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🇧🇾 AvoidIs Belarus Safe for First-Time Travelers?
Safety Scores / Belarus
Travel verdict: Do Not Travel. The scores and risks below say why.
Safety Scores
Key Risks
- Authoritarian government; arbitrary detention of foreigners
- Active supporter of Russia's war on Ukraine; Western sanctions in place
- LGBTQ+ travel extremely unsafe; criminalization and persecution
- Western governments advise against all travel
Travel Verdict: Do Not Travel
Most Western governments advise against all travel; risk of arbitrary arrest is high
Soviet-era healthcare; serious medical conditions require evacuation
International cards largely blocked due to sanctions; cash only
Emergency: 112
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