Foreign journalists can now come to Belarus without a visa

A nice lady from the press ser­vice of the For­eign Min­istry told me today that for­eign jour­nal­ists can now come offi­cial­ly to Belarus with­out a visa, giv­en that they enter Belarus by plane from any coun­try oth­er than Rus­sia.

Accord­ing to the For­eign Min­istry, for­eign jour­nal­ists now fall under the gen­er­al rule of visa-free stay for cit­i­zens of 74 coun­tries pub­lished here.

Jornos still need an accred­i­ta­tion, but it’s fair­ly easy to get. Nobody gets denied these days. See how to get a press accred­i­ta­tion here.