Quote: (11-21-2018 01:24 PM)scrambled Wrote:  

Probably one of those international clubs for ex-pats, like "inter-nations".

Those things are normally frequented by Milfs looking for rich guys. Shemp said he goes after 5's after I recall, so can fill his boots if that's the case

Quote: (11-20-2018 04:39 AM)BangBoy123 Wrote:  

Although the girls are a step down from Ukraine, I still liked them, taller than Ukrainian girls and more wholesome in my opinion. There are plenty Belarussian girls that visit Ukraine, Lvov in winter, and Odessa in Summer, I will certainly be on the lookout for them

There's also a ton of Belarus lizards in Vilnius since it's only 185km to Minsk and they go there to study or just party for the weekend.

The ones I met in Vilnius were all somewhat sketchy, but small sample size so there might be some gems who knows.

People,

Where do students go out on a wednesday and on a thursday? Is it safe to walk on the streets at night?

Thank you in advance stay safe

Quote: (03-04-2019 11:45 AM)goncalo999 Wrote:  

People,

Where do students go out on a wednesday and on a thursday? Is it safe to walk on the streets at night?

Thank you in advance stay safe

Im curious too.

I love how the OP states ''let me say I did not get laid during my time there. This was mainly due to a combination of several factors''

The fact of the matter is your not good looking. End of story. Listing these factors is a major COPE bruh.

Any good looking guy can get laid ANYWHERE within a week using online or real life game. Of course there are exceptions such as North Korea etc

Romesh us straight guys have a harder time than you guys sometimes. Guess we just have to "cope"

Quote: (03-28-2019 09:34 AM)Beirut Wrote:  

Romesh us straight guys have a harder time than you guys sometimes. Guess we just have to "cope"

lol nice one

Of all the places i've used Instagram to hook up with this. Minsk consistently gets the most responses from my DMs, meet ups and ultimately Lays. Go figure but perhaps this place being less developed that most than the other FSUs the girls here seem more eager.

I read somewhere that I can buy the mandatory health insurance in the airport itself for around 2€ for visa-free stays. Can someone confirm this, and if positive, does the buying have long lines?

Yes, you can buy it at the airport, right before passport control. The line is short and moves quickly.

Any recommendations for date spots? Preferrably a bar/lounge thats not divy but also not highend in that only p4p girls would go there.

Also any updated nightlife recs would be welcome

Date spot: Victory Park
Night spots: Zybitskaiya Street / Black house klub / Rich Cat Club

Quote: (04-24-2019 07:04 PM)Beirut Wrote:  

Any recommendations for date spots? Preferrably a bar/lounge thats not divy but also not highend in that only p4p girls would go there.

Also any updated nightlife recs would be welcome

Cafe Paris good but pricey, there’s a bar restaurant on top of a hotel I forget the name but it’s usually good, great for dates or pregame and always a lot of cuties running around I’ll get the name and post here. I only went to two clubs which we’re mentioned earlier black house and Rich Cat, I went to a few karaoke clubs with this girl I know and her friends they weren’t in the center but packed full of hotties apparently they really love the karaoke in minsk

Bar Dot XXI is the place good for dates and pregaming

Grand Cafe is good too. I spent a rainy afternoon there reading and drinking coffee to get out of a sudden downpour.

It has a classy vibe (they had a cute hostess at the entrance) and nice interior. Since it was empty when I was there during the day I don't know whether the night crowd would be p4p or not, but I think most lizards would be impressed.

Vasilki is a good place for local food, but although it's not divey I don't consider it high-end.

Yes I know grand cafe I think it has the green awning all wooden tables and like a huge bar in the middle? You walk in check your check your coat then walked left up the stairs? What is Divey?

Quote: (04-28-2019 06:47 PM)ElJefe1 Wrote:  

Yes I know grand cafe I think it has the green awning all wooden tables and like a huge bar in the middle? You walk in check your check your coat then walked left up the stairs? What is Divey?

