For 10 points, name this former Soviet Republic with capital at Minsk.
This country's first post-Communist leader trained as a nuclear physicist and hosted the meeting that formed the Commonwealth of Independent States. That leader, Stanislav Shushkevich, lost power when the no confidence vote he led against Vyacheslav Kebich failed. Dissidents in this nation during World War II were buried in a mass grave at Kurapaty. A candidate in its 2006 presidential election, (*) Alyaksandr Milinkevich, unsuccessfully tried to emulate its southern neighbor's Orange Revolution. This "last dictatorship in Europe" is currently ruled by Alexander Lukashenko. For 10 points, name this former Soviet Republic with capital at Minsk.
This country's first post-Communist leader trained as a nuclear physicist and hosted the meeting that formed the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Republic of Belarus