Russians Are Unraveling Before Our Eyes
A wave of fresh humiliations has the Kremlin struggling to control the narrative.
Someday, soldiers hope to return home and topple Lukashenko.
A Russian defeat in Ukraine could send Belarus’s dictator packing.
Signs are growing that an invasion from the north could be imminent.
For hundreds who fled Minsk’s oppression, Ukraine’s fight has become theirs.
On the Polish-Lithuanian border, the West must respond to Russia’s actual capabilities rather than making assumptions about its intent.
The State Department also authorizes nonessential personnel to leave the embassy in Moscow if they choose.
The changes, certain to pass, will let Russia house nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil.
Russian troops have used Belarus to stage attacks and seize Chernobyl.
Russian forces are in Belarus for military exercises. Will they ever leave?
Minsk is cautious of being used as a staging ground for an attack on Ukraine.
After months of closure, Foreign Policy gets an authorized glimpse into the militarized Polish-Belarusian border zone.
Brussels likes to ostracize the Polish government, but Warsaw has just done the entire continent a favor.
By focusing on an external enemy, the Law and Justice Party is trying to transform its image in Brussels and beyond.
The crisis is a window into the pitfalls of prevailing migration politics.
Moscow’s military buildup is raising eyebrows in Washington as Belarus ups the ante in its standoff with the EU.
The migrant crisis on the EU’s eastern border is the result of an incoherent and inhumane European migration policy ripe for exploitation by autocrats.
The “weaponization” of migrants and growing provocations leave Warsaw few options.