XMAS ’23: GOSSIP AND CHEERS

XMAS ’23: GOSSIP AND CHEERS

Hey guys this is Andre your real estate agent and certified translator in Belarus and I couldn’t resist doing a little Christmas uh issue of uh the local update so to speak and it gives you notice from the decorations we’ll just alter one little thing in this bad sound settings will be mostly talking

Rumors gossip personal Reflections personal messages from me to my audience which is mostly good nice people and and uh let’s get started some of the audience are actually my clients they know why exactly I work in the settings like this minus the Christmas hat of course my work involves a lot of walking

Driving running about just to get you first in the line and get you out of the bureaucratic office in 30 minutes in instead of half a day uh generally I’m very um allergic to any leather coated Furniture some spacious offices which all go into your bill by the way if you

Prefer such things and generally I prefer a human touch to the communication and call white things white and calling black things black sometimes I’m too straightforward doing this but that’s how I am and I’m proud to be able to keep my style rather than getting some company charter upon my

Shoulders and smile those uh you know insincere McDonald smiles to people that I don’t like people that I don’t like I’m not dealing with that’s the point in the modern world of media it’s a bit hard to tell what’s going to hit you first as YouTube censorship or some kind

Of local operators that uh or agencies that are U allergic to different content posted or voiced even uh outside your kitchen I’m in my client’s kitchen it’s a nice place in Western Minsk jinsky Avenue the water is uh of of really ugly quality by the way filters don’t help

Much so that’s not the point the point is many thanks to my contributors Channel helpers Channel p patreon uh sponsors to my channel members most of this colorful picture is coming out because you still believe in me and many thanks for that what’s going to be voiced now is just my personal opinion

I’m still sober it’s still beginning of the day here uh December 24th maybe we’ll meet with some xats tonight at the announced place it will be underneath the video in the video description I would like to point point out again that this is my personal opinion this isn’t really an information

Release just a digestive headlines and some thoughts of mine that I’m sharing with you I’ll I’ll accent the point that one year ago I said the economy is going to go down in five weeks and I was wrong so I’m not really willing to make any predictions or analysis breakdown for

The year for two reasons firstly this table is too small for that kind of thing if you remember the Kremlin tables for the big big meetings they’re a little bit bigger so you have uh more detailed charts on them and secondly analysis of any kind with more or less

Guaranteed outcomes is really not coming for free but I’m happy to share my thoughts with you and I’m happy that you are finding free time to listen to this Russian Ukrainian War seems to be coming to its uh end as a businessman I hate Wars I don’t like aggressive solution

Resolution of a contract and even the crooks we going to discuss later our Indian and Pakistani friends who borrowed a lot of money from their Indian friend they are unwilling to cooperate which forces us to undertake legal action address the police and pull other strings just to make them very

Uncomfortable we’ll touch upon this later but speaking of Ukraine the Draft rules have stepped up they’re drafting women now they’re drafting football teams and some other similar things are in place and Russia seemingly doesn’t doesn’t have a shortage of Manpower in the front line although there are

Various different reports on this I will not be arguing or even discussing the reasons let’s just recall the facts uh Western media in this way or the other by removing that Ukrainian flag from the header by injecting headlines which are bigger and bigger in size of the font

Suggest that Ukrainian side is not going to be achieving its goals that it has set before itself to return to the 199 one or 94 borders was it and there must be some kind of a peace deal because the Western capitals and Military where houses are running short of supplies in

Light of the ongoing War Russian economy is really not increasing as as a guy on the ground as an operator than tour guide in 2014 I noticed that after this rather Swift crimeia takeover Russian tourist started spending less and clearly so by 2018 and 19 now this new year is going

To show us how many Russian money Spenders will be recreating here instead of the rest of the Civilized Europe let’s go it this way and uh we’ll see which way it’s going to go after March the 17th was it that’s when the Russian elections are taking place Russian Ruble

Value is not reflecting its market value because exchange rate was lowered artificially after September let’s say stirrings in the media that Rubble has reached 100 rubles against the dollar level and that’s not very good so they dropped it to 90 rubles against the dollar and only Market operators can

