In Bulgaria they do, but it's in the EU, like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - so young people travel, study, work abroad, then they go back, they mingle, etc. Most young people do speak some English, a lot of them fluent. But in Belarus it's different - these guys there live under Lukashenko, the last communist dictator in Europe, it's hard for them to travel, they need visas for everywhere in the EU, and most of the girls I've met hardly speak any English. Even those that I've met in the US on summer work-travel programs spoke very poorly (even though it's a requirement to speak English to go on such a program - but for a job cleaning hotel rooms or flipping burgers I guess the employers don't really require it).
I do speak Russian, however, and all Belarussians speak that.
I do speak Russian, however, and all Belarussians speak that.