Привет! Прывітанне! So did you know the Belarus is the least visited country in
Europe and a question I get all the time is is it safe to visit
Belarus so in today's Tip Thursday that's the question I'm going to be answering
I'm Conor Clyne this is the tsar experience let's drop another video
So right now I am in a very calm tranquil park in the center of Gomel and
that is a great metaphor for the crime rate here in Belarus because Belarus
regularly ranks within the top 10 countries for the lowest crime in the world
right so if you were thinking that Belarus is dangerous because of crime
then clearly it's the is the opposite basically this is one of the safest
countries in the world if you look at the crime statistics so why is that so
well first of all Belarus has a very strong tradition on rule of law so they
don't really tolerate crimes being committed and someone not being caught for
it people are taught to respect the rules there are heavy fines for breaking
those rules and there's actually a lot of police as well I remember I was
in Minsk with a client and he went to the gym and there something was
stolen apparently from one of the girls' lockers and they sent seven police
officers to investigate it so you can imagine in Western Europe if you know I
don't know what was stolen it was a phone maybe it was some other personal item from a
locker in a gym I think the mostly whatever since maybe two police officers
in Belarus it's seven right so you can see the difference about how seriously
crime is tackled and how seriously it's taken in general I've already spoken
I even made a video about when my phone got lost here in Belarus I'll link it up
in a card above and down below in the description if you want to hear more
about it but basically my phone went missing I've flown out of the country
and when I came back the Belarusians had found it the police they took it the
extremely serious and they put a police officer on the case he wanted to know too
about everybody I'd spoken to where I'd been all morning before I flew out and
see who's gonna track it down for me so there you go that doesn't happen in very
many countries in the world so you see that in terms of petty crime and serious
violent crime Belarus really ranks as one of the lowest
countries in the world so in my experience in Europe this is definitely ranking in
the top three you safest countries that I've been to on my travels and I've been to
all 50 countries in Europe so take it from me
on the crime level Belarus is extremely safe
So the second point is actually going to be a corollary of this first point about the crime rate being extremely
low in Belarus and that is the risk of scams / you know having your drink
spiked which is obviously part of the scam and you know I've talked a lot in
my videos about Ukraine and how these risks are extremely high there and in
fact the US government has actually had a warning from a few years ago about this
city Gomel about romance scams and you know you being drugged or being
assaulted as a result of women that you meet online now of course these scams
do exist to a certain extent in Belarus like I outlined a lot about them in my
videos from Ukraine so they can run the gauntlet from just a girl wasting your
time and wanting a free meal all the way up to you know being in a club with two big
burly bouncers demanding that you pay a bill of over a thousand euros when
obviously what you ordered what the girls actually ordered who had
encouraged you to go there it's not remotely that price level at all now
I've never heard of that extreme level in Belarus
personally now there are a few scams I've heard from friends and clients
attempts at very minor stuff like I said having your time wasted in a restaurant up to maybe up to some girl
asking you to buy her something on a first date so that's as far as I've seen it go here in
Belarus and my experience my friends' experience and my clients' experience
here is that it's just a tiny fraction of a safety concern compared to Ukraine
maybe you could ... or Russia so overall as I said the Belarusian police take
these things extremely seriously so something like having your drink
spiked, being unconscious and being robbed I cannot imagine that the Belarusian authorities
will not take this extremely seriously and the police will hunt down the
perpetrators and romance scams are probably not so common in Western Europe and North
America not a big issue at least they are probably just slightly more here
then you're going to be used to maybe you should be used in your home country
but definitely nothing like the danger level that comes with you know such
endeavors in neighboring Ukraine and Russia
So point three on whether it's safe to visit Belarus is the issue of terrorism
now we should be able to see just behind me there a Soviet tank that obviously
liberated this city in Belarus from Nazi terror of the 1940s but you're probably
more concerned about a different type of terrorism that is of course generally
Islamic terrorism that afflicts Western Europe in particular now Belarus has
actually had a terrorist attack in the last decade it was in 2011 on the
Minsk metro but basically the country is not afflicted by terrorism per say it
has not had a revolution like in Ukraine so you don't have to worry about
terror attacks on the Metro public transport that hasn't happened once in
the last 10 years that was in 2011 and the perpetrators were apparently caught
well two people were executed for their involvement in those attacks so
basically if you compare that to say obviously going to London or Madrid or
Paris or basically any big Berlin any big European city or a city like Nice
that attracts a lot of tourists who do always have that risk unfortunately in
the last few years that particularly terrorist acts with will target visitors
to the city as well as locals so that's something you do not have to worry about
here in Belarus so that is something that obviously is dramatically different
in terms of safety level or danger level compared to other cities in Europe
further to the west is the risk of terrorism it's pretty minimal here so
you can rest easy taking public transport on the metro and going
to all the cultural sites here in Belarus.
