Thousands of migrants are trapped on the Belarus/Poland border. The asylum seekers from the Middle East have clashed with border police as even more arrive desperate to be let into the European Union.
But is the crisis being manufactured by Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko? His critics say he’s created the problem to make life difficult for EU nations who say he rigged last year’s presidential elections.
Tatsiana Kulakevich is Professor specialising in Eastern Europe at the University of South Florida; and was born and raised in Belarus before moving to the US. Tatsiana takes us through the history of the build-up to the crisis, and what’s expected to happen to the thousands trapped in an international standoff as a bitterly cold winter sets in.
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