We are Belarus!

At the mercy of a Belarusian hipster

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September 4th 2010
Oh, Belarus. Are you as difficult and strange as you seem, or am I sabotaging myself with my own paranoia? The first noteworthy thing I learn about Belarus is that more people speak English here than in Kaliningrad. As in, I met two. The uniformed дзяўчына (girl; she was quite young) at passport control cheerfully helps me fill out my migration card, and I'm admitted into Belarus with ... read more

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After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a ... ... read more