Lithuania to turn migrants crossing in from Belarus away
3 years, 4 months ago

Lithuania to turn migrants crossing in from Belarus away

Associated Press  

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania has ordered its border guards to turn away, by force if needed, migrants attempting to enter the Baltic country, as a surge of Iraqis and others coming in from neighboring Belarus has emerged as a major foreign policy issue. The Interior Ministry distributed a video shot from a helicopter as a proof that large groups of immigrants were being escorted to Lithuania’s EU border by vehicles belonging to Belarus border guards. Lithuania’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday that at least three large migrant groups were stopped in thick woods in the border between the two countries, and Lithuanian border guards ordered them to return back to Belarus. If that method proves unsuccessful, he said Lithuania has reserved the right to use force to keep the migrants away but “the use of force depends on circumstances.” “It can not be ruled out that officers will face aggression” from migrants, Abramavicius said, adding the measures were necessary to stop illegal border crossings.

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Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland on Thursday reintroduced restrictions on movement along parts of the border with Belarus because of increased migration pressure that has involved violence against Polish security officials. The ban taking effect Thursday will be valid for 90 days and affects 60 kilometers of the land border between NATO member Poland and Belarus, an autocratic state aligned with …

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure
6 months, 1 week ago

Poland reintroduces restrictions on accessing areas along Belarus border due to migration pressure

The Independent  

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Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along the border rise
10 months ago

Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along the border rise

Associated Press  

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania decided Wednesday to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. Wednesday’s decision was fueled “by the risks associated with the increased activities of the Belarusian intelligence and security services against Lithuania and our citizens,” Lithuania’s Interior Minister Agnė …

Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along border rise
10 months ago

Lithuania to close 2 more checkpoints with Russian ally Belarus as tensions along border rise

LA Times  

Lithuanian soldiers patrol a road near the Lithuania-Belarus border near the village of Jaskonys, about 100 miles south of the capital, Vilnius, on Nov. 13, 2021. Lithuania decided Wednesday to seal off another two of its six checkpoints with Belarus as of next month, amid growing tensions with its eastern neighbor, an ally of Russia. Wednesday’s decision was fueled “by …

Lithuania closes two border crossings with Belarus amid growing tensions
1 year, 4 months ago

Lithuania closes two border crossings with Belarus amid growing tensions

Al Jazeera  

Lithuania temporarily shuts two of six checkpoints located on shared 680km border with Belarus over security concerns. Lithuanian will temporarily close two of the country’s six border crossings with Belarus due to what the government said were “geopolitical circumstances”, and as concerns grow in the region over the presence of thousands of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries within Belarusian territory. Belarus, …

Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border
1 year, 4 months ago

Lithuania to temporarily close two checkpoints with Belarus amid tensions on border

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Lithuania on Wednesday decided to …

Latvia sends soldiers to boost security on border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Latvia sends soldiers to boost security on border with Belarus

Al Jazeera  

Latvia says country is facing increased ‘hybrid threats’ and blames Belarusian authorities of involvement in encouraging people to cross border. Latvia’s defence minister has ordered the army to help guard the country’s border with Belarus amid what was described as “hybrid threats” facing the country and as a reported 96 attempts were made by people to cross the border in …

Poland to send up to 10,000 soldiers to border with Belarus
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to send up to 10,000 soldiers to border with Belarus

Al Jazeera  

Poland has expressed concerns about the border area since hundreds of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries arrived in Belarus last month. Poland is planning to move up to 10,000 additional troops to the border with Belarus to support the border guard force, according to Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. Poland has worried increasingly about the border area since hundreds of battle-hardened Wagner mercenaries …

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — The Polish government announced Wednesday that it is planning to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard agency had requested, as fears of illegal migration rise. In an interview with state news agency PAP, a deputy interior minister, Maciej Wasik announced the decision and accused the Belarusian authorities …

Lithuania declares more than 1,000 Belarusians and Russians to be national security risks
1 year, 4 months ago

Lithuania declares more than 1,000 Belarusians and Russians to be national security risks