I like Insomnia Bar in Old Town Minsk. It has a very long bar with a lot of walk-by traffic, ie, high chance of other patron's being around (read: good looking girls) and does not attract too many young people. Drink menu is good and the bartenders are super friendly.

Grand Cafe is overpriced for my taste and usually just see couples there, so more of a date place not for pickup.

Thanks for the tips guys. Any gym recommendation? A big pool would be nice but not mandatory. Don’t mind the budget. Googled a bunch of decent ones but all these gyms never show their free weights. Don’t wanna end up in a new age chick gym (or do I)

Looks like James Tusk is in town:

https://project-tusk.com/collections/int...montevideo

I’ll be there starting mid May if anyone is around

I have no horse in the game, but haven't things gotten way harder, way more expensive, than when the Exiled crew was there, shortly after communism's fall:

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When I was checking out of my hotel in Minsk earlier this month (March 96), one of the cleaning women approached me with an obsequious steel-toothed smile.

"You're leaving already?" she asked me.

"Yeah, I'm sorry to go," I answered.

"That's too bad," she replied. "I wanted to introduce you to one of my daughters. I brought pictures of them to show you the other day, but then I saw you come here with someone, and... Well, the oldest one is twenty-eight. Maybe... she's too old for you? She has a young boy. I also have an eighteen-year-old daughter. I can introduce you to either one. Which would you prefer?"

"They both sound nice."

She was persistent about pimping one of her daughters off on me. She wouldn't let me go. After all, I was a White God, and these days in Minsk, White Gods are few and far between. She showed me a pair of black and white neo-Soviet passport photos of her daughters: Sveta, the 28-year-old, and Anna, the 18-year-old. H'm. This was going to be a tough choice. Should I take door number one-fresh, nubile, easily-impressed; or door number two-divorced, mother... Damn, this was a real brain teaser...

So how did Minsk get this way? How did I wind up with this steel helmet and sword, wading onto shore of some wheel-less Indian settlement, way out here in Eastern Europe?

Even though Minsk is actually a clean, attractive, quiet, friendly city--a jewel by provincial Russian standards--it is almost totally devoid of foreigners. Ever since Lukashenko came to power, greedy, young, underqualified Western "entrepreneurs" saw their gold-plated lollypops snatched from their hands. So they split town, realizing that their chances of participating in the economic rape of Belarus was next to nil: Lukashenko had basically cancelled "privatization" and "foreign aid," meaning, for folks like us expats, that Belarus has nothing to offer. By eschewing a Western-rape-friendly policy, Belarus has also earned a bad rap from the Western press.

There's a lot of good going on in Belarus that never gets reported. For example, did you know that Belarus posted a 2.6 percent gain in GDP last year, and a massive 11 percent gain in the first half of this year -all achieved in total defiance of World Bank and IMF advice? Of course not -reporting that kind of good news about Belarus, or the fact that Lukashenko's approval rating among the population would make any world leader drool with envy, might confuse our sense of good and bad, right and wrong. So he's a "tyrant", and Belarus is an "economic basket case."

Consider this recent editorial, "Russia and Its Tyrant Neighbor," from that ultimate paper of record, the New York Times: "Belarus's economy, which looks the same as it did 10 years ago, is so feeble that it makes Russia's economy look robust." Well, there's some truth to this: ten years ago, the economies of both countries were about double the size of what they are today-meaning if Belarus's economy looks like it did ten years ago (and indeed it is getting there faster than its "booming" neighbor Russia), it is the envy of nearly all of the FSU. Belarus doesn't have wage arrears problems and miners' wives laying down on railroad tracks like Russia. In fact, Russia only paid off its arrears by changing the terms of its gas supply agreements, squeezing Belarus for a huge sum of cash (at the advice of anti-Belorussian Western advisors). Even so, Belarus continues to grow.

