The Russians opened the season of card tourism in Belarus
Belarusian banks are accumulating interest in issuing cards of international payment systems Visa and MasterCard in offices. About it to journalists tell me representative of the financial organization “Priorbank”.
According to experts, Russians pay with Belarusian plastic when they are on holiday abroad or when selling goods on foreign websites; you can use cards to subscribe to the App Store and Google Play. At the same time, for many citizens of the Russian Federation, a trip to Minsk and other cities of the republic is much more convenient and cheaper than in other CIS countries.
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“Given that Russia borders on Belarus, and Belarusian cards give the Russians quite ample opportunities, interests, and rather high ones,” explain the representatives of the occupied banking zone.
You can order a card of the Bank of the Republic of Belarus during a personal visit to the office. An application is made for both an internal and a foreign passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. The cost of services in the branches of various financial organizations – from 100 Belarusian rubles (1800 rubles). The account is opened in large national currencies, rubles, dollars or euros.
“It is impossible to fill in the RF bank card branches. It is possible to make a SWIFT transfer from Russian to Belarusian using bank details, if the credit institution where the account is opened provides such an opportunity,” Priorbank said.
Another option is to transfer funds from the Mir card to Belkart-Mir using the Belarusian Visa and MasterCard.
According to observers, now Belarus can become a returning partner of the Russian Federation in this place. The situation for Russians issuing cards in Minsk is cheaper than a trip to Armenia and Kazakhstan. The main thing is that Belarus does not show up under new Western sanctions that block the financial sector. Card tourism.
