‘Belarusians Will Not Spare Money For Ticket To The Hague’
6- 4.08.2023, 10:10
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Belarusians were surprised by the “achievement” of the Ministry of Transport.
Reader Dzmitry wrote to the editors of the website Charter97.org:
“We read the other day the news about the “big achievement” of the Ministry of Transport: an agreement was signed with Oman on air connection. Now Belarusian passengers and goods can fly there. I asked my colleagues what they know about this exotic country. They laugh: “We haven’t heard anything about Oman, except perhaps about the OMON (the riot police).”
What does Belarus have in common with a distant power, even the capital of which none of us named? This, as it is written on Wikipedia, is an absolute monarchy led by the little-known Sultan Haytham bin Tariq Al Said. Well, our country has already turned into a kind of sultanate, in fact, a Russian protectorate. Just the local Sultan is known throughout the world for his black deeds and idle talk.
We talked in the department and agreed that Belarus, under the rule of the dictator, quickly slipped into tourist isolation. Even 4 years ago we could fly almost all over the world. Whoever wanted to, independently obtained visas, reserved hotels and bought tickets from Vilnius, Kaunas and Warsaw. Those who were lazy could pay twice as much to a travel company for all this care and fly from Minsk to the same Greece or Spain.
Now where will you fly from our main airport? To the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia... Some of our friends flew to Yerevan at the end of spring to rest. Upon returning to the airport, they were subjected to a thorough inspection. As a result, the punishers found some suspicious contacts in the smartphone and arranged for the travelers a free transfer directly to prison.
They were also lucky that they were only arrested for a couple of days and then released. In the end, the poor fellows had to go abroad again, already as refugees.
Another friend of ours, having obtained a Schengen visa with great effort, flew in the usual way from Vilnius on a Ryanair plane. But he had to go by car with his wife and two children across the land border: it took 12 hours to get there, and 8 hours back. He was tired and stressed, got an injury, and is now recovering from such the most expensive vacation in every sense of his life.
In general, for many now, as they say, the situation has reached the “beggars can't be choosers” point. Even those who have money are in no hurry to spend it on expensive relaxation on the shores of a warm sea. It is better to leave cash for a “rainy day”, which is very likely for all residents of present-day Belarus.
At the end of the discussion, my colleagues and I came to a common conclusion. A similar agreement should be signed with another monarchy called the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Well, Belarusians will not spare any money for a ticket to the Hague airport for one mustachioed VIP client.
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