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  • Andrei Soldatov
    Andrei Soldatov “The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.” 12 minutes ago
  • Dmitry Peskov
    Dmitry Peskov “All war crimes [committed] by the Kyiv regime are thoroughly documented. We were well aware of these crimes. And, of course, we will make sure that those behind these crimes are duly punished.” 19 minutes ago
  • Timothy Snyder
    Timothy Snyder “The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.” 26 minutes ago
  • Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin “We have no aggressive intentions towards these states. The idea that we will attack some other country - Poland, the Baltic States, and the Czechs are also being scared - is complete nonsense. It's just drivel. If they supply F-16s, and they are talking about this and are apparently training pilots, this will not change the situation on the battlefield. And we will destroy the aircraft just as we destroy today tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment, including multiple rocket launchers. Of course, if they will be used from airfields in third countries, they become for us legitimate targets, wherever they might be located.” 29 minutes ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Bolstering Ukraine's air defence and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are plentiful around the world, are still not covering the skies of Kharkiv and other cities.” 19 hours ago
  • Ana Piquer
    Ana Piquer “Reducing gang violence by replacing it with state violence cannot be a success. The Salvadoran government had adopted disproportionate measures, denying, minimising and concealing human rights violations. Bukele had created a false illusion that he had found the magic formula to solve the very complex problems of violence and criminality in a seemingly simple way. The international community must respond in a robust, articulate and forceful manner, condemning any model of public security that is based on human rights violations.” 23 hours ago
  • Xi Jinping
    Xi Jinping “China is building a first-class business environment that is market oriented. In traditional areas like trade and new ones such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should become boosters for each other's development, not obstructions on each other.” 23 hours ago
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
    Benjamin Netanyahu “I thought the US decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move. The worst part about it was that it encouraged Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas. It [the cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by Israeli top aides] was a message first and foremost to Hamas: 'Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work'. I hope they got the message.” 23 hours ago
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Belarus

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“They [terrorists] could not enter Belarus in any way. They understood that. And so they turned around and went to the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. As soon as the heads of state received information from special services that the car transporting the terrorists was moving towards Bryansk, an agreement was reached that Belarus would block its section of the alleged criminal movement, while Russia would block its own.”

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President of Belarus
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“They [Wagner fighters] are asking to go West, ask me for permission … to go on a trip to Warsaw, to Rzeszow. But of course, I am keeping them in central Belarus, like we agreed. We are controlling what is happening [with Wagner].”

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President of Belarus
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“Putin and I will decide and introduce here, if necessary, strategic weapons, and they must understand this, the scoundrels abroad, who today are trying to blow us up from inside and outside. We will stop at nothing to protect our countries, our state and their peoples.”

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President of Belarus
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“We must stop, reach an agreement, end this mess, operation and war in Ukraine. Let's stop and then we will figure out how to go on living … There's no need to go further. Further lies the abyss of nuclear war. There's no need to go there.”

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President of Belarus
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“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn't a war. Thanks to yours truly, me that is, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have begun. But why is Ukraine, on whose territory a war in effect is ongoing … why is Ukraine not interested in these negotiations?”

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President of Belarus
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“I warned you that they would push us into this operation, into this war. There's nothing for us to do there, and we haven't been invited. I want to emphasise again … We are not going to become involved in this operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine.”

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President of Belarus
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“At today's security council meeting, Lukashenko showed what looks like an actual invasion map. It shows Ukraine military facilities destroyed by missiles from Belarus, attacks directions (everything agrees except Odessa-Transnistria). Also, Ukraine is divided into 4 sectors.”

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Belarusian journalist
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“Not a single [Russian] soldier or a single unit of military equipment will stay on the territory of Belarus after the drills with Russia. Neither Moscow, nor Minsk, nor Kiev wants war.”

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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
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“The sanctions on potash are limited in scope to only about 20 percent of Belarusian potash exports, and many EU countries like Belgium want to see even those sanctions lifted. Those EU countries importing Belarusian potash (although in small amounts compared to world volumes where Belarus is among the largest players) are not ready to see even minimal profitability losses as they are forced to buy from more expensive suppliers.”

