Belarusian Republican Scout Association

The National Scout Association of Belarus (, - formerly , BNSA) is one of several nationwide Scouting associations in Belarus. It is the body recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1998 to 2004 and again from September 5, 2010.
Belarus Scouting history.
The first Scout groups were established in Belarus in 1909 while it was part of the Russian Empire, and disbanded by the Soviets in 1922.
Belarusian Scouting was reborn and reorganized in 1989. The National Organization of Russian Scouts (NORS), based in Australia, is assisting the rebirth of Scouting in Belarus. Belarusian Scouts have regular contacts and exchanges with members of Scouts et Guides de France and the CIS Scout associations. joined the World Organization of the Scout Movement effective March 13, 1998 as the Scout association representing Belarus.
Belarusian Republican Scout Association.
World Scouting News, March, 1998, reported "The Belarusian National Scout Association includes more than 7,500 members, both boys and girls, in three branches ranging from 8 to 17 years of age. They are spread all over the country but the majority of members come from the major cities."
World Scouting News further reported "The regularly invites underprivileged children, some of them coming from the Chernobyl contaminated areas, to some of their national summer camps."
The Scouts et Guides de France are working with Scouting in Belarus. Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique/Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België has provided support in the region of the city of Homyel.
The coeducational BNSA had 3,408 members as of 2004. WOSM membership was terminated on March 31, 2004 by the World Scout Committee. WOSM now lists the country as a "potential member".
The BNSA was provisionally suspended for "Non-adherence to the Constitution of the Organization and nonfunctioning as a democratic National Scout Movement" in 2002, after "Complaints (...) received from unrecognised groups within the country about the conduct of the recognised NSO", which led to a report by WOSM's Chairman of the Constitutions Committee, demanding a legitimate general assembly and an independent auditing of its accounts.
There was also an earlier provisional suspension for non-payment of membership fees.
The Scout Motto is "Bud' Gotov", "Be Prepared" in Russian, as BNSA does not use the Belarusian language, Russian is the sole official language. The name of the organisation in Belarusian is (). The Russian noun for a single Scout is .
The membership badge of the incorporates the Patriarchal cross of Eastern European iconography.