Originally published at Belarus Digest. Please leave any comments there.

More than 70 thousand tourists are heading to Belarus ahead of the 2014 IIHF World Ice Hockey Championship. Many plan to take advantage of the temporary visa-free regime this May.

Though numerous wars and rebellions have resulted in the destruction of many architectural ( Read more... )

Originally published at Belarus Digest. Please leave any comments there.

As the World Hockey Championship 2014 approaches, the organising committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus announced that they plan to suspend the perplexing visa regime to facilitate tourist travel. Ticket-holders during the month-long event in May of next year ( Read more... )