Associated Press  

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania declared more than a thousand citizens of Russia and Belarus living in the country to be threats to national security on Friday and said it was stripping them of their permanent residency permits. The Migration Department said Friday that it had established that 1,164 Belarusian and Russian citizens residing in Lithuania posed a threat to national …

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO's eastern flank

The Independent  

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Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank
1 year, 4 months ago

Poland and Lithuania say they fear provocations from Russia and Belarus at NATO’s eastern flank

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish and Lithuanian leaders held an urgent meeting Thursday in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, warning that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area. Both nations on NATO’s eastern flank have increased their border security following the arrival of thousands of …

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel
1 year, 6 months ago

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus’ offer of visa-free travel

Associated Press  

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring Poland and Lithuania might see a sudden increase in unauthorized migration. The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, signed a decree allowing citizens of 73 countries — including ones in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America — to …

People crossing into Latvia allege torture by security services
1 year, 8 months ago

People crossing into Latvia allege torture by security services

Al Jazeera  

A Syrian refugee who fled from Belarus says border guards put out cigarettes on his war wounds. He was then taken to another tent, one which Kiwan claims was overseen by six masked members of Latvia’s security forces, whom he could not definitively identify as either Latvian State Border Guard members or regular police officers. “They told me that if …

Lithuania seeks compensation from Belarus for migrant crisis
1 year, 8 months ago

Lithuania seeks compensation from Belarus for migrant crisis

Associated Press  

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania is seeking up to 120 million euros in compensation from Belarus, accusing its eastern neighbor of orchestrating the immigration of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East. Since 2021, when the European Union imposed sanctions on Belarus and its longtime authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, the number of people seeking to cross into Lithuania …

Latvia calls watchdog’s migrant mistreatment claims ‘absurd’
2 years, 2 months ago

Latvia calls watchdog’s migrant mistreatment claims ‘absurd’

The Hindu  

Latvia on October 13 rejected as “absurd" claims by Amnesty International that it is violently mistreating migrants attempting to enter the European Union member country through Belarus. The human rights watchdog said in a report released on Thursday that Latvian authorities have violently pushed back refugees and migrants — mostly from Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East — from …

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia
2 years, 4 months ago

Poland sees rise of African migrants coming through Russia

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials on Thursday reported a change in migration patterns across the country’s border with Belarus, with Africans who first traveled to Russia making up most of those seeking to enter Poland illegally by that route instead of people from the Mideast. The government said the African migrants include individuals passing through Russia, a close ally and …

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland to end state of emergency along border with Belarus

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s government announced Thursday that it will lift a state of emergency on July 1 along its border with Belarus as it completes the construction of a wall aimed at stopping migrants and refugees. Poland began building the wall and restricted the rights of most people to enter the border area after large number of migrants, most …

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest
2 years, 6 months ago

Poland-Belarus border: The people pushed back in a Polish forest

Al Jazeera  

Listen to this story: Białystok, Poland – Mahir* and Hasan* wove their way through a forest in eastern Poland. The pair were able to cross into Poland and avoid Polish border guards, who have been accused of “pushbacks” of non-European refugees and migrants entering their country via the “red zone” – a 3km-wide strip running along the roughly 400km border …

More than 2.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia’s invasion. Here’s where they are now
2 years, 9 months ago

More than 2.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia’s invasion. Here’s where they are now

CNN  

CNN — In the span of just two weeks, millions of Ukrainian refugees have been forced to flee as the brutal Russian invasion of their homeland continues. While many residents in the central and eastern portions of the country have relocated to western Ukraine and away from the front lines, more than 2.5 million Ukrainians have left entirely following Russia’s …

At Ukrainian border, overwhelmed guards, volunteers confront exodus of refugees
2 years, 9 months ago

At Ukrainian border, overwhelmed guards, volunteers confront exodus of refugees

Live Mint  

Within days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, the line of cars carrying people fleeing to the country’s border with Poland was already 55 miles long. In just a week since the war with Russia began, more than one million refugees have left Ukraine, most headed west into Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova. On the eve of the …

Freezing temp, clogged borders, long queues as civilians flee Ukraine. In pictures
2 years, 9 months ago