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Research fellow at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center
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“I don't believe we will see any stronger economic sanctions, unless Lukashenka steps over certain red lines. We are seeing now that countries like Italy, Hungary, Austria, and Belgium oppose tougher economic sanctions because it will hurt them. Lukashenka was lucky in the sense that Belarus was able to sell goods that in the past few years he was unable to sell and at much higher prices.”

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Policy analyst at the Brussels-based European Council on Foreign Relations
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“Knowing what is imported from Belarus in general, they are mainly goods whose prices have risen very, very rapidly during 2021. They are timber, fertilizer, and fuels. Even if, in terms of physical volume, imports remained unchanged, the amounts could indeed be much higher last year, in terms of money.”

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Economist at the Luminor Latvija bank
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“The regime's draft constitution doesn't give Belarusians a real choice. It will let the dictator secure power, control the situation through the artificial All-Belarusian People's Assembly, and avoid prosecution. A new presidential election is the only solution to the crisis.”

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Human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate
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“Marfa Rabkova's case epitomizes the horrors currently faced by human rights defenders and the wider civil society in Belarus. Over the last 18 months, Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government has effectively outlawed the country's entire human rights community by imprisoning dozens of human rights activists under spurious charges, closing vast numbers of NGOs and arbitrarily detaining hundreds of peaceful protesters. Marfa Rabkova is facing up to 20 years in prison amid an onslaught of obviously baseless, politically-motivated charges when all she has done is stand up for human rights. The secrecy that surrounds her prosecution, however, means we may never know the details of what she has been officially accused of. The Belarusian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release not only Marfa Rabkova, but all of her detained colleagues from Viasna and other activists that continue to be arbitrarily detained throughout the country. The relentless persecution of civil society groups in Belarus must end.”

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Director of Amnesty International Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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“We won't only hope. We will work together on your dream. If you want to go westwards, we won't detain you, choke you, beat you. It's up to you. Go through. Go. We won't in any circumstances detain you, tie your hands and load you on planes to send you home if you don't want that.”

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President of Belarus
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“For Minsk, stopping the sanctions pressure and EU cooperation on migration issues are a baseline for it to resume delivering on previous agreements. That's a matter of principle that Minsk won't compromise on.”

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Director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations
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“We are witnessing the reluctance of many European leaders at making any kind of deal with Lukashenko. I don't see the EU funding Belarus to keep migrants like in other cases.”

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Migration policy fellow at the European University Institute (EUI)
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“We need to get through to the Poles, to every Pole, and show them that we're not barbarians, that we don't want confrontation. We don't need it. Because we understand that if we go too far, war is unavoidable.”

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President of Belarus
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“Probably, [a] solution could be.. [for the] EU [to] accept President Lukashenko as a legitimate president, and then Lukashenko could start negotiations with the EU just to defuse the crisis and to have a compromise.”

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Political scientist from the Russian Academy of Sciences
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“Maybe someone helped them. I won't even look into this. I think that's absolutely possible. We're Slavs. We have hearts. Our troops know the migrants are going to Germany. I told them I'm not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on I still won't stop them, because they're not coming to my country, they're going to yours. That's what I meant. But I didn't invite them here. And to be honest, I don't want them to go through Belarus.”

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President of Belarus
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“It's not a typical migration or humanitarian crisis. Because if you go to the core, the decision to escape or leave the place of residence and seek protection or shelter somewhere else is a spontaneous decision made at the level of a family or small community. Here, there is nothing that is spontaneous. It's all facilitated by the government of Belarus. We're going to have the first snow by Tuesday next week. As of Monday, the temperatures will go below zero during the night. So the conditions will be very difficult. Nobody can survive such conditions in a tent. People are on the road for many weeks and they are already weakened and sick and have different cold-related diseases. If snow comes, it will be impossible to wander through the forests. I'm really concerned about that and in this case, hypothermia and frostbite will really skyrocket up to a time when the movement stops.”

