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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Belarus is the closest and is in many ways a relic,  but it is not safe to go there. Maybe Serbia. [/quote]

Why is it not safe? I mean sure don’t bring weed or loiter near classified factories or befriend KGB officers and ask them for your loans back. And these are Russia cases I am referring to as I don’t know any from Belarus.  But otherwise nothing will happen to you in either country [/quote]

Nonsense. You don’t have to be a spy for them to call you one. You could become a chip in their game.[/quote]

Don’t get me wrong, I am not persuading you to travel there :) I am simply saying that I don’t know a single case of a foreigner arrested for just being a foreigner. Heck, even in N Korea you have to actually steal a poster to be detained. 
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US embassy there closed last year because of the Russian war in Ukraine,    says don’t go due to other risks. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/belarus-travel-advisory.html

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I still remember all the scary alerts about countries perceived as high covid risk, so what?
The embassy drastically cut its services because Russians banned their citizens from working there so they could not hire enough people to process the visas. I am not sure if it’s completely closed now, but even if it is - I know many foreigners with ties to the country or as organized tourists still travel there. 
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