Really tell us how valuable Rubble is now but its buying power is lower now and after March devaluation pretty massive one in Russia may be a possibility 2014 uh Crimean sanctions by the way got most of the niche country stuff like French wines and Italian cheeses and

Stuff like this sanctioned out of Russia and that’s how the country that will be nameless started repacking thousands of tons of this stuff into Maiden B uh labels and this cheerfully found its way to Russia so you can see how effective the Western sanctions may be although now there’s some 20,000 sanctions

Against Russia and still the country seems to be doing well rebuilding its economy eastwards and dodging the sanctions the best way it can by the way some EU bureaucrats were heard of actually running businesses which were directly responsible for shipping stuff to Russia we will not discuss the nature

Of this stuff but basically they were dealing with Russia very much and I was myself surprised to learn the other day there are operators here that have just entered the US market and that’s kind of interesting in light of all the sanction stuff and just one Bank uh capable of handling uh

Incoming dollar and Euro transfers into belus from abroad oil and gas winnings for Russia are shrinking because they’re traditional through the last two years clients like China and India not really Cooperative India was buying oil for rupees which was a step away from the US dollar but now Russia is sitting on the

Stack of rupies that apparently are just um use useless basically because there isn’t that much that India can supply to Russia to make use of this currency the huge oil tanker Fleet that Russia acquired to be able to shift its oil to its Southern clients is now under

Sanctions as well there are a few big boats with dripping oil in the Indian Ocean somewhere standing by unloading except it can’t happen unless there is a sea unloading which brings its own risks from environmental to commercial ones because Indians just don’t want to play with sanctions and that that’s

Unfortunate for the Russian Uh Russian buyers of those old tankers because they are just ancient there was a fortune spent on them and apparently that’s now useless just as useless as 300 billion euro worth of money that was blocked by Europe but they like carefully meticulously researching the way to

Steal it from Russia and put it into the disrupted infrastructure of Ukraine the philosophical context of this we will remain undiscussed um the point is the point is that uh let’s say economy of our friends and now we’re pretty badly Russian oriented economy ourselves is not benefiting and the growth of

3.5% comes out of some fiddling with figures pretty much overpaid Army personnel and based on average Russian salaries of say 50,000 rubles a month 200,000 rubles a month month for the military seems very handsome uh they paid their salaries and the injured Personnel gets their compensations and of course there are

Compensations for the losses of family members all this is not helping the economy because this money is not earned in a normal way the produce the uh manufactured goods the tanks the rockets and everything they’re not really helping to you know build economy its normal natural way they are exploding

They are destroying they destroying themselves drones and stuff so that’s not really how 3.5% GDP can be estimated as such that’s a little bit of play with the figures and the defense industry is having 30% GDP allocations within the next year it seems in Russia so that kind of a investment definitely speaks

Of some oncoming issues for the rest of the economy because that military uh economy is drawing people to work at the Enterprises plants factories of the defense sector from the subsidized poor regions of Russia they are taking loans they are buying their new stuff they were always dreaming off with the new

Opportunities and if all this were to come to an end and it just can’t last forever on itself own naturally the unpaid UNR returned loans and all these installments and everything will be just buried somewhere and the system is not going to benefit from this on top of the

Tunnel visioned life Planning by the overpaid Factory workers now we also have the potentially large groups of demobbed personnel and we’ll leave the psychological uh and philosophical issues on the side here there will be guys who would have to find their niche in life that was fast changing after

They left home and spent more than a year at the front line these guys would have to adapt again to the new realities and that’s going to bring some unemployed and potentially quite aggressive ones to the Russian labor market and that’s not good for the economy also a great deal of runaways

GDP generators essentially it guys and all other kinds of Niche Specialists doctors on top of others so it’s not just to focus on it are outside the country many are forever we won’t say they’re exclusively ran away some actually did come back and that’s also the point and some of them are relaxed

And are not waiting are not feeling the mobilization of some kind is coming again but again the huge outflow of people who were capable smart thinking okay they were critical the regime didn’t like it that loss is also going to hit the economy in the long-term run

And generally for now Russia has been more or less successfully dodging the sanctions by our Western friends because our Western friends are really not transparent they are not integral whatever word you can use for non-corrupt they’re pretty corrupt and uh they are definitely not minding earning business on the ongoing troubles

