The governing Law and Justice party’s tough stance on migrants seeking to enter the E.U. from Belarus has lifted its popularity, which had taken blows from Covid and rising inflation.
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How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe
Social media worsened a migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland and helped smugglers profit off desperate people trying to reach Europe.
Limping and Penniless, Iraqis Deported From Belarus Face Bleak Futures
Hundreds of desperate Iraqis are being sent home after becoming political pawns in Belarus’s quarrel with its European Union neighbors.
Belarus Clears Migrant Camp, Easing Border Standoff With Poland
Throngs of people, mainly from the Mideast, who had been living in freezing conditions on the border, have been moved to a giant warehouse. Their fate is uncertain.
Elusive Migrants Leave Haunting Traces in Polish Forests
The migrants, themselves are elusive, but they leave behind evidence of the lives they left behind, and of their desperate bids to reach the European Union.
Risk for Leader of Belarus: Migrants He Lured May Want to Stay
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, whom the E.U. accuses of engineering a migrant crisis on the border with Poland, could face a serious headache if asylum seekers try to stay in his country.
How the Belarus Standoff Is Unlike Recent Migrant Crises
The images at the Belarus-Poland border look familiar, but this emergency has little in common with previous waves of people from Syria, Myanmar and Afghanistan.
Beyond the Freezing Forest, a Green Light at the Window for Migrants
An unofficial network of local residents, activists and volunteer medics in Poland has been working to support those who have made it across from Belarus in bitter conditions.
Covid Rules for Beijing Olympics Force Injured Athlete to Fly Home on Cargo Plane
A Polish luger, Mateusz Sochowicz, was told that coronavirus restrictions prevented him from boarding a commercial flight for another two weeks.
The Poland Belarus Border Crisis, Explained
The situation at the Belarus-Poland border is unlike recent immigration crises.