Freezing temp, clogged borders, long queues as civilians flee Ukraine. In pictures

Hindustan Times  

More than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations, since Russia's invasion last week, setting off a massive refugee crisis with tens of thousands awaiting passage at European border crossings. Ukrainian refugees have also fled to other bordering nations, including Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, that, as members of the EU and NATO, offer safe havens ostensibly beyond …

ALL EU countries will take in Ukrainian refugees for up to three years without asylum applications
2 years, 9 months ago

ALL EU countries will take in Ukrainian refugees for up to three years without asylum applications

Daily Mail  

The EU will take in Ukrainian refugees without asking them to apply for asylum first, it was announced tonight, as hundreds of thousands of terrified citizens continue to flee their homes amid the ongoing Russian invasion. It comes as huddled masses of Ukrainian women and children escaping Russian bombs today rode trains, cars and ferries from cities including Lviv in …

Fleeing to the border: Over 150,000 Ukrainians seek refuge
2 years, 9 months ago

Fleeing to the border: Over 150,000 Ukrainians seek refuge

Associated Press  

MEDYKA, Poland — Dragging suitcases and carrying children, tens of thousands of Ukrainians rushed to the borders Saturday as invading Russian troops pressed on with their march toward Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. At least 150,000 people have fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion, the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday. Even Hungarian …

Photos: Ukrainians flee to borders en masse
2 years, 9 months ago

Photos: Ukrainians flee to borders en masse

Al Jazeera  

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing from the war and crossing borders to the west in search of safety as Russia pounded their capital and other cities with air raids. Cars were backed up for several kilometres at some border crossings as authorities in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova mobilised to receive them, offering shelter, food and legal …

Ukraine: Tens of thousands flee to Poland amid Russian attacks
2 years, 9 months ago

Ukraine: Tens of thousands flee to Poland amid Russian attacks

Al Jazeera  

Nine reception centres have been set up along the border in Poland, which already has a community of 1.5 million Ukrainians. Poland’s Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker Saturday said 115,000 people had crossed the border into Poland from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion started this week. “At this moment, there are 115,000 people who have crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border since the …

Poland begins work on $400m Belarus border wall against refugees
2 years, 11 months ago

Poland begins work on $400m Belarus border wall against refugees

Al Jazeera  

Polish contractors have begun work on a new 353 million euro wall along the Belarus border aimed at deterring refugee crossings following a crisis in the area last year. Thousands of refugees and migrants – mostly from the Middle East – crossed or attempted to cross the border from Belarus into Poland last year. It also built a razor-wire fence …

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods
2 years, 11 months ago

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland rapped over Belarus border methods

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Latvia, Lithuania and Poland continue to use questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus and are denying access to aid groups trying to help people stuck in border areas, senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials said Thursday. She did say that border tensions have “de-escalated significantly,” and that the EU has helped …

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe
3 years ago

Migrants camped in Belarus warehouse still hope to reach Europe

The Independent  

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‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border
3 years ago

‘Go through,’ Lukashenko tells migrants at Belarus-Poland border

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told …

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?
3 years, 1 month ago

What next for the refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland?

Al Jazeera  

Even if Belarus and the EU reach a deal, analysts say refugees may be long left in limbo at the border or in detention centres. Although Dennison said Belarus’ approach was unlikely to work, he predicted the EU and Minsk may eventually agree on “some face-saving measure” that involve people being returned to their countries of origin, “possibly paid for …

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border
3 years, 1 month ago

A new humanitarian crisis unfolds at the Polish-Belarusian border

Al Jazeera  

For weeks, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, trapped as forces from the two countries face off against each other. The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring the refugees and migrants to the border to use them as pawns to destabilise the …

Belarus says more than 100 refugees flown home
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus says more than 100 refugees flown home

Al Jazeera  

Minsk claims further repatriation flights will take place on Tuesday as the border crisis rumbles on. The group of 118 people left on Monday from the country’s national airport in the capital, Minsk, the head of the migration department at Belarus’s interior ministry, Alexei Begun, told state news agency BELTA on Tuesday. Critics say Belarus is trying to destabilise Europe …

