Belarus: Travels in One of Europe's Least-Traveled Countries — huffingtonpost.com

When you enter a country often hyped in international media as a draconian dictatorship, it's hard to know what to expect. I felt a tad nervous when traveling to Brest, Belarus from the tiny border town of Terespol, Poland by train. Even for my Polish friends, Belarus -- a landlocked country of just 9.5 million people that's had the same president for over 20 years -- seemed closed-off, a place they had not imagined visiting.

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