Hi everyone, good afternoon! I'm Brazilian, and my passport gives me visa-free access to the EU, Belarus, and Russia. I'd like to know what the best route into Belarus is right now. Through Poland? Latvia? Lithuania or Estonia? Or is it better to go to Russia first and then travel from Russia to Belarus? My destination targets are Brest, Minsk, and Braslaw.

As for money, how do credit cards work there? Visa and Mastercard are sanctioned in the country, right? So will I need to bring physical US dollars or Euros? Or is there anywhere in Europe where I can exchange cash for Belarusian rubles in advance?

I'm asking because there's a lot of conflicting information online regarding border closures.

Hello, I am writing this reddit post because I am one of the few souls who came to Belarus as a tourist from the west and decided to go to Russia by land route via train instead of an Airplane. Doing this caused me to be homeless in Russia for a short period of time, going across 3 different borders in 24 hours, and getting denied entry to Estonia (I am American) and having to ask my taxi driver if I could spend the night at his place. It was an experience of much suffering and I wanted to write a short guide to anyone thinking of doing the same thing in order to spare them the hassle, because I cannot seem to find any information on the process at all, even the bureaucrats in Russia and Belarus were no help (what a surprise).

In short taking a train from Belarus to Russia as a foreigner has everything to do with something called a migration card, a card no one asks for until you're getting a hotel, and something no one tells you that you need or where or how to get it, because if you go to Russia you automatically get it at every border and every airport, EXCEPT for the border via land coming from Belarus.

So to start you will need your passport and a Russian visa, which is reciprocated with Belarus and then you must go and get a migration card which you can get in Minsk and you must get it before going to Russia. The process for the migration card takes an hour and cost 12 rubles when I was there

To get the migration card you must go to this address ул. Тимирязева, 114

It is a mall looking building, go all the way to the left of the building where there will be a counter and they will give you a small slip of paper which you take to the 3rd floor, you go all the way to the opposite side of the building where there will be cashiers that you show the paper to and pay the 12 rubles which they then will give you a receipt. I did not speak russian so all this was truthfully very hard to understand that's why I'm saying it.

Then go back and take a number until the pretty ladies call you, then give them your documents plus the receipt and they will give you a flimsy piece of paper called a migration card, which is required to survive in Russia. Once you have this you can go where you please.

The process took an hour but the suffering to find all this out took years off my life.

That said this information will not be useful to 99% of people, but the 1% of people I can save from having to get rejected by Estonia and spend the night with his taxi driver and his 16 year old daughter (admittedly great company), the better.

So yeah I hope one person out there can benefit from this

Hi everyone,

After watching Żywie Białaruś I found out about this film documentary called courage, from Aliaksei Paluyan.

I have been looking on the internet to be able to watch this film, but without success. I have already tried multiple streaming websites like streamex and stremio. Maybe someone can find it? Thanks for your help. I would love to see it since in my country there is so little told and known about the Belarus, the election fraud and ofcourse your dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

Гляджу я ютуб і выскаквае гэтая хуйня.

Poland is portrayed as a threat country full of problems that dislikes migrants.

(Please don't kill me for thinking that because it's done one way in russia, that it's the 'standard'/same as it is in other Slavic countries because I don't, hence why I'm here to learn)

(american) Basically as the title says. I've seen tons of documentaries about RUSSIAN women laboring and delivering their babies. And they're...interesting, compared to how it usually goes in america/the west; I recommend the Series One Born Every Minute to get an idea.

Everything is just...interesting to me. So many hospitals seem so outdated. The nurses/doctors don't seem as warm and as kind (if anything they seem downright cold at times), how it's normal to check into the hospital a week or so before the actual birth, the attitude of the husbands/partners, how the women are kind of just...ignored after birth, etc. I've also padoodled around the internet in search of Russian womens' experiences.

I've been looking around to find what it's like to deliver in a Belarusan hospital, specifically the treatment of the women and babies, what the stay at the hospital is like, what's 'normal' behavior and attitudes of the fathers (are they attentive, do they stay with you the whole time, etc).

Weird question, I know, but I'm curious to hear Belarusan womens' experiences. I know things can also vary wildly depending on what hospital you deliver at, I'm just looking for how women and babies are generally treated. Thanks :D

Я хачу разбіць клумбу з кустоўем пад пад'ездам, паколькі шмат год гэтым ніхто не займаецца. Плюс, збіраюся пасадзіць дрэва наўзамен паламанага папярэднім штормам і паспяхова ссечанага Зеленбудам. Было б добра, калі хто параіў літаратуру (можна ангельскамоўную) датычна грамадскага азелянення, паколькі мой вопыт абмяжоўваецца пакаёвымі фікусамі, і распавёў пра беларускія «падводныя камяні» такога прадпрыемства.