Belarus update

Since this past summer, Belarus has been sending Syrian and Iraqi migrants across its national borders into Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, all of them EU countries. The Lukashenko regime in Belarus has also continued to clamp down on political dissent, this week raiding one of the few independent news outlets, Novy Chas. Former Belarus journalist Franak Viačorka updates host Marco Werman from Vilnius, Lithuania, where he works as senior adviser to Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. 

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