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Lukashenko warns against flare-up with Poland over border crisis

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian president calls for European powers to work with Minsk but Berlin rejects proposal to take in 2,000 people. President Alexander Lukashenko has said Belarus seeks no confrontation with Poland but wants European powers to work with Minsk to resolve the migration crisis along his country’s border with Poland, adding that if the crisis deteriorated “too far, war is unavoidable”. …

The victims of the Belarus border crisis were obvious. For Poland’s government, it was a useful distraction
3 years, 1 month ago

The victims of the Belarus border crisis were obvious. For Poland’s government, it was a useful distraction

CNN  

CNN — It was clear who the losers were in the dispute between Poland and Belarus. But Dempsey added: “With this whole crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, Law and Justice now is seen as a champion of protecting Polish sovereignty and, of course, protecting Europe.” State of emergency The decision by Poland’s government – which also opposed taking in refugees …

Poland says Belarus still bringing migrants to its border
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland says Belarus still bringing migrants to its border

Al Jazeera  

Polish border guard said Belarusian servicemen brought about 100 migrants and refugees to its frontier on Saturday night. Poland has accused Belarus of continuing to ferry migrants to its border despite clearing camps close to the frontier earlier this week, as the country’s prime minister started a tour of Baltic states to seek support in the crisis. The border guard …

Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns

LA Times  

A Muslim community buried a Yemeni migrant, Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Raimi, in Bohoniki, Poland, on Sunday. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, following talks with Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte about ways of solving the “very difficult situation” at the borders of EU members with Belarus. Poland’s Border Guard said Sunday it prevented a forceful …

Belarus bringing hundreds in trucks to cross into EU: Poland
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus bringing hundreds in trucks to cross into EU: Poland

Al Jazeera  

Despite diplomatic attempts to ease the crisis, Warsaw says it has detained more people who tried to enter the EU overnight. Polish Border Guard spokeswoman Anna Michalska said on Friday that a group of 500 people had tried to enter the European Union member state on Thursday evening, aided by Belarusian authorities who had earlier cleared the main camps at …

Poland: Migrant camps along Belarus border have emptied
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland: Migrant camps along Belarus border have emptied

LA Times  

Red Cross employees distribute aid to migrants at a checkpoint on the Belarus-Poland border on Friday. Polish authorities said Friday there are no more migrants camping along the Belarus side of the European Union’s eastern border, but attempts at illegally crossing into the bloc’s territory are continuing and becoming more aggressive. And Ukraine, which also borders Belarus, said it would …

Belarus moves migrants and refugees away from Polish border
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus moves migrants and refugees away from Polish border

Al Jazeera  

Belarusian state media reports that migrants and refugees were moved into a heated warehouse not far from the border. A spokesperson for the Polish border guard said the camps on the frontier in western Belarus were completely empty on Thursday, which a Belarusian press officer confirmed, the Reuters news agency reported. Germany, EU reject Lukashenko proposal Meanwhile, the European Commission …

Tensions continue to rise at the Poland-Belarus border as leaders clash
3 years, 1 month ago

Tensions continue to rise at the Poland-Belarus border as leaders clash

ABC  

The European Union and Belarus are locked in a stand-off over migrants that has come against a backdrop of tensions between the West and Minsk's backer Moscow. Key points: Since the summer, thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East, have flocked to Belarus to try to enter Europe through neighbouring EU member states Poland, Latvia or Lithuania Around 4,000 …

Poland-Belarus migrant crisis: Where does the EU stand?
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland-Belarus migrant crisis: Where does the EU stand?

