Migration crisis: "Russia tries to appear as a firefighter while blowing on the embers"
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Thousands of migrants have been trying to cross from Belarus into EU member Poland for months Oksana MANCHUK BELTA / AFP
By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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The migration crisis at the gates of Europe, on the border between Poland and Belarus.
While Brussels must announce new sanctions against Minsk during the day, the Lukashenko regime seems to want to calm things down a bit, it says today it does not want a conflict at its border and is currently working on the return of migrants to their country original.
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Russia, on the other hand, is giving it another layer. It is wrong to place all the responsibility for the crisis on President Lukashenko, the Kremlin spokesman said this morning.
So what is the role of Russia and Vladimir Putin in this affair?
Some answers with Cyrille Bret, lecturer at Sciences-Po Paris, co-author of the Eurasia Prospective blog and member of the Notre Europe Jacques Delors Institute.
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