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After the accession of Western Belarus to the BSSR on October 15, 1939, the border detachments of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the BSSR was tasked to guard the Belarusian section of the border with Germany, and on June 21, 1940, also the Lithuanian border. The former Soviet-Polish border was not fully dismantled and ...
A group of migrants on the Latvia–Belarus border in February 2022. On 4 August 2021, it was reported that the situation on the Latvia–Belarus border was still relatively peaceful with only four registered incidents of illegal border crossing and a total of 27 third-country nationals detained in the whole 2021. [210]
The representative office of German business in the Republic of Belarus (the Chamber of Commerce Abroad) exists in Minsk. [14] In 2021, Germany was Belarus' fifth most important trading partner. [15] In 2021 German exports to Belarus were $1.77 billion of goods, led by cars, with Belarus exports valued at $958m with wood as the main product.
A Polish border guard looks east into Belarus at the crossing point Połowce-Pieszczatka in Polowce, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Lorne Cooke)
Fears that the authoritarian leader of Belarus is using migrants and refugees as a “hybrid warfare” tactic to undermine the security of the European Union are putting new strains on some of ...
The territory of modern-day Belarus was fully within its borders. Position of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Eastern Europe until 1434 In the 13th century, the fragile unity of Kievan Rus' disintegrated due to nomadic incursions from Asia , which climaxed with the Mongol sacking of Kiev in 1240, leaving a geopolitical vacuum in the region.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's government announced plans to impose tighter controls at all of the country's land borders in what it called an attempt to tackle irregular migration and protect the ...
Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million.