белорусского межэтнического взаимодействия как фактор интеграционных процессов Беларуси по европейскому вектору

Abstract

Socio-cultural and national-political integration processes taking place between Belarusian, Lithuanian and Latvian ethnic communities are considered in the paper. It is shown that Belarusian, Lithuanian and Latvian ethnic commu­nities being close-related and Indo-European by origin, developing in similar natural and geographic conditions and being the parts of the same national formations, the Great Duchy of Lithuania and Gemot and then of Rzech Pospolita formed similar mental characteristics i.e. tolerance, diligence, hospitality.