Interesting info about Belarus, thanks Dmitry!
Sorry to hear that you have health problems, I hope it's nothing serious.

Seems like a VERY wise decision of you to go into IT and not be a regular engineer. What's your speciality? I used to be a programmer, mainly Java but now I am a project manager. I guess if I worked in Belarus, I'd be earning in the range that you mentioned.

I thought people had more holiday than 2+2 weeks in Belarus - that's not much!
About the devaluations - yes that is rubbish, and a real failure by the BY government. They should not have allowed that to happen and it's understandable that people are upset about it. I did not see any protests or queue for changing money when I was in Belarus, but many people were really angry and disappointed.

In France, they have 6 weeks per year.... (paid). And I met a couple from Murmansk (when I was in Belarus). He had 7 weeks paid holiday, and his wife 5. The husband got extra due to being in the Arctic area but that was the most extreme I have ever heard.