13.09.2026 Evening Stroll. Minsk after dark.

Hectic walk

It took few hours after my day walk to recharge my camera, and my own batteries.💪 But after the sun had set, I moved out to capture the night side of Minsk.🌃 For this stroll I wanted to visit more local parks in the very center of the city. Bad idea. Not only the route I took was uneventful due to a road being closed for construction, but the parks themselves had very little illumination. So the walk was quite boring.😒

Until I arrived to Victory park. The stella and the memorial were a sight to behold.⭐✨ And the fact that you need to walk up to it gives a strong feeling to it. The red backlight looks moderate from afar, but right beside it is blinding and also hot.

After a few minutes up there I moved do to the park itself. Again, it was very dark, so I only got to the nearby Li-2✈️ plane and went towards the Victors avenue. This is where the video ends. But in reality I went on for about half an hour. And I can’t show you that because of an incident.

The incident

So I went in for a bottle of water to take a short break and continue my stroll. A group of annoying children went after me, asking nonsense and calling me slurs. But whatever, this happens occasionally and I’m not really bothered of that. The bad thing happened when I approached Independence Palace. Or as I call it - Lukashenko’s estate.

And look, I kinda knew what I was dealing with. A few days ago, when we went to a local convention that was going near the Palace as well. And they specifically issued a warning, prohibiting masked cosplayers to walk outside the event hall. So year, you can call me stupid for this stunt.😅

Anyway.

I waltzed right towards the main gates. With my flashlight blasting into my face, ‘cause it’s dark outside and I’m filming myself. I juggled around the entrance for about 5 minutes, trying to get shorts and photos with the Estate properly in frame. After this I went around the Estate to film some more. No one stopped me at the gates, so I thought I was in the clear.

Apparently not. In the distance I see a black van pulling over, blocking my way.🚓 With a three men getting out of it and approaching me. “Well, shit…” I thought to myself and turned off the camera.

They were members of Belarus OMON (special police force). They asked me to take off my mask and show my passport. I won’t go into much details about our conversation, aside from it being surprisingly polite despite various complications. They took a photo of me without a mask, a photo of my passport, I explained that I’m recording myself walking around the city, showed them my youtube channel, briefly explained kigurumi stuff and the convention I went prior. They looked through the photos and videos I took and asked me to delete everything that had the Palace on it. Sadly, it meant that everything after a stop at the store was gone. But atleast they didn’t took the camera or detained me.🫡

After that I walked around for some more, but with the Palace being my goal for this walk I soon decided to take a ride back to my apartments. All and all, the walk itself was fine I guess, but the experience I got from the encounter was kinda worth it. Once again this reinforced my idea that police don’t really care about kigurumi stuff, and when you’re not being a jerk or act like a terrorist, they will usually leave you alone. Even when you do something bad.😁

Also, call me crazy, but I barely stressed during our conversation. Guess I do have some screws loose. Or maybe I just haven’t had my ass kicked for quite some time. I any case, I’m alive and well now. Maybe without any photos of this event, but I will always have it in my memories. And it’ll remain a cool story to tell.

Hope you’ll enjoy whatever recordings I had left from this evening.