The next safety concern that you probably heard about Belarus is radiation now this is not some sort of
nuclear holocaust zombie parallel universe in Eastern Europe there are no
mutants here with you know animals with two heads and six limbs and whatnot
right that doesn't exist in Belarus or actually anywhere in any of the region
also in Ukraine where the nuclear accident took place which is just across the
border from more or less here I'm in Gomel and unfortunately fortunately for
Gomel and southern Belarus the majority of the fallout from the Chernobyl
nuclear accident actually fell over here and not in Ukraine now that said it
didn't actually fall really on the city of Gomel and you're probably gonna go to
Minsk you know reality which is of course a few hundred kilometers from here so
this wasn't where you're going to be traveling to was not actually the center
where the radiation fell there is a exclusion zone also in southern Belarus
similar to what you're gonna see if you go to Chernobyl in Ukraine to see
Pripyat the city the model Soviet city that was abandoned there you can go
check out my video boom up above on the card and down below in the description gonna
link that so radiation where does this concern come from ugh obviously you're
probably watching this series about Chernobyl on TV you know on TV but
actually the British media in particular have a lot of articles talking about how
dangerous the dairy produce is from Belarus how it's all radiated and I
would take all those stories with a pinch of salt because Belarus actually
exports its dairy to a lot of countries around obviously and which
already to Russia but also into the European Union and I'm pretty sure that
if it was super radiated they wouldn't be able to get it any sort of
significant amount of time because obviously the EU's
health standards on agriculture pretty high so I would take all that kind of
media sensationalism with a pinch of salt along with a pinch of a lot of other
things and I would not be worried about that remember that the Chernobyl
accident took place in the in 1986 and whilst it did affect the local
population here terribly you know just in the aftermath
I even remember growing up in Ireland that we had associations that would help
children from Chernobyl basically was actually children from here in southern
Belarus that was 33 years ago when I'm shooting this video and whilst there was
a spike in cancer related deaths in the aftermath to the accident in the
region that is not the case today I wasn't able to get government
statistics on the actual radiation levels but you go look at my video from
Chernobyl where the actual plant is based on has now become a big tourist
attraction you're gonna see that actually the radiation levels in nearly
all of it are pretty low and that's actually where the accident took place
never mind a city that's a little bit away like here in Gomel and a lot ...
considerably away where you're gonna travel to most likelihood in Minsk
whilst it did obviously have a big impact exactly at the time and in the years
afterwards today 33 years later it's like a tourist attraction people who live there
there are soldiers living basically two weeks on 2 week off at the power plant in
Chernobyl and obviously local people here live all year round and they don't
die in their droves from being radiated there's no one glowing green if you come
here to Belarus there's no you know people with six limbs walking around
regularly with their cousin was two heads that kind of stuff so forget all of
those kind of scare stories and sensationalism I personally would not be
worried about undue radiation levels if you're coming here just for a visit
it's not gonna make any difference whatsoever so radiation and Belarus just sensationalism
So the final point I'd like to address in this video is the perception that
Belarus is like a European North Korea that is basically a state in which if
you criticize the government in private you have thought police that come along and they
take you away to torture you and lock you up whether you happen to be Belarusian
or a foreigner now that is absolutely not the case this is not North Korea
I can understand North Korea obviously it's a very different regime to what you have here
in Belarus Belarus is known as the last dictatorship in Europe probably a misnomer
considering their neighbors further to the east in the way that their
government has evolved over the last while but basically Belarusians
express their support or their antipathy to the current regime openly
not worried about being picked up by the KGB because they had said to some
foreigner I don't like the current government and you know it's kind of
split in terms of opinions what people say to me so definitely they have
in private freedom of expression obviously if you
organize a protest here you come here and organize a protest that is not authorized
then you're gonna have problems but you have problems everywhere in Europe if you
organize a protest basically without permission so I don't think that's
dramatically different and remember that I openly film here in Belarus it's not
like I have a secret camera I mean I saw some British documentary makers maybe
from a few years who came here and secret cameras
they weren't allowed film they claimed and
I have this big camera here this 80d on a tripod I am on Sovietskaya which is
