Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya claims the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, is a “criminal” who’s weaponizing migrants to pressure the U.S. to lift sanctions. Those same migrants on the Belarus-Poland border were met with water cannons and tear gas from Polish authorities. Christiane asks Poland’s deputy foreign minister a simple q ... Show More
Nov 2021
How Belarus Manufactured a Border Crisis
<p>For three decades, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, a former Soviet nation in Eastern Europe, ruled with an iron fist. But pressure has mounted on him in the past year and a half. After a contested election in 2020, the European Union enacted sanctions and refused to ... Show More
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