Belarusian borders closed: "The underlying reason is to make Belarus hermetic to any influence from abroad"
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Despite the Covid-19 epidemic, rallies continue in Belarus to protest the results of the presidential election, as in Minsk on December 13, 2020. AP
By: Florent Guignard
8 min
Belarus's land borders are closed to all nationals of the country from December 20.
The measure was announced ten days ago, officially because of the Covid-19 epidemic.
For the opposition, this decision has nothing to do with the coronavirus.
RFI analyzes it with André Filler, professor at Paris-8 and at the French Institute of Geopolitics, author of "The impossible Latvian nation: study of the places of a post-Soviet natio-genesis", published by the University Press of Strasbourg.
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