Partition of Belgium emerged in Brussels, the capital and largest city of the country. Ethnic tensions have affected some of the city's surrounding municipalities, which are situated in Flanders, but have had a great influx of monolingual French-speakers as a result of suburbanisation. These Dutch-speaking "facility municipalities" are obliged to offer local government services in French, meaning health-care and public amenities are divided on linguistic lines, and in some municipalities the original French-speaking minority is believed to have become a majority. The main reason for Brussels being mainly French-speaking was the low social prestige of the Dutch language in Belgium during the 19th
Supreme Administration of the Northern Region Supreme Administration of the Northern Region The Supreme Administration of the Northern Region ("VUSO"; Severnaya Oblast) was a White movement, Anti-Bolshevik left-wing, and Allied government. On 2 August 1918, the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region was declared in a coup by White Russians, led by Captain , on the eve of Allied occupation of Arkhangelsk. British diplomats had traveled to Arkhangelsk in preparation of the invasion, and Major-general Frederick Poole had coordinated the coup with Chaplin. Allied warships sailed into the port from the White Sea. General Poole ran Archangelsk as Commander of British troops in Northern Russia, declaring