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Head of the Polish Centre for International Aid and UN expert in crisis management
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“Practically all the patients I dealt with suffered from hypothermia, dehydration, also pneumonia, stomachaches, wounds. Many people had signs of beatings on their bodies. Every case I had was tragic. It's impossible to describe what one feels when they see people in such a condition. The case that shook me the most was a young boy, a 22-year-old Kurd from Iraq. He was completely unconscious, he had a very high sugar level, he didn't eat anything that day and only drank raw water from a plastic bottle. When someone takes insulin, they have to eat properly after each dose. He had nothing to eat so he asked a Belarusian guard for a piece of bread. The guard sold it to him for 40 dollars. Each story is a tragedy on its own. Working and listening to these people is hard. They only ask for one thing: please don't let us return to Belarus.”

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Specialist in internal medicine from Erbil who has lived in Poland since 1980
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“With von der Leyen calling it a hybrid attack, I think that's exactly what Lukashenko was hoping for. Even though we are talking about a few refugees and migrants trying to get access to Europe, the language is all about war stemming from political panic. The moment you start referring to refugees and migrants as bargaining chips and as weapons of people being instrumentalised, it strips away their agency and dehumanises people.”

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Head of the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) monitoring group
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“We are working on this with the Belarusian authorities. The number is fluctuating, because people are stuck on the Belarusian border with Poland or Lithuania and so far they have not been authorised to go back to Minsk by the Belarusian authorities.”

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Iraq's consul for Russia and Belarus
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“Today we are going to approve a new package of sanctions. They will target airlines and travel agencies involved in this illegal push of migrants.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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“The (Belarus) embassy of course knows that this person is not going for tourism. What kind of tourism would that be, to book a plane ticket for $800 and get a visa for $1,250? They know that these people are coming to go to Europe.”

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Iraqi based in Ankara who provides travel services to would-be tourists and migrants
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“We will give the green light to extending the legal framework of our sanctions against Belarus so that it can be applied to everyone who participates in smuggling migrants to this country. Executives at airlines and travel agencies could be hit with travel bans and asset freezes in the EU. About 30 Belarusian government officials thought to be involved in the crisis could also be targeted with sanctions.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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“Predictably, he [Alexander Lukashenko] didn't consult the Kremlin. He is again trying to hide behind [Russia]. The crisis on the border will be solved by dismantling dictatorship in Minsk.”

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Senior Advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
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“Lukashenko's rhetoric, the visa policy and the sudden influx of migrants this summer all point to the involvement of the Belarusian state and travel agencies.”

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Senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations
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“The Belarus police guided us to the forest, then pointed directions to lead us inside the forest to keep us away from the official border crossing.”

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Iraqi Kurd stranded on the Belarusian side of the Polish border
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“We can see from our risk analysis that all the factors that triggered this crisis are still in place and that things are not moving or not deescalating...We have to be ready to have to face this situation for a long time.”

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Executive Director of the European Union's border guard agency Frontex
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“We heat Europe, and they are still threatening us that they'll shut the borders. And what if we cut off [the transit of] natural gas to them? So I would recommend that the leadership of Poland, Lithuanian and other brainless people to think before they speak.”

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President of Belarus
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“This is not a bilateral issue of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. This is a challenge to the whole of the European Union. And this is not a migration crisis. This is the attempt of an authoritarian regime to try to destabilise its democratic neighbours. This will not succeed. We know the patterns. We are used to that, by seeing how there was the attempt to influence our democratic elections. We see the cyberattacks. We see the misinformation. Now, we have this hybrid attack by instrumentalising migrants at the EU-Belarus border. And we have to protect our democracies from this kind of cynical geopolitical power play.”

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President of the European Commission
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“Belarus' regime escalates the border crisis - migrants are pushed to EU border by armed men. The migrant smuggling, violence & ill-treatment must stop.”

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Human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate
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“We have an aggressive regime, Lukashenka, that is actually pushing migrants...to the European border to destabilize the European Union. This is an act of aggression. What we are seeing now is a desperate Lukashenka. This is a regime that has denied its own people free and fair elections. This is a regime that is putting political opposition in jail.”

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EU Commissioner for Home Affairs
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“Those 28 union road maps should be understood as a whole, comprehensive annex to the union-state treaty of 1999. After the signing of all agreements Belarus will still remain a separate country, formally independent but integrated into the Russian economy and law system on an unprecedented scale.”

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Senior fellow at the Warsaw-based OSW Center for Eastern Studies
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