Well, Central Asia is somehow culturally different from the French colonies.
As for Belarus you once wrote you watch ‘bald and bankrupt’ Limey vlogger. He has extensive coverage of Belarus and it is clear from his videos it is a socialist country, a piece of USSR frozen around 1980.
Oh, I’m not saying the economy couldn’t be better. But it’s not really my business what kind of economy Belarus has. It does seem to be a stable society, and all the videos of Minsk seem to indicate it’s a very clean city, certainly compared to Paris these days.
Maybe a bit boring, but sometimes, boring is good.
Always a kick to guess how many times he'll say the word, "Soviet" in one of his videos.