From from both sides so with all these factors and many other things that I just can’t voice because I either don’t know them or they’re too let’s say straightforward to be voiced I would say that Russia is going to dodge the sanctions not endlessly but so far more or less

Effectively it didn’t help to drop their economy and stop their economy and ours tied up to it as well and uh because of the enormous EU bureaucracy because of the multiple rather contradictory opinions because of corruption which also exists in EU by by looks of it and pragmatic interests of different EU

Bureaucrats who themselves operate those businesses dodging their own gut name sanctions and again just a remark as a business operator here in Belarus I very much object sanctions of all kinds although they also present an opportunity but they hamper natural flow of ways ideas capitals and people in different directions and they’re not Productive A little bit of personal stuff now I have been relocating people to B for the last three years now there’s an army of some 50 plus people most of them are in the country I know only three or four cases when people actually left and some

Of the those who stayed and some of those who left actually proved that my Paradigm my my techniques are working and in the first line the general message here I’m not selling anything specific but Solutions I’m not selling houses I’m not selling Flats I’m not selling equipment of any kind I am

Consulting and facilitating people’s change of of Life essentially one of the major Updates this year mostly those were Americans half a dozen but still there were Americans relocating here to belar uh the village houses get checked on the ground which I’m very happy about because although it brings up some

Bureaucracy added bureaucracy to the application uh the technique still works it’s still a $9,000 ticket for the good Europeans or Americans to get their one-year residency and some of my 2021 baby refugees are now getting their shiny Flats mostly in Minsk and this works village houses change their hands

Some people upgrade them some people buy new Lodge the whole thing is is working basically and people are staying here just now we’re shopping for a flat for my European client a shiny one room flat we started with the traditional cheapest cheapest thing for a base kovka $45,000

But after having seen what we saw the endless horrors of the budget Market of Minsk we ended up with Bava option NOA Bava for uh around $60,000 I’ll I I’ll basically shoot a dedicated video on how it ended one of my clients an american guy if I recall

Left for China with his new wife he’s in his 40s she’s in her 20s the funny thing that struck me is that she deletes any contacts on his phone that she believes are not work related uh as we were driving about and his village house went to another

American we were talking about all these uh private life things but seems like it’s a very curious marriage and it’s curious how long it’s going to last with that kind of a mistrust level and limitation level of the freedoms of of by default Freedom loving guy from the

West I was not thinking there so you know tell me the best word to to to use for this when uh Madame who is not really of the same age for some reason runs the whole show for them and they like okay okay yes we’ll get it done yes

Honey I’ll be back home in 2 hours and 5 minutes at any rate that client who married that young girl was one of the best and most human guys with good approach to his contracted Workforce that is myself always paid his uh flat bills in time taxes and everything just

A Model guy I’m wishing him all the best and maybe we’ll see each other again at some point my French client left the country because of the strange conduct of his girlfriend he was a solid guy he served in the Army he was in his 50s with his pretty handsome business he

Rented one of the most expensive Flats in town and uh after his girlfriend asked him if there were any cameras in the building which is a very strange thing from uh let’s say any half smart girlfriend to ask uh you know when she’s entering building of that kind it’s a

Very strange thing then the other thing that uh rang alarm bells for him was uh when he left the country he few basically a few hours before he left the country he bumped into what guys who could be her friends and they asked him by name if that was him they were

Looking for him in the lobby of his uh building and he said uh no it wasn’t it’s not me I’m not this guy quickly went upstairs packed his stuff ran away from the country left his company hanging in the air to the Delight of enormous Delight of the accountant and

Uh I had to resolve some of the checkout issues for him for the flat later on the power of attorney so it sounds like some 1990s Mafia drama from Russia but things just don’t add up very well uh the that kind of thing that kind of crime let’s

Say whatever they were planning to do to him is not really typical of Minsk from any angle it’s the first cas case like this I’m having on my hands and uh I wish he just called me to try and get in touch with these Crooks and resolve the

Matter before even we called any police I mean legally diplomatically talk to each other see what the problem of uh point of problem is and you know work out some solutions and then maybe call the cops uh this French Runway case also showed that my technique with real