Al Jazeera  

The bloc is failing to unify because of political disagreements, according to experts. The bloc has accused Belarus of “weaponising” migrants – luring in people from the Middle East to dump them at the EU’s borders, to retaliate against targeted EU sanctions. Speaking to journalists before a recent EU foreign ministers’ meeting, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis suggested making Minsk …

Belarus-Poland border: Migrant camps cleared at border as first repatriation flight leaves for Iraq
3 years, 1 month ago

Belarus-Poland border: Migrant camps cleared at border as first repatriation flight leaves for Iraq

CNN  

Bruzgi-Kuźnica border region, Belarus CNN — Makeshift migrant camps at a checkpoint on the Belarus-Poland border, where thousands had amassed in recent weeks, were cleared by Belarusian authorities on Thursday, ending a months-long standoff that has ratcheted up tensions in the region. Seven thousand migrants – mostly from the Middle East – are still in Belarus, including about 2,000 at …

An Engineered Migration Crisis On The Belarus-Poland Border : Consider This from NPR : NPR
3 years, 1 month ago

An Engineered Migration Crisis On The Belarus-Poland Border : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

How A Dictator Engineered A Migration Crisis At The Belarus-Poland Border Enlarge this image toggle caption Oksana Manchuk/TASS via Getty Images Oksana Manchuk/TASS via Getty Images Migrants from faraway countries are stuck in Belarus, just across its border with Poland. EU leaders say Lukashenko and his backers in Russia are 'weaponizing' migration in retaliation for sanctions placed on Belarus last …

Poland-Belarus border: ‘People are dying in the forest’
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland-Belarus border: ‘People are dying in the forest’

Al Jazeera  

Hajnówka, Poland – When Yousef*, a 48-year-old teacher from Damascus, Syria, heard through word of mouth that it was now possible to safely cross into the European Union via the Belarus-Poland border, he saw an opportunity. The European Commission has described Lukashenko’s strategy of luring migrants and refugees to the border with false promises of safe passage to the EU …

Russia has ‘nothing to do with’ Poland-Belarus border crisis, Putin insists
3 years, 1 month ago

Russia has ‘nothing to do with’ Poland-Belarus border crisis, Putin insists

CNN  

Kuznica, Poland CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Saturday that Russia has “absolutely nothing to do with” the ongoing crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, where thousands of people are stranded in desperate conditions. Ramil Nasibulin/Belta/AFP/Getty Images Syrian man found dead Meanwhile, thousands of people remain stuck between Poland and Belarus in conditions the United Nations has called “catastrophic.” Desperate …

Russia deploys paratroopers to Belarus border region amid fears of conflict
3 years, 1 month ago

Russia deploys paratroopers to Belarus border region amid fears of conflict

Daily Mail  

America has warned Vladimir Putin will be making a 'serious mistake' if he invades Ukraine after the Russian president provoked the West by deploying troops in Belarus and sending bombers over the North Sea. Elsewhere today: The EU said it is alarmed by Russian military activities close to Ukraine, is watching the situation closely and 'looking at further steps' along …

Live updates: Belarus-Poland border crisis traps thousands in ‘catastrophic’ conditions
3 years, 1 month ago

Live updates: Belarus-Poland border crisis traps thousands in ‘catastrophic’ conditions

CNN  

Migrants sit by a fire near the Poland-Belarus border on Wednesday, November 10. Here’s what else you need to know: Migrants are trapped in terrible conditions: The situation at the border remains fluid, with at least 800 people currently camped out in a makeshift camp on the Belarusian side of the closed Kuznica border crossing, Polish authorities told CNN on …

Poland’s far right demands strong borders in Belarus crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland’s far right demands strong borders in Belarus crisis

Associated Press  

WARSAW, Poland — Thousands marched in Warsaw on Thursday to mark Poland’s Independence Day, led by far-right groups calling for strong borders, while its troops blocked hundreds of new attempts by migrants to enter the country illegally from neighboring Belarus in a tense standoff. The U.N. Security Council discussed the crisis privately but took no action, though six of its …

Poland-Belarus border: What you need to know about the crisis
3 years, 1 month ago

Poland-Belarus border: What you need to know about the crisis

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of migrants and refugees are stranded along the Belarus border with Poland amid a raging geopolitical row. Months earlier, the EU and the United States penalised Lukashenko’s government for cracking down on dissent after a disputed August 2020 election which handed the 67-year-old a sixth term and provoked mass anti-government protests. Angered by the toughened measures, Lukashenko hit back …

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