If Lukashenko could run in a free and fair Russian election, he could possibly win--which means Chubais' friends would lose everything. That's why the "Russian liberals" -the English- speaking thieves, one of whom owns ORT, the other who owns NTV-despise him. For them to support Lukashenko would be as mad as Al Capone supporting J. Edgar Hoover. (On a minor point, the opposition press IS alive in Belarus. The Minsk News, the only English-language newspaper in Belarus, is rabidly anti-Lukashenko -in comparison, the Moscow Times reads as though Chubais himself edits it. Imya, the popular Minsk weekly, not only savages Lukashenko with words, but always prints a brutal, hilarious eXile-esque full page picture of the president in highly unflattering poses.)

We only know the bad because Lukashenko doesn't play our game, and because he doesn't suck up to the most gullible PR conduit in the world--the Western press. Compared to last year's press darling, Alexander Lebed, Lukashenko is a puppy. Lebed's people once boasted that intellectuals--the press, that is--are the easiest people to snow over with a few good soundbites. He also boasted that killing 30,000 people was a reasonable figure to bring order to Russia. And yet the press loved him. Lukashenko, on the other hand, tosses a few people in jail, and the way it's reported in the press, you'd think that the gas chambers were running at 110 percent. Even a longtime Minsk-based EBRD employee, after bemoaning Lukashenko's economic policies, admitted to me that the only difference between Belarus and Ukraine -- which is the world's third largest recipient of Western aid -- is purely rhetorical. "Ukraine at least talks the talk," he quipped, "but neither of them walk the walk [of market reforms]."

Grim portrayals mean people are loathe to even visit, much less invest, in Belarus. Indeed, almost everyone asked me, before I left for Minsk, if I wasn't worried about getting arrested. Not at all--if anything, I'd happily offer my services as a kind of Goebbels to the Lukashenko regime, should they ever need a counter-propagandist. The way I see it, thanks to Lukashenko's badboy rhetoric, the cleaning woman offered me her two daughters. So he's all right by me. And this is the point I want to get across here. If a poll were held today, I would be one of the 55 percent of Belorussians who recently gave their leader a thumbs-up of approval, and not one of the nine percent of Russians that gave Yeltsin--the hero of the West--a similar approval. Why? Because frankly, I like being a White God. It feels good walking down the street and having people throw themselves at your feet. I had no fewer than three marriage proposals, including one from a "virgin". It was hilarious and gratifying and I never expect to experience that again in Europe, barring some kind of war.

Men dream of being White Gods because, more than anything, it is sexually appealing. For women, it's a bit different. Women generally aren't turned on by desperate male losers the way men get excited by desperate girls. But this doesn't mean that the White God Factor doesn't appeal to women as well--only for them, it's usually a sentimental thing. Women too like being in a position of strength- in this case, to "help the needy."

When I was in Vang Vieng, Laos, this one German Greens type complained to me that the White God Factor was already receding. "It's not so good in Laos anymore," she said with a hint of frustration. "The people aren't as poor as they used to be. Four or five years ago it was better." She didn't even realize how evil that was--wishing that the locals were more poor, only in order to satisfy her sentimental desire to be "needed" and "helpful." Whatever -the point is, it's almost ALWAYS good for us when others suffer and we don't.

So thank you Mr. Lukashenko for saying the wrong things in the wrong way to the wrong people. And a big thank you to you, every other Western news media/organization/businessmen, for spreading cheap Cold War lies about an alleged tyrant and his allegedly basket-case nation. And oh yes, to you as well, all the aggrieved bankers, IFIs (international finance institutions) and human rights activists for helping to scare all the White People away from Belarus. All of you helped make my five days in Minsk among the most memorable of my life.

IMHO, this is one of the best pieces about the situation on the ground in Eastern Europe, of course I have no idea if it still holds true in Belarus to this day, keeping in mind the Exiled crew was there after Belarus broke apart from russia. He hits the nail on the head about demonizing eastern block countries (among others) for failing to follow the directions of the international banking community. To this day, Belarus is still described as a dictatorship, repressive, "soviet-like", etc. But, counterintutively, many people that live there are perfectly happy with their current situation.

