Actually not a lot to report. I've been away from here for a while. That's because I've had a crazy love affair but that's none of yallss business. Quit a job that, believe it or not, had everything to do with accounting for Indiana-based elderly homes (from here!). But maybe if you wanna know how shit's presented in the media in this part of the world.. Belarus-wise, it's life as usual, which is a bit crazy to me how relaxed everyone's is, but yea.

E: Anyway, the only reason I moved to Belarus is so that my clock matches the "Time in Moscow" on the front page here. Which also means I gotta got to bed soon. But if I don't reply now I promise to reply tomorrow.

  • Yanqui_UXO [any]
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    2 years ago

    There's no relationship with Poland right now basically. They're the main sponsors of the US politics re Belarus, so it's been bad. But re migrants specifically, Poland has built a wall, useless as any wall, a media stunt that costs money. It's not in the news anywhere anymore, but the migrant issue has not gone away. Basically, the EU used to pay Belarus to catch illegal migrants before. Before all the shit hit the fan two years ago. Then they stopped and stopped all communications with Belarusian border patrol. I can't really corrobarate this, but from what I have heard, before, Belarusian border patrol used to get bonuses for catching illegal migrants to the EU, but when the conflict and the sanctions started, that stopped. So from the western media perspective this has been presented as Belarus helping these migrants cross the border. From this side, there is just no prevention anymore because the EU payments have stopped.