Estate is much better because the company which which will never return invested $4,000 plus all the moves related to it will die on its own peacefully and the property would have just changed hands returning the guy his money paid for the ticket so to speak so

That is still backing the house idea for 2024 which is a promising challenging year hopefully I’m not sure what I’m going to record in 365 days after having said this I have a new business concept all the village houses will become nice Barn houses of roughly $60,000 worth and

We’ll be reselling them to the new individuals who are coming into the country who wish to get some fresh Village air maybe chicken eggs and enjoy the infrastructure of the nearby cities so these are going to be small villages with a few dozen strong Community with a fully built and furnished house I’ll

Video blog that as well of course and any any willing foreign Capital holders are actually most welcome to take part in this little Enterprise of mine although an American sponsor of this video of of this channel essentially is very welcome to be number one guy to test drive this new Niche we will

Benefit uh from dealing exactly with the prod directly with the producer of The Wooden uh parts and he’s the guy I worked with already and construction and Furniture production is the most uh mind crashing uh thing to deal with here in Belarus not sure about the other countries but many tourists since 2018

Told me that yeah contractors and building and renovation are really ugly guys and it’s a lottery but we’ll see what happens after of that and we’ll film a shiny nice video blog for you guys last but not least the fat Rolls-Royce guys ran away to Latin

America from where he is doing some uh not so shiny blogs about things down there in Latin America and in belus some sometimes mentioning topics that draw attention from his old audience although the audience dropped by a few hundred guys who actually seem to have had some

Money there are just a few thousand uh subscribers left who just like watching cartoons on a Sunday afternoon and uh I seem to have official ways of uh making his life more challenging out there in the new country I’ll see if that works uh by the way if any of you guys have

Any connections in Brazil I mean like high connections I’ll be interested to send a message officially from my company about this guy’s dealings here in Belarus blessedly it seems that the two twin Indian filmmakers are actually now just one Indian filmmaker the two twin brothers in uh Belarus have been

Borrowing a lot of money and one of them is out of the country already the other has stayed and I’ll try to legally kick him out of this country uh by May next year we’ll see how it goes and uh it’s kind of going to be more challenging

Than my economic prediction for the year but it seems that he has uh let’s say dug himself into IL legal Grave by going to the police and making statements that went on the paper which is a perfect food for a tax office or a court and my other client who lost $440,000 investing

Into that restaurant is now very happy to finish this deal uh in any way and not necessarily getting his money back by the way KJ cheers from belarusan marry Christmas I’m pretty sure you celebrate that thing as well you’re a pretty Democratic guy and we’ll see what happens to that Charming business guy

Who is not really a Charming business guy and for dessert the Pakistani KW Zia Khan a lawyer who is not lawyer uh the guy who is selling tickets to the Polish border except he doesn’t know the car director so to speak the guy that had the guy who’s actually a crew cheerfully

Paraded out of the police office where we got him in April this year and my greatest respect come to him as an escape artist as a crook artist I I like when an operator is that capable and flexible he’s one of my subscribers by the way so Z if you’re watching this

Merry Christmas to you too and um pretty confident that 2024 is going to put a full stop in this guy’s operations if he’s still in Belarus will’ll try to find a creative way of uh getting his introduction to the police here and and we’ll will share the outcome on another

Video with more bet hen soundtracks at the back so guys this will be about it thank you very much for watching the supporters salute to you Merry Christmas everybody who’s celebrating I mean it’s Merry Christmas New Year and merry Christmas over here the Russian Orthodox and the Catholics and cheers to B

Hopefully 2024 is going to be more productive thank you and see you in M somay cheers it was December 24th on H sa at the dark when I seen a man chilling with his dog at the park I appro them very slowly With My Heart

Full of fear looked at his dog oh my God a ill rer but then I was good the man at a beard and bag full of f 12:00 at n so I turned my head a second and the man was gone put he must drop his W smack

Dead on the lawn I picked the W it up and then I took a pause took out the light and then it co said Santa Claus a million dollar in it co H je enough to buy a magic with e but I never that a right was going the man to him night

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