Visa-free regime to Belarus can be expanded next year

         In the end of this year the Belarusian government will analyze the effects of the five days visa-free regime for the citizens of 80 states. It was implemented last February. There are aspirations to expand the visa-free visit till 10 or 30 days. Current visa-free regime applies only to the visitors who arrive to the Minsk International Airport. In the future plans there might be an option of land border crossing. Most probably next year there will be possible to visit Belarus without visa for 10 days. For the citizens of China it could be expanded up to 30 days.

Belarus: homo sovieticus mindset still wins

              While Belarus tries its best to improve its cooperation with West - what is a very rational step, subconsciously it is still on the other side of iron curtain. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Vladimir Makei, stated that Belarus would like to have good neighbourhood relations with its partners from West like the EU and other geopolitical enemies like US and China. The Minister probably meant “players” but the homo sovieticus mindset did not want to give up so easily. In the psychoanalysis it is called a Freudian slip, but how is it called in the politics?