the main street here in Belarus' second city Gomel and I have absolutely
no fear about filming here and no one is going to hassle the police are not going to come up
and arrest me and ask me if I have permission to do that I would say that in terms of actual
filming it's more free here than in Italy in Italy you know there's some
Mussolini era laws from the 1920s and 30s that actually prohibit filming or taking
photos of historical monuments which is basically means that every time you
take a photo in a ... tourist photo in Italy it's actually technically illegal but they only really enforce it if
you take out a camera and start to film so I have actually had more issues
filming in Italy than I have in Belarus so don't be concerned about coming
here in terms that you should be worried that you're going to be thrown in a
gulag or something like that it's all complete BS that doesn't happen to visitors to Belarus
So in conclusion I would rate Belarus very safe to visit in comparison to
other countries in Europe I visited all 50 of them and this is definitely one of the
safest and Belarusians are just so welcoming to all visitors in my
experience my friends experience and my clients experience regardless of like
nationality skin color ethnicity sexual orientation if you've heard any rumors
like that in our experience in my experience absolute BS don't be scared
to come to Belarus so you're at the end of another video with me Conor Clyne
the tsar experience and I have a question for you what are you planning to
do next weekend because you could be here with with me in Minsk in Belarus
I'm actually about to leave Gomel tomorrow and go and meet some clients up in Minsk
the capital and if you've been watching this video and obviously a lot of my
other videos you may be wondering how can I Conor live as the tsar experience and
that is something you have to take the first step on and that is to write me at
ConorClyne@tsarexperience.com by email or
reach out to me on Instagram my handle there is @tsarexperience and then what's
gonna happen is I'm gonna send you a questionnaire you can answer those
questions if based on the answers I think that we're a good fit to work
together where you are gonna jump on a short strategy call together and if that
goes well could be you in Belarus next weekend
with me living the tsar experience now the tsar experience is not for
everybody and I've been saying that pretty much the last month or two in my videos
because I realize with the more and more viewers that I speak to reach out to me
exactly the kind of person that it's for and exactly the kind of person is
definitely not for so if you are someone who is like let's face it in their 50s or
60s bald fat doesn't take care of themselves
cannot get women in your hometown and you think that you were gonna come to
Eastern Europe and there's gonna be a bevy of hot twenty-year-old Instagram
models waiting for you on the tarmac you are delusional and that is not the tsar
experience you're actually gonna have to work I can provide of course the
environment and the coaching and the entire experience of coming here but
you're still gonna have to do the work that is a fantasy that many unscrupulous
dating agencies marriage agencies dating sites whatever matchmaking services will
entertain you and they will relieve you of your hard earned cash to entertain
that fantasy believe me there are a couple of genuine matchmaking
services that are probably a better fit for you if you want to be realistic and
I'll link those below in the description some of the videos that I did with
those so if that is what you're coming to Ukraine for or Belarus then just there's
no point in writing me unless you want me to vet some of your correspondence I
have helped some of those people who have reached out to me in that way and
save them a lot of money and stopped them from being scammed so that is something that
who could reach out to me by email but you will not be living the tsar
experience here with me in Eastern Europe equally if you are interested in
coming to Eastern Europe and just basically banging a load of girls like
not interested in quality only interested in quantity so basically
anything above a whale you are interested in sleeping with then please
do not write me there are other to be honest charlatans a lot of them in my
opinion pick up artists on the internet you can find them on YouTube and they
are probably a better fit for you if they actually happen to
give you a good experience when you show up and they're not completely
faking their videos with the editing but that's not the tsar experience
like it's not it's about quality over quantity I only want to help clients
who are interested in meeting beautiful women intelligent women just women of higher
value than just coming here and trying to get a lot of notches under your belt
fair play to you if you want to do that it's a free world but it won't be with me so
if you're not interested in quality then again don't write me there are other people
on the internet who will relieve you equally so if your hard earned cash or
your money and maybe maybe they'll be able to help you with that I'm not entirely sure
some of them some of them I'm sure are pretty honest but a lot of that industry
is complete charlatans haven't dealt with some of the individuals involved
but go check them out да пабачэння! До свидания! See you in the next video!