I happened across a video the other day of a bald, backpacker type, British, middle aged... This is the result of his date with a Belarussian women. His channel is very interesting as well... Anyway, I could practically smell the sex in the air:

^ He would eventually show up in this thread...

Quote: (05-03-2019 11:43 AM)Rocha Wrote:  

^ He would eventually show up in this thread...

Rocha does he have some sort of reputation or notoriety?

On my youtube account, I watch a lot of niche travel videos (maybe I watched a few videos about the political situation in belarus), and he popped up. I said cool, I like these types that travel to off-the map destinations on shoestring budgets.

Well, it turns out this guy speaks Russian and wrote a book about his travels (specific to belarus i believe, although I haven't bought it). I imagine the foreigner community in Belarus is small, so maybe you've heard of him.

I'm stunned by the balls on this guy, going to random villages and just conversating with villagers.

This video is also damn good, and has sort of a gonzo quality to it. To summarize, he shows up in random city in Belarus, meets a guy on street, gets invited to drink, goes to store to buy vodka, then they go to the guy's apartment to drink vodka. (As many in the comments note the guy is an obvious alcoholic looking for a fix). One of the guys is a violin teacher (who also happens to be a chechen soldier I think), the other man it turns out, knows english, and his friend starts freaking out because if you know english as the saying goes, you must be an infiltrator. It is a surreal and hilarious episode that illustrates the paranoia that people in the eastern block have towards anglo influence. To continue, one of the men takes the brit to task for world war ii of all things, "you didn't help us, fuck churchill." Which goes to show many are ill-informed on history, even as this man chides the brit for "not knowing history." The Chechen continues to play the violin as they drink. In true gonzo fashion the Brit repeatedly keeps breaking the fourth wall and translates the action and the anger happening in Russian. In my opinion, much better than reality TV:

^He a well regarded former member of this forum, some of his writings were epic but are no longer on the forum.

I will leave it at that.

Quote: (05-03-2019 03:20 PM)rudebwoy Wrote:  

^He a well regarded former member of this forum, some of his writings were epic but are no longer on the forum.

I will leave it at that.

Mind blown.

I have read some of English Teacher X's stuff. And seeing as this guy has been in Russia now the gears in my mind are turning...

Quote: (05-03-2019 03:02 PM)AOCs Missing Boyfriend Wrote:  

Quote: (05-03-2019 11:43 AM)Rocha Wrote:  

^ He would eventually show up in this thread...

Rocha does he have some sort of reputation or notoriety?

On my youtube account, I watch a lot of niche travel videos (maybe I watched a few videos about the political situation in belarus), and he popped up. I said cool, I like these types that travel to off-the map destinations on shoestring budgets.

Well, it turns out this guy speaks Russian and wrote a book about his travels (specific to belarus i believe, although I haven't bought it). I imagine the foreigner community in Belarus is small, so maybe you've heard of him.

I'm stunned by the balls on this guy, going to random villages and just conversating with villagers.

This video is also damn good, and has sort of a gonzo quality to it. To summarize, he shows up in random city in Belarus, meets a guy on street, gets invited to drink, goes to store to buy vodka, then they go to the guy's apartment to drink vodka. (As many in the comments note the guy is an obvious alcoholic looking for a fix). One of the guys is a violin teacher (who also happens to be a chechen soldier I think), the other man it turns out, knows english, and his friend starts freaking out because if you know english as the saying goes, you must be an infiltrator. It is a surreal and hilarious episode that illustrates the paranoia that people in the eastern block have towards anglo influence. To continue, one of the men takes the brit to task for world war ii of all things, "you didn't help us, fuck churchill." Which goes to show many are ill-informed on history, even as this man chides the brit for "not knowing history." The Chechen continues to play the violin as they drink. In true gonzo fashion the Brit repeatedly keeps breaking the fourth wall and translates the action and the anger happening in Russian. In my opinion, much better than reality TV:

That violinist is not a Chechen. From my understanding he was living in Grozny when the war broke. Chechens are normally practicing muslims, so would